Re:Nothing to see here (Score 1)

As I remember it. Streaming radio and later streaming video over the internet started with Real Player. At that time they were way ahead of competition. It took MS quite some time to provide streaming media and catch up, And RP wasn't slow then (to the standards of that time).

After that you got Real Jukebox to manage your music and video collection. The MP from Windows 3.1.. could just open and play files on your pc.

Later RP got to be a kludgy, slow, kind of adware or maybe even spywareapplication. (They must have tried too make money that way.)

MS could fund the development of WMP to what it is now out of the money they made on their OS. And because it was allready bundled with the OS, nobody was going to pay for RP. Given MS monopoly on the OS-market, the question is, if that was fair.