Windows Media Player 11 Download Official

  • Thread starter Thread starter Andre Da Costa [Extended64]
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Hi Andre,
Downloaded WMP11-very nice!!!! Seems that everyone else in here is
getting access to Vista builds,I see Jason did! Good for him! Guess I'll
bide my time and wait-did register months ago for the beta. Oh well, can't
wait to play!! Love my new laptop-Thanks for all the advice about hardware
for Vista. Will definitely have questions when it's available.

Jeff
 
So I have it installed on one of my XP boxes, and I gotta say...whatever
happened to MS being so hardcore on consistent UIs?

I now have MP11's Vista look running side-by-side with XP's Fisher Price
look. Great combo. Even with the OS in Windows Classic mode MP11 still
uses the Vista look.

One of my biggest Vista gripes about its UI in general has always been that
it's *very* hard for a novice to tell which window currently has focus. Now
MS wants to backport Vista's UI to XP?

Years of MS's own usability studies out the window, I say.
 
Jeff,

It was pretty nice of Andre to share this link and I have to agree, WMP11 is
awesome. I also think that Vista is really sweet. The public release
should be available soon.

As far as me getting invited, sorry to say I wasn't. I decided to go
purchase one of Microsoft's programs that provides access to the beta.
 
Andre said:
http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windowsmedia/download/AllDownloads.aspx?displang=en&qstechnology=

No XP Professional x64 currently, available languages are English, Chinese
and Arabic

Note: Please copy the equal sign also into your browser address bar. :)
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This link works as well (doesn't require you to remember an equal, and is
compatible with the clickers personal language settings vs forcing
english) -
http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windowsmedia/download/AllDownloads.aspx
 
Andre said:
http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windowsmedia/download/AllDownloads.aspx?displang=en&qstechnology=

No XP Professional x64 currently, available languages are English, Chinese
and Arabic

Note: Please copy the equal sign also into your browser address bar. :)
Click to expand...

I should stress that this is only an official BETA download. Lots of
folks downloaded the v10 BETA and had many problems with their PC as a
result. I've already seen one report of someone unable to install this beta.

So if you can't deal with the consequences of BETA software, DON'T TOUCH IT.
 
It won't install on one of my PCs, but installs fine on another. I can
live without it on the one it doesn't install on though, so not fussed :)

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Yeah, thats why I posted it here. It won't install on my PC either, an error
pops when I try to launch it WMDRM error something. I had to use System
Restore to remove it too.
 
It isn't just WMP11 with the Vista interface. All new things for XP have the
Vista interface like IE7, Defender, OneCare, Office 2007. So the question is
will Microsoft update the XP interface?
 
I have installed WMP11 on my XP computer. It's overall good, but I've got a
few minor complaints. First, I've noticed *some* of the visualizations
aren't as fast. Bars & Waves and Blazing Colors to name two in particular.
They're almost as slow as they were in Windows Media Player 8 and 7.
Another slight issue is when I hit the play button on my keyboard, WMP11
hung for 10 seconds (the whole program was freezing up) or so before it
snapped out of it. It's only done that once so far. Besides that, I
haven't found much of any problems yet. That would probably get an overall
higher rating in my books than WMP10 beta did. I got rid of the WMP10 beta
because I disliked it so much. I still wasn't extremely wild about what
WMP10 ended up being, but it was much better than the beta. I liked the
looks of WMP10 but the issues... I had good luck with the WMP9 beta way
back when 3 or 3 1/2 years ago. I do like the partial Vista interface used
on WMP11.

Specs:
Asus K8N motherboard
AMD Semron 64 2800+ OC'd to 2GHz. (Using a 250FSB instead of a 200FSB)
768MB of RAM
80GB IDE HD
120GB IDE HD
Ati Radeon X1600 PRO
Lite On 16x DVD drive
Memorex (Lite On) 52x32x52 CD-RW drive
Creative Audigy soundcard
400-watt power supply (my new ThermalTake 430-watt PSU will be here
tomorrow)
XP SP2
 
Nope :o) XP's pretty much a closed book now - has been for some time. The
only thing their really using from it is to create a new UMPC OS that runs
on them.

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XP is not a closed book, it still has another 2 years to go (2008). This was
also extended for Home Edition.
 
Andre said:
XP is not a closed book, it still has another 2 years to go (2008). This was
also extended for Home Edition.
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Its support life-cycle runs through then, but I can't imagine there will
be much new feature work going on in it apart from Vista compatibility
issues which I guess will get treated in a future service pack.
 
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