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  • Beware Windows Media Player update - privacy concerns

    03/09/2016 1:45:08 PM PST · by CedarDave · 11 replies
    Microsoft Windows Media Player ^ | March 9, 2016 | Self
    I downloaded and installed some Windows updates yesterday after checking to hide Win 10 related updates and known phone-home privacy concerns. Though I have been running Windows 7 and the media player since receiving my machine late last summer, a WMP install note popped up requesting approval for what is either an update or new version. It came with "recommended" or "custom" setting selections. Microsoft was nice enough to tell me that "recommended" included a lot of phone-home settings to "enhance" my use. I immediately checked "custom" and unchecked about a half-dozen settings that would record or report my listening/media...
  • Microsoft shows off JPEG rival

    05/25/2006 10:29:34 AM PDT · by ShadowAce · 31 replies · 808+ views
    CNet News ^ | 24 May 2006 | Joris Evers
    SEATTLE--If it is up to Microsoft, the omnipresent JPEG image format will be replaced by Windows Media Photo. The software maker detailed the new image format Wednesday at the Windows Hardware Engineering Conference here. Windows Media Photo will be supported in Windows Vista and also be made available for Windows XP, Bill Crow, program manager for Windows Media Photo said in a presentation. "One of the biggest reasons people upgrade their PCs is digital photos," Crow said, noting that Microsoft has been in contact with printer makers, digital camera companies and other unnamed industry partners while working on Windows Media...
  • Judge: Microsoft's music player gaffe is 'concern'

    10/26/2005 8:31:30 PM PDT · by Panerai · 6 replies · 410+ views
    Cnet ^ | 10/26/2005 | Anne Broache
    WASHINGTON--A federal judge scolded Microsoft on Wednesday for devising a marketing plan that would have forced portable-music player makers to package only Windows Media Player with their products. "It seems to me that at this date, you should not be having something like this occur," U.S. District Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly said at a status conference here, adding that she found the issue "one of concern." As previously reported by CNET News.com, a recent federal court filing revealed that Microsoft initially drafted a marketing agreement with language indicating that manufacturers that signed on would be barred from supplying software other than...
  • European Court Rules Against Microsoft [It's WAR against American businesses!]

    12/22/2004 5:46:32 AM PST · by Brilliant · 62 replies · 990+ views
    AP via Yahoo! ^ | December 22, 2004 | RAF CASERT
    BRUSSELS, Belgium - A European Union court ruled Wednesday that Microsoft Corp. must immediately divulge some trade secrets to competitors and produce a version of its flagship Windows operating system stripped of the program that plays music and video. The 91-page ruling effectively thwarts Microsoft's attempt to delay, pending appeal, implementation of the EU's landmark antitrust decision in March that demanded changes in the software giant's business practices. The implications for Microsoft are huge, though the company did not immediately disclose whether it intended to offer a version of Windows without the Media Player in Europe alone or more broadly....