Just from my Windows perspective——
Window’s Media Player uses lots of resources but it doesn’t keep on trying to get me to deploy it to open up all my audio and video files. But that’s what quicktime did and same for real player. Plus I could not get these off the windows start up list. I would delete them off the Win Start Up list but they would worm their way back on.
This is how it was 4-5 years ago. That’s how it was. The two are banned for good so perhaps they have changed
And Windows Media Player does not insist on being on the program start up list. Those programs churning in the background in a 3 watt mode
Window’s Media Player uses lots of resources but it doesn’t keep on trying to get me to deploy it to open up all my audio and video files.
Well, after Windows stole the Apple code and tried to incorporate some of the guts of QuickTime into their media code on their platform, and "got caught red-handed" -- they were never able to produce good code again, and they simply lost out to QuickTime...
But, that's typical for Windows... stealing from everyone else. Only in this case, they got caught red-handed and they had to "pay" for their crime, doncha know ... :-)