Plus! Digital Media Edition Available at Nearly 8,000 Stores
Posted by Tom Warren on 10 March 2003 - 16:12 · 10 comments & 343 views
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#1 Posted by Justin03248 on 10 Mar 2003 - 16:21
- why would you buy it in a store if you can download it. You have to pay taxes :/
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#1.1 Posted by pctuk on 10 Mar 2003 - 17:35
- The dancers are huge files, and probably the target market are 56kers. I heard that to install all the dancers you needed 600MB! (Is this true?)
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#1.2 Posted by Danrarbc641 on 10 Mar 2003 - 18:28
- [neoquote=#1.1 by pctuk]The dancers are huge files, and probably the target market are 56kers. I heard that to install all the dancers you needed 600MB! (Is this true?)[/neoquote] Actually I think they can climb over a gig now, especially with the 5 new dancers.
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#2 Posted by leebobs on 10 Mar 2003 - 16:25
- Why buy it at all, it is a total waste of money and contains things microsoft should have just included with XP or allowed you to download them for free!!
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#2.1 Posted by PeterTHX on 10 Mar 2003 - 22:05
- Gimme a break.
A: These are new things obviously developed in the last year. WinXP was finalized in 2001.
B: People already complain about the "junk" they don't want in the OS.
C: Free, huh. Guess development time doesn't cost money.
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#2.2 Posted by leebobs on 11 Mar 2003 - 08:44
- I would hardly call time spent on PME development time, more than a waste of time!! Ok most of it couldn't have been included with the OS but maybe with WMP9 or as an optional download. There certainly isn't anything worth $20 in the package and as a whole it is more of a waste of hard disk space than a productivity tool!!
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#2.3 Posted by PeterTHX on 11 Mar 2003 - 10:25
- Who said it's a productivity tool? It's media enhancement. For fun. Fun costs money. Junk food. Disneyland. Blockbuster. Cable TV. Not free.
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#2.4 Posted by leebobs on 11 Mar 2003 - 11:00
- [neoquote=#2.3 by PeterTHX]Who said it's a productivity tool?
It's media enhancement. For fun.
Fun costs money. Junk food. Disneyland. Blockbuster. Cable TV. Not free.[/neoquote]
Add to that list Football, Hockey, Music, Po*n take off PDME which isn't fun... It is a waste of space + it has product activation
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#2.5 Posted by JaggedFlame on 11 Mar 2003 - 13:41
- If you don't like it, don't buy it. Simple as that. Obviously, [i]someone[/i] likes it, because they're sure raking in the money.
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#2.6 Posted by ir0nw0lf on 11 Mar 2003 - 15:11
- [neoquote=#2.5 by JaggedFlame]If you don't like it, don't buy it. Simple as that.
Obviously, [i]someone[/i] likes it, because they're sure raking in the money.[/neoquote]
Only reason people are buying it is because M$ put hypnotizing swirly eyes on the front of the box and anyone who makes direct eye contact with the box gets hypnotized into burning $20.
Microsoft Corp. today announced the immediate availability of the retail version of Plus! Digital Media Edition, the ultimate photo, music and movie enhancement pack for Windows® XP. It is available today at nearly 8,000 stores nationwide, representing over 70 percent of major retailers where software is sold. Retailers include Amazon.com, Best Buy, Buy.com, Circuit City, CompUSA Inc., Costco, Fry's Electronics, J&R Electronics, Micro Center, Office Depot, Sam's Club, Staples, Target and Wal-Mart. In addition, the top three OEMs, Dell Computer Corp., Gateway Inc. and HP, announced their plans to offer Plus! Digital Media Edition to their customers. Microsoft also made available online today two new bonus add-ons for Plus! Digital Media Edition that let customers do more with their music and Creative Labs, SONICblue and Nike portable music devices.
Microsoft's first brief, filed on February 13, asked the court to set aside the injunction, saying that Java, and not.Net, was the dominant product in the market for distributed computing platforms.
In its reply brief, Sun says the injunction must be granted before Microsoft's anti-competitive actions begin to tip the market towards.Net.
"Microsoft asks this court to wait until the harm [to Sun and Java] has become certain, at which point it will be irremediable and intervention will be pointless," Sun wrote in its brief, adding, "The harm confronting Sun is so egregious and irremediable, equity demands judicial intervention."
Sun has stated that Microsoft's action in offering its own incompatible Microsoft Java Virtual Machine is a breach of Sun's copyright and an attempt to damage the Java platform. Microsoft now offers a Windows XP Service Pack, known as XP SP1a, which is identical to the previous service pack but excludes the MSJVM.
"Because Sun has established a prima facie claim of copyright infringement, it is entitled to both the presumption of probable success on the merits of its copyright claim and the presumption of irreparable harm if infringing conduct is not enjoined," Sun wrote in the brief.
Oral arguments in the appeal are scheduled for April 3 before the U.S. Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals in Richmond, Virginia.