This picture has nothing to do with this post. But it sure does differentiate between studious and sexy.
Let’s just get the cat out of the bag: Windows Media Player (WMP) is old school. It’s a grandfathered media player that needs to be phased out or revamped. And, it’s definitely not sexy.
Sexy aside, everything has a purpose–and WMP gets the job done. It doesn’t use as much bandwidth as Quicktime, because most websites that need to stream at high quality do not rely on WMP. Forbes.com doesn’t seem to mind Windows Media Player’s simplistic nature, because it gets the job done. News, compared to websites that use plenty of rich media graphics, does not need much bandwidth to stream their content. In the news industry, speed trumps quality to help break the news–but not to say quality is completely neglected.
