ZDNet has a story about a bizarre decision by Microsoft. Basically, if you want to use their upcoming Media Player 8, you’re going to have to upgrade to Windows XP. My question is who the heck in their right mind would want a copy of Media Player 8?
All the Media Player programs that I’ve used are excessive resource hogs (the version shipped with Windows Me literally makes working on my 400mhz laptop impossible if it accidentally gets invoked) combined with an interface that is so bad that my cat could probably put a better one together.
I don’t care if they bundle it, I just hope MS leaves a way to uninstall it.