Media Player 11 Launched

[john]

Ok its a busy time at MS HQ, they have launched Windows Media Player 11 now, just after I deploy and update my machines and images to IE7 and think thats it for a while, here comes Billy G with WMP11! Never mind! Go get it:

http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windowsmedia/player/11/default.aspx

 

Its a nice update to 10

[k-strider]

anyone know when it will be on wsus? and anyone know if some policies will be able to turn off that advertising bit in the top bar?

[Gatt]

We're using XP N Edition - no WMP for our kiddies.

Will need to ensure that WMP 11 doesn't try and deploy to kids PC's via WSUS though..

[webman]

Oh joy, another skinned MS product that goes against their own UI guidelines

[Norphy]

It seems the the Enterprise Deployment Pack works with the new version. This is a bunch of scripts which repackages WMP as an MSI making deployment easy.

[Geoff]

Beware the new DRM restrictions in WMP11. You can't 'backup' your licenses any more thus you can't move DRM restricted content from machine to machine. I don't know if it'll affect any software we have here though, I'm unsure what (if anything) is using MS DRM.

[mrforgetful]

You can use it with the new Xbox360 Dashboard update to stream WMV without needing Media Center.

[Geoff]

Ah I found a hurdle after reading some more. Apparently if you rip CD's withWMP11 you can't move the tracks to another machine as per the DRM restrictions.

[contink]

I know that it's sort of a topic shift but after the amount of grief I had getting any response from the OB2 when I couldn't get my music to work after upgrading a hard drive I refuse to use anything DRM now..

 

For school purposes I guess WMP11 might end up on there but not until it has to.. and even then I may find something else more acceptable.