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Microsoft Exec Denies Impeding Rival Media Players | |
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| Time: 17:59 EST/22:59 GMT | News Source: Associated Press | Posted By: Alex Harris | ||
A Microsoft Corp. executive on Thursday denied that the company used its Windows operating system monopoly to thwart rival audio and video players, as alleged in its landmark antitrust case. Will Poole, a vice president in charge of Microsoft's Windows New Media Platform Division, told federal court that RealNetworks Inc. was the dominant media-playing software despite its complaints about Microsoft. "The inclusion of multimedia technology in Windows has not impeded RealNetworks' ability to create competing media players that run very well on Windows and to distribute and promote those media players broadly to users," Poole said in written testimony. | ||
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| #1 By 2332 (129.21.145.80) at 5/2/2002 8:28:19 PM |
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Man... both Real and Quicktime suck pretty hard monkey.
But, if you wanna use em, have fun! :-) |
| #2 By 116 (66.68.173.16) at 5/2/2002 8:32:12 PM |
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I'm with you there RMD!
WE shelled out the bucks for Quicktime Pro and that was just a waste of money. Not worth it at all. Abou the only thing it did is remove the nag screen before you run it. What looks really cool and I eagerly anticipate is the Corona stuff. |
| #3 By 20 (24.243.51.87) at 5/2/2002 8:52:10 PM |
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Oh come on, Real couldn't write itself out of a wet paper bag. Their software sucked WORSE on MacOS than it did on Windows. Is Apple involved in the conspiracy as well?
Just like Novell, Real is trying to blame everyone else for it's problem. Now Real has turned to stealing all your personal information and selling it to as many people as possible. If you're use Real *.* you're an idiot because your name, phone number, email, and probably everything else is floating around everyone's desks right now. |
| #4 By 135 (209.180.28.6) at 5/2/2002 9:05:18 PM |
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I don't know. I actually tend to prefer Quicktime streams. A problem I keep having with WMP for streams is that they start off strong... say 200Kbps, but then slowly degrade until it's reporting about 5Kbps. Makes no sense, as my DSL supports 1Mbps downstream.
Doesn't happen all the time, but it's fairly consistent. Doesn't seem to be site dependent, but rather which particular piece of content I might select. That is, if I'm trying to view something on says news.com 2 of them will work, 4 of them won't. |
| #5 By 2459 (66.25.124.8) at 5/2/2002 10:02:00 PM |
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News.com is about the only site I have problems with. When the stream degrades, WMP isn't getting the data fast enough. It's encountering congestion somewhere. Sometimes stopping the video and replaying it fixes this for me. Do you use a router or firewall with your DSL connection, Sodablue? If so, try fowarding a couple of UDP ports and setting WMP to use those ports. This should give you better performance, but sometimes, due to UDPs unreliability, the video may show artifacts or lose sync with the audio. Generally, there's no problem, though. This post was edited by n4cer on Thursday, May 02, 2002 at 22:07. |
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