I use Windows Server 2003 as my primary development machine for various reasons. The other day, I decided that I will start listening to my music library on my development machine. I tried installing the Yahoo Jukebox and Rhapsody both of which failed miserably. iTunes installed successfully, but I don't like it...besides it installs QuickTime and I plain just hate that! Also, I tried watching movies on NetFlix and it told me that it needed WM Player 11 for DRM purposes.
After doing some research, I found out that WM player 11 is not available for Win 2K3. So, off I went looking for how to install WMP 11 on my machine. The process turned out to be very simple on my machine running SP2. You can get the details from Zack Whittaker's blog.
Even though, the music players still didn't work, I can now watch media files from NetFlix. After some digging around, I gave up and ran Rhapsody in compatibility mode. Out with iTunes!
It also goes to show the dependency everyone, except for Apple, has on Microsoft. And, why is the Xbox360 not able to connect to my machine? May be, Yahoo should let Microsoft buy them after all.
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