Comments on: Another Reason Microsoft Sucks http://blog.zemote.com/archives/2006/01/13/another-reason-microsoft-sucks/ Changing the world 1 post at a time Mon, 08 Feb 2010 01:49:24 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: The Choir http://blog.zemote.com/archives/2006/01/13/another-reason-microsoft-sucks/comment-page-1/#comment-36293 The Choir Wed, 12 Nov 2008 06:55:26 +0000 http://blog.zemote.com/archives/2006/01/13/another-reason-microsoft-sucks/#comment-36293 Preach on Brother! You are so right. Just another example of more Microsoft strings to make things more of a hassle for customers.. not less. I mean, what the hell was wrong with good 'ol USB? IRiver devices (with MTP) are supposed to connect natively in Vista. If it doesn't, then what? With USB you just dl drivers and bang .. up and running. With MTP you are screwed. If not Vista, like XP, you MUST download Microsoft Windows Media Player (which coincidentally and inexplicably is part of the OS and technically cannot be uninstalled only down reved) AND you can only load content through synching via WMP!!! YES ...Microsoft / IRiver ... customers love to be forced into using products just to allow their other purchased products to (sometimes) function. Media Transfer Protocol = Many headaches, forced product bundling, no advantages. Preach on Brother!
You are so right. Just another example of more Microsoft strings to make things more of a hassle for customers.. not less. I mean, what the hell was wrong with good ‘ol USB?

IRiver devices (with MTP) are supposed to connect natively in Vista. If it doesn’t, then what? With USB you just dl drivers and bang .. up and running. With MTP you are screwed.

If not Vista, like XP, you MUST download Microsoft Windows Media Player (which coincidentally and inexplicably is part of the OS and technically cannot be uninstalled only down reved) AND you can only load content through synching via WMP!!!

YES …Microsoft / IRiver … customers love to be forced into using products just to allow their other purchased products to (sometimes) function.

Media Transfer Protocol = Many headaches, forced product bundling, no advantages.

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