well they're not limiting, they're just not providing. All the article
really says is that they're going to push for support of their own format
using their own products, which makes sense. Their products currently just
play back mp3's, which they still will. They're actually adding features,
by allowing windows media player to *make* mp3's, but at 56kbps so they
sound pretty bad.
And, you can still fully customize a Windows install so it only installs
the basics. I just think it's funny that companies think that people will
always use a standard that's provided by a big company, instead of the
standard that's already being used by everyone else. Mac and Linux people
aren't going to start using WMA any time soon :D
They're still providing an OS with features; they're just trying to make
people use their own software instead of install someone else's
software. The claims that "the old stuff won't work" is valid with any new
OS - not everything is backwards compatible. New ripping and encoding
software will come out though, it just won't be supported by
microsoft. But, as anyone who codes software knows, you don't need consent
from the OS manufacturer to write software for their OS.
cheers,
/derek
At 11:11 PM 4/12/2001 -0500, you wrote:
quoted 15 lines That shit's really disturbing. For a company like microsoft to limit> That shit's really disturbing. For a company like microsoft to limit
> what it's
>users can do, is completely fucked. That screws 80% of users and is quite
>telling
>what priority the people using their OS have to ms. okay everyone, Boycott
>microsoft...
>
> STAND UP FOR YOUR MP3's@!%!%#@
>
> cdin
>
>
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