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Monday, April 13, 2009

Microsoft Windows Media Player VS

With the increasing use of computers for multimedia, the operating system in the presence of a good program that can perform various functions such as cataloging and playback of music files and video, has become increasingly crucial. Music and movies, digitized, are increasingly present as a file in the hard disk of our PC, not just the use of a simple player to play the content, such as allowing many freeware, also of excellent quality, but a program that is also capable of performing functions of databases, organizing all of our music and our video, so they are easily navigable and identifiable, so that we can move easily between their own content.

In addition, over the years, this type of program has incorporated other functions, always linked to the world media, such as the ability to import music files directly from a CD, burning audio CD or DVD or to synchronize data and multimedia content among multiple devices different, as well as the last access to virtual shops on which to buy digital music and to share their collections of files across multiple computers connected in LAN.

It is understandable then how such software is very advanced and not comparable to simple breeding of audio or video files, but is much more closer to the idea of a media center itself.

The two most popular players of this type are undoubtedly Windows Media Player from Microsoft and Apple's iTunes. The first is integrated into Microsoft operating systems since Windows 3.0 in 1991, although the program was obviously far from what is today and did not offer all the advanced features currently limited to being a mere player. The ancestor of this in iTunes is Apple's operating systems starting in 1999 and since then have changed, integrating itself into all the features we listed earlier.



If these two programs, however, were simply included in their operating system, such a comparison would have little effect. Microsoft has discontinued development of the OS version of the house in Cupertino after WMP 9, but iTunes is still available for Windows, why, proposing itself as an alternative to what is already present in the operating system, we felt it was right compare them to determine if and what it offers more of the product for Apple aspire to be adopted by users already equipped with a program with similar functions.

The exercise was conducted by analyzing the organization of the interface, but also the functioning of the various features, ease of handling files etc.. So a real face to face based on the performance of daily tasks. Who will win? We shall see shortly.

posted by Hadson @ 8:51 PM