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Microsoft ditching Media Player for Mac?

Windows Media Player 9 for MacYesterday we reported on Microsoft offering Flip4Mac, a Windows Media component for QuickTime. According to BetaNews, that was the first step in Microsoft withdrawing Windows Media Player support for the Mac entirely and that the Redmond giant has recently been reassigning its Mac Business Unit staff elsewhere in the company. BetaNews speculates that soon the only Microsoft products available for the Mac will be Office and Messenger due to their business appeal. It seems like an odd move considering Microsoft's newly-minted five-year pact with Apple. Currently, though, Windows Media Player 9 for Mac is still available.

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So, just how good at time waster games are you? Think you've got the stuff? Well, The World's Hardest Game 2.0 doesn't think you do. Yes, amazingly, it's possible to have a sequel to a game called "The World's Hardest Game". It doesn't seem logically possible, since if the first one was actually the world's hardest, how could another one come along and share the moniker? It made me doubt the name in the first place. That is, until I tried the game. The mechanics of the game are very simple. You are a small red square, ...

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