Windows Media Player support to be discontinued

[orangetwist]

The company will continue to offer the current version for download. It also has announced a deal to offer for free the Flip4Mac plug-in from Telestream that will allow Mac OS X users to play Windows Media video and audio directly from Apple's QuickTime Player software.

ZDnet article [news.zdnet.com]

Hm!

[Don_Hoagie]

Works for me. Every time I have to open Windows Media Player on my Mac, I feel a little dirty. Good riddance.

[Span]

I never installed WMP on mine. Always had trouble with the thing on OS9 so I just did't want it anymore. But, I just downloaded the Flip4Mac plug-in and expected I could finally see the videos on CNN now.
But no.
I guess I have to download them and do a File > Open > CNN video...

[teelicious]

yeah...i like flip4mac but th ebrowser plug-in it does't display anything protected by windoze Digital Rights Management (DRM) (ie:CNN and BBc video). lame.