http://www.tecca.com/news/2011/06/28/os-windows-xp-market-share/
Because some software won't work with Windows2000?
Won’t Hollywood be surprised when, after making sure no one can access their tripe without paying, there won’t be anyone left who wants to see it.
Ping for tech list.
Windows 8.... Simple .... Don’t purchase it.
“you’re going to have to pay extra for software that will let you play it”
LOL! Free VLC rules the market, he knows it, it would cost nothing to show a little class and acknowledge it.
Hmm, if WMP is optional Windows 8 has at least one big improvement...
Another reason to sick with Windows 7.
Microsoft shoots themselves in the foot again.
Not really Microsoft’s fault. DVD playback requires royalties for MPEG-2 and Dolby Digital AC-3. Microsoft doesn’t feel like paying those royalties anymore, especially with the rise of streaming video. Users of Windows 8 can buy and install their own DVD players if they want. The VLC player is a free alternative that can handle DVDs.
I have yet to find a media format it won't play. And it's FREE.
You will just have to use another downloaded program I guess
Won’t have the problem cuz I won’t have Windows 8.
BWAHAHAHA Ever heard of VLC, GOM player or MEDIA PLAYER CLASSIC which is free?
And yes, I have 2 emergency laptops which still have Windows XP, and I enjoy them.
Personally I don’t mind this. What bothers me is the idiotic phone interface on a desktop computer. Maybe they should bundle a 320 x 480 resolution monitor.
This is actually a smart move on their part. A good chunk of the DVDs I’ve put in my computer CAME with their own software. And almost all the DVD playing software out there is better than WMP which was never really designed to handle a media type that had it’s own menus and things. Try to watch a DVD using JUST WMP, you get to that list of vobs and it’s good luck to you. Don’t reinvent the wheel, nobody on the planet has ever bought Windows so they could use WMP to watch DVDs.
Bastards!
Doesn't matter either, all I use now is VLC, but *Bastards* just the same to Microsoft.
I haven’t used the crappy and annoying WMP in over a decade.
Like others have already said, there’s VLC and other software that blows WMP out of the water.
Another vote for VLC...
Freeware that works better than MS media ever did...
The vast majority of blu-rays are available as a combo pack with a DVD copy, Blu-ray copy and a digital copy, all for about $5 more than a standard DVD. I have digital copies of every movie I’ve bought in the last year, and they were all part of the purchase, most for $20 for the combo pack during the week of release from Target or Amazon.