Time to switch my normal user hat for UX forensics expert”. I realize “uh oh, this is not as easy as I thought. Oh, in the bottom Products and Downloads section, looks like Windows Media Player is selected, so … where is the download link? Looks like it jumped somewhere halfway in the page, but it’s still telling me about Office… err. Now this is starting to go a bit downhill. It tells me there are two approaches for playing Windows Media content, and I pick the last link, Windows Media Player 9. I google for “windows media player for mac” and get to this page. Yet at other times, I’ve found Media Player gives me better experience, because it is Microsoft native so they have all the codecs and logic packaged up inside their own app and don’t need to interface with QuickTime. Yes, you can have Flip4Mac that integrates with Quicktime and is sometimes more convenient. It’s not a bad piece of software at all for using Windows Media content on Mac. I am trying to install Windows Media Player on my Mac. Still Microsoft.) My intent is not to bash them or anybody else just for the sake of bashing, but just now I came across something that made me again go just “sigh…” and shake my head. (Yeah, Buxton is in MS Research, not the “product”. It’s sad that Microsoft keeps giving me bad experiences, despite having Bill Buxton and other wonderful people on their team. Bad UX from Microsoft: Windows Media Player for Mac download experience
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