Marvelous. Time to go looking for an adequate replacement. Preferably one that will actually let me see the DVD’s menu screen, which is where VLC breaks down…
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Welcome to the brave new world of Netflix!
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You can get Windows Media Center (and thus DVD playback) by buying the “Pro Pack” (which upgrades the system to Windows 8 Pro).
I may do that, but I’m trying something called Kodi first.
Windows 8 worked for anyone who never saw a PC before.
And for everyone else, who just had their limited knowledge base rendered irrelevant? That huge portion of the market?
Yeah. Too bad.
(N.B.: Is there anyone in the PC industry who can get across the concept that the guy running his inventory, his accounts, and his taxes, doesn’t want what you want, he wants “compatible to what I have right now because my customers, my bank, and the IRS are not going to wait for me to get all of this squared away.” Apparently not.)
You would’ve thought MS would maintain an institutional memory of the.docx fiasco, wouldn’t you?
Microsoft updating the Office file formats for the first time since 1997 in Office 2007 — and doing so with a format that’s essentially zipped XML, and so much easier for other programs to deal with than the prior COM structured storage based formats — was a fiasco? Hwat?
I didn’t mind so much that Microsoft turned my computer into a phone (Windows 8), but I got really put out when they decided to do the same thing to my server (Windows 2012).