My reaction(s) to this piece of news item: Wow! Let's see what it offers! Has to be cool!
- So I do a "I'm Feeling Lucky" Google search for "Windows Media Player 11", from right within my favorite browser: Mozilla's Firefox (here).
- I reach Microsoft(R) Windows(R) Media Player 11 homepage and guess what... I am unable to find a download link!
- I find my way to the download link. Thank to the lord and the site designer, it is on the very next webpage I open
- I look at the screenshot and can't help saying: "Cool... Awesome".
- I start the download of the application and while the download completes, I decide to read the "System Requirements"
- I start reading the table from top to bottom, both the Minimal and Recommended configuration: Operating system, Processor, RAM, Free hard disk space, ... !!!
There it says, recommended amount of "Free Hard Disk Space: 60 *ucking GBs!"
I wonder, what on Mother Earth are they going to do with 60 GBs of hard disk space? and what comes to my mind for Microsoft(R) is:Oops! ...I Did It Again!
I did not install the application. What if it starts hogging my system, like the resident OS ;-)
Looks like I learned from my past experience.
