From: Mike N. 

On Mon, 14 May 2007 21:40:26 -0400, mike  wrote:

>It is galling, for example, to be frustrated because a video or song you
>just downloaded won't play in the Vista Media Player only to be further
>accosted with an error message that reads "Contacting Store ..."
>(Microsoft's online competitor to iTunes).

   It's not surprising that they made media player into a big fat slow
beast, with a fondness for contacting an online store.  Undoubtably, they
used the iTunes store as the benchmark for this operation, which, if like
my iTunes store experience,  would further slow things down

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