Microsoft vs Kodak
2001-07-04 19:06:11+02 by
Dan Lyke
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#Comment made: 2002-02-21 06:32:02+01 by:
ebwolf
For those of you who are less Windows savvy:
Try installing an MP3 player, like WinAmp, and let it associate itself with MP3 files. Continue to use WinAmp until the next time an update for Microsoft Media player comes down the pipe (automatically in most cases) and see what happens when you try to play an MP3 file. You'll no longer be using WinAmp.
Microsoft uses this trick throughout the operating system and even extends it to their Office products. They try to make life easier for the user by automatically associating their applications with different file types. But they take it further by having the apps re-associating themselves whenever they get a chance even if a third-party product has established the association.
This is very different from Apple's model where Apple's software usually gives up the association nicely. Of course, In Linux you pretty much have to manage the associations yourself which, albeit less user-friendly, provides exactly the results you expect.
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and the camera industry for a year on a new photo-transfer standard that allowed Windows