The current version of Windows Media Player has been around for more than a decade. So, after all these years, Microsoft is finally pushing out a new app designed to handle everyday media playback in ...

Microsoft has had a strange relationship with local video playback for the past several years. It’s one of those features that was caught in the purgatory that was created with the start of Windows 10 ...

Microsoft has built a new media playback app for Windows 11 to supplant both Windows Media Player, which hasn't really changed since 2009, and the Groove Music app. Windows Insiders can start testing ...

MELBOURNE, Australia--Melbourne-based IT firm, itSecure, today issued a strong warning to users of recent version Windows Media Player to download software from Microsoft to patch the application's ...

If there's one thing Windows 11 has been good for, it has been the renewed attention and useful updates to the built-in apps that ship with Windows. Sometimes this means new features for ...

Microsoft is updating the Camera, Media Player and Movies & TV apps for Windows 11 testers in the Dev Channel, officials said on July 13. Microsoft is adding QR Code and barcode scanning to the ...

The new Media Player is rolling out to Windows 11. Microsoft started testing the updated Media Player app with Insiders in November 2021. The app supports browsing and playing music and video files.

Marc Sonnenschein reports that the link for Windows Media Player 7.01 now really downloads the new update (as opposed to the prior version). He also notes that the file is now about 1MB smaller than ...