bunnyfubbles
Lifer
- Sep 3, 2001
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including it with most versions of 7 and then moving to charging $100 extra to get it for 8 was the death knell
as relatively simple and painless as it is to use the software (e.g. its about the only software that can utilize my HDTV Wonder PCI tuner card, a product where official support ended with 32bit XP and even that official tuner software was/is a huge PITA to get working) it still requires too many extras for the average person to make use of the software that it doesn't really matter how painless the software is itself
now if that $100 included something like an HDHomeRun network tuner along with a decent indoor antenna then Microsoft would have something with actual potential of market penetration if not proliferation
but for the most part people just don't/didn't know that their copy of Vista/7 had WMC to even begin to pursue getting use out of it (failure of marketing), and thus never used it and is a major reason why it was phased out of being included in 8 as a standard
as relatively simple and painless as it is to use the software (e.g. its about the only software that can utilize my HDTV Wonder PCI tuner card, a product where official support ended with 32bit XP and even that official tuner software was/is a huge PITA to get working) it still requires too many extras for the average person to make use of the software that it doesn't really matter how painless the software is itself
now if that $100 included something like an HDHomeRun network tuner along with a decent indoor antenna then Microsoft would have something with actual potential of market penetration if not proliferation
but for the most part people just don't/didn't know that their copy of Vista/7 had WMC to even begin to pursue getting use out of it (failure of marketing), and thus never used it and is a major reason why it was phased out of being included in 8 as a standard