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Windows Media Player just lost one of its oldest features

Microsoft just quietly pulled the plug on one of Windows Media Player’s oldest and most loved features. If you still enjoy ...
PC World

Windows Media Player loses the ability to play DRM media on older PCs

Last week, Microsoft updated a support page that tracks deprecated Windows features with a new announcement: legacy DRM services will no longer be available in Windows Media Player along with ...
Neowin

Microsoft kills legacy DRM support on Windows Media Player, Windows 7/ 8, Silverlight0 0

Recently, Microsoft gave the first official on-record confirmation about the apparent impending doom of the Windows Control Panel. After widespread media coverage of it though, the company soon ...
Digital Trends

I gave the Windows Media Player another shot. Here’s what surprised me

Microsoft has had a strange relationship with local video playback for the past several years. It’s one of those features that was caught in the purgatory that was created with the start of Windows 10 ...
Ars Technica

Audio in MKV files plays under WMP 12 but not WMC 7 - SOLVED

I've got a stack of classic Doctor Who episodes that I'd like to start watching with Windows 7 Media Center. I've downloaded and installed Haali Media Splitter and FFDshow Tryouts, and the audio and ...