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Microsoft defending media player in court
« on: October 01, 2004, 12:46:43 PM »
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A European judge is hearing arguments as to whether Microsoft should be forced to remove its music and video player from its Windows system.

Now for the defence:
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Microsoft has countered that both parts of the ruling would do it irretrievable harm.

:roflmao:
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Linda Averett of Microsoft told the Court of First Instance in Luxembourg on Friday that many websites and software products would not work without the Windows Media Player.

She said that without the player, customers who buy computers with Windows "are very likely to feel deceived when they find that websites don't work".

"This is a serious problem," added Ms Averett.

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I don't know anybody who uses wmp at all :lol:
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Re: Microsoft defending media player in court
« Reply #1 on: October 01, 2004, 02:31:16 PM »
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blobrana wrote:
"Tragic accident kills Media-Player"

Nothing tragic about that "accident" :-D
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[stick with winamp5]

Already do, 5.04 is the boss :-D
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