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European court discussion moves from designing code to giving it away

Started by TLF · 10 months ago

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  • MikeT

    3 years ago

    All you need to do is look at the crap that RealMedia produces to understand why it failed to beat Windows Media. RealMedia is hands down the worst of the major formats for streaming media. I can't even count the number of times that I have heard low end RealMedia and could barely tell what was being played. Microsoft just won this one honestly by offering a product that just didn't suck.
  • scruffydan

    3 years ago

    not to mention how bloated real player became over the years.
  • V

    3 years ago

    Enough with the Microsoft antitrust cases. If they're not using subversive tactics to wipe out competition, it doesn't matter. And throwing a built in media player into Windows isn't what I call subversive. But then again, neither is adding IE. Windows gives out Moviemaker and Sound Recorder for free too, but that doesn't make a difference to the people who build the real, functional thing.

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