feeds.wired.com — "The BBC, slammed by the British public and government alike for handing its iPlayer program to Microsoft, has made clear that the full application will remain Windows-only. Only a stripped-down YouTube-alike version is planned for other platforms."
Oct 19, 2007 View in Crawl 4
koonchuOct 19, 2007
Calm the f**k down.
nekoOct 20, 2007
Oh well. I guess I'll just have to wait until one of the windows users dowloads the shows, breaks the DRM and puts it online.
spiffytechOct 20, 2007
On one hand, yes, most people use Windows (despite the rise of Mac OS and Linux). On the other hand, who's most likely to watch TV online? Geeks and other computer savvy people, who tend to use Mac OS and Linux as much as Windows. Besides, why not use Flash like CBS, Comedy Central, and others? It's cross-platform.
wageslavenOct 23, 2007
The submitter is a radical Linux zealot -- he submits 20 stories a day about Microsoft. All are baseless and/or inaccurate, but in each, he calls Microsoft "abusive monopolist".The fact that Digg hasnt flushed this turd is only a testimony to its own maladjustment.
wageslavenOct 23, 2007
Apple's worldwide marketshare is 3%. Add GNU/Linux and the rest of the rebel-without-a-clue OS advocate's machines, and it will probably be 4-6% of the world wide marketshare -- and that is probably generous.
cquinndOct 23, 2007
No, anywhere in the world that has access to a radio (BBC Worldwide), or a TV set within range of the usual BBC broadcast content.
cquinndOct 23, 2007
I thought you were being sarcastic as first, now I'm really not so sure. (golf clap)
cquinndOct 23, 2007
Sell your TV. Since its obvious from your comments that you never watch it, and consider the £120 only valid for internet content. If you do watch TV, then you can complain that this part of the service is an imposition on your ability to watch BBC content on your computer, but the majority of what you pay for is still there. Don't people in the UK have DVRs?