after win8 made its own most recent updates on my laptop, I was playing a video and a message came up saying that I had to download a new version of the app in order to keep playing my video, and that I should get it at the Windows store.
This was fairly enraging, because it happened WHILE we were playing a video. It stopped playing the video,and said we had to update in order to continue playing it.
I suspect it's a part of MSoft's strategy of going to subscription basis for Windows 10 and probably all their other apps too. So I'm jumping ship. No more MS media player for me. As far as I can tell, VLC Media Player is the best replacement... But I thought I'd post the question here in case anyone has knowledge of a superior replacement.
-Ernie
This was fairly enraging, because it happened WHILE we were playing a video. It stopped playing the video,and said we had to update in order to continue playing it.
I suspect it's a part of MSoft's strategy of going to subscription basis for Windows 10 and probably all their other apps too. So I'm jumping ship. No more MS media player for me. As far as I can tell, VLC Media Player is the best replacement... But I thought I'd post the question here in case anyone has knowledge of a superior replacement.
-Ernie