Just a word of caution for the world: if your installation of Windows XP is, shall we say, less than legal, and you get a popup while using Windows Media Player that says there is a security update to be installed... DO NOT INSTALL IT. Although they don’t tell you this, the “security update” is actually Windows Media Player 11. After you have installed WMP11, you will have to verify your Windows installation to use it (sure, they could have just as easily checked this beforehand, but that would be nice). And if you have System Restore turned off (and what self-respecting geek doesn’t?), you won’t be able to go back to version 10.
I understand that a person who is using the software illegally has little room to claim that Microsoft is wronging him by doing this. However, the method is pretty underhanded—they claim there is a security update, which is the one thing that Microsoft has said they won’t require Windows validation for, and something that they’ve been trying for the last six years to teach everyone to do automatically. Not cool, Microsoft. Not cool.
December 9, 4:58 am
Bill & Melinda Gates VS. Steve Jobs (investigate charitable donations)
December 10, 11:09 am
I would like to comment but I am busy installing the latest Windows Media update (11) on the computer at my beet farm. That way Jim will think I am hip.
That is all.
Dwight Schrute
Assistant Regional Mgr.
Dunder Mifflin