Microsoft plans to jazz up its music player in Windows Vista, the company’s next operating system. But at least some of the new features will debut much sooner. The software, which will be built into Vista, is designed to offer better synching with portable devices, make it easier to scroll through long libraries of music, and be tightly integrated with Urge, a new subscription and download music service co-developed by Microsoft and MTV Networks. Microsoft is on track to release a Windows XP version of Windows Media Player 11 before the end of June, the company confirmed last week. Microsoft has said the XP version won’t have all the features of its Vista sibling, but the company won’t say which features will be excluded. The company also has yet to offer a public test version of the software. Check more details.
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I myself won’t upgrade to Vista ’till late 2008 so I’m looking forward to this XP release of Windows Media Player 11. I love it, I have all my music and videos organized in it and it’s been great for me.
This summer won’t be bad for my software expectations……Firefox 2.0 and WMP 11.