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Windows Media Player 11 (Beta) available for public download

As promised, WMP 11 Beta is available for public download here. It was leaked a few days ago, but this is the official Microsoft release.

What struck me is that this is the default version on the WMP download page. Normally MS is a bit more cautious with Beta releases - they're available, but never the default. I'm a beta junkie, so this doesn't worry me at all, but it's an interesting shift in MS's generally cautious release approach. Keeping up with the Joneses?

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  • putlic.........and public also. ;-)



  • Corrected. Thanks, Wally. At least, due to the magic of copy and paste, I was consistent.



    Funny - I woke up this morning dreaming that my blog was littered with hundreds of spelling errors...

  • Unfortunatelly it does not work under LUA, when I install it and select that I do not want a music store it hangs when upgrading to my selected music store (d'oh).

  • Jon G., seeing the "Joneses" link in the context of your post, I thought for a moment that Google had a competitor to Media Player on their Labs page! But I don't see one there, so I guess you just mean Google's products in general. :-)

  • Maybe they're trying to be "Web 2.0" about it.. perpetual beta and software that doesn't work properly seems to be cool these days; the reality TV equivalent of software development.



    Also, WMP10 was beta quality when it was released as a final product, IMO...

  • Yep, that's what I meant - this release had a Web 2.0 perpetual beta feel to it.

  • I do not like Media Player 11. Can someone please trell me how to unistall it given that it does not show up in the Add/remove section of my control panel.

    11 keels tell ing me that I have files to be clicked on in the List pane when in fact nothing is there at all.

    I really would like to go back to 10.

    Please help me.

    Paul

    pacificles@ihug.co.nz

  • Well, I downloaded it, and I love it. I am also a beta junkie so it doesn't matter to me. Also it looks great.

  • Click , start, Control Panel, Add or Remove Programs , then you will see something that says

    Show updates

    click in the little box,

    scrool down until you see

    Windows Media Player 11

    then click change/ remove it will unistall it and it will revert it to windows media player 10

  • I tried uninstalling but the show upgrade box isnt there, please email me on karlton87@hotmail.com

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