For now. Windows 10 is ready to make its debut later this month, with Microsoft having updated several areas of the upcoming OS. Windows Media Player, though is not one of them.
In fact, along with tab support for File Explorer, Windows Media Player remains one of the two big feedback requests from the community that Microsoft has ignored — users have been asking for a new version for a long time now.
In the Windows Feedback app, for example, the request for a new Windows Media Player has seen in excess of 5,000 votes, with the suggestion reading:
“We need a new Windows Media Player. Most people install other players like MPC and VLC because of the lack of codec support and features. WMP should have a playlist that can be detached as a separate window.
There is a host of codecs it doesn’t support and although it now supports MKV, its level of support is very basic. It doesn’t support multiple audio streams and so far I’ve yet to be able to display subtitles.”
Fair concerns, all of them.
However, Redmond is in no mood to act on this, and design a more powerful solution for playing and managing multimedia files. The application will receive a few tweaks here and there, though none of them will be significant in any way.
But for the most part, Windows Media Player will live on in Windows 10.
For now.
source:windows10update
