Click to expand.I wonder why Quicktime isn't designed to play.wmv and.wma files, especially after all the bragging that Apple and Apple supporters do about how great and compabible the OS 10 and Quicktime are; I'm still forced to download and install a program from Microsoft's Web site to enable movies on my Mac. I hope the developers are working on this shortcoming for Leopard, or perhaps the top-secret subsequent code-named updates for OS 10 (Lynx, Aardvark, Oryx and Lemming.) Thanks, Eric. Click to expand.The facts: 1) Microsoft invested $150 million in 1997. 2) $150 million of Apple, even in 1997, was nowhere near 25%. AAPL had a market cap of 2.2 billion in July 1997, so $150 million was more like 7%.
3) The stock Microsoft was issued were non-voting shares that they were obligated to hold for three years. 4) They sold the shares soon after they were allowed to, for a nice tidy profit I might add (though I can't pinpoint exactly when, it would probably been 2000 or 2001). Last time I researched it, Microsoft did still own some Apple stock through a Private Capital Management fund, but Apple owned about 100 times more of its own stock through PCM than Microsoft did. Yes, but do note that Flip4Mac isnot a Microsoft product! MS has bought the right to use it and give it free for Mac users, now they have stopped developing of WMP for the Mac. Some of my Windows friends are also beginning to use software from Telestream - the developers of Flip4Mac, because they are really unsatisfied with the WMP. They call WMP 'oldish'.
And I indeed do hope that this is the beginning of the end of WMP for any platform, so we can get some fully reliable standards on the video front like on the audio front.
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Jan 18, 2017 - Windows Media® Components for QuickTime are provided by Flip4Mac™. Click “Download” to visit the Flip4Mac™ download site. As of Mac OS X Lion, the underlying media framework for QuickTime. With additional QuickTime Components, it can also support ASF, DivX Media Format, Flash Video. The next versions, 2.1 and 2.5, reverted to the previous model of giving QuickTime away for free.