Ok boys and girls, if u have Windows Media Player 8.0 installed, which of course is not out yet, your upgrade to 7.1 could turn out to be unsuccessful. This warns Microsoft.
 In a posting to a MSDN developer list, Microsoft's Sean Alexander warns that "installing this illegal collection of files on their PCs puts their PC at risk - in terms of stability, viruses, and other potential dangers. Microsoft recommends that customers never install software that they don't know the origin of." |
So don't play with matches, children, and don't talk to (or download software from) strangers. It's an odd choice of phrase, as the 'origin' of this software is stamped all over the binaries. It's the same software thousands of XP beta testers are using.
Several sites received warnings about their posting of WMP 8.0.
However many people are saying that the new WMP 8.0 is much much better than WMP 7.x.
"We have found though that installing WMP8 has fixed a lot of broken installs of WMP7 (caused by various things, such as delivering too many licenses or accidentally deleting the wrong files in the DRM folder). Installing WMP7.1 over the top of these didn't fix it," writes one correspondent. |
Only WMP 8.0 will only be available for Windows XP and Windows 2002. If they would make it available for everyone people wouldn't have to rip it out of the source and everyone would wait for an official version...
Source: TheRegister
