Winamp 5.52 Released (security patch)

[Lawnmower233]

Originally posted by DJ Egg
I assume you're referring to Vista there? If so, then yes, I agree :-)

No. Only reason it appears temperamental is because people can't be bothered to program properly for it.

For instance there's a thread I made earlier where my problem turned out to be completely due to the sheer laziness of the devs. WinAmp needs to be run as Administrator for no good reason on both XP and Vista. I don't see why it should need to be run as admin as no other game/media player/piece of software that I use needs administrator except various anti-malware utilities I have like Spybot S&D. In fact even most of the anti-malware things like BitDefender get special privileges from the OS's Security Centre and so I don't need to run them as administrator.

There is no reason WinAmp needs admin. It does nothing special to set itself apart from any other media player than I can see. It still needs admin without Winamp agent and WinAmp remote. I just don't get it.

Windows is a "temperamental" OS and always will be because so many third party apps run on it. Apple can confidently gloat that Mac OS "Just works" because virtually no third party apps I use regularly will run on it. It is MS's fault for being arrogant and annoying at times but it's not their fault if third-parties when they have had 18 months to adapt to Vista STILL can't seem to make their products compatible.

And I like Linux. I'm not a big Windows Fanboy. I have Ubuntu on my old PC but I just think Vista bashing is some annoying fad that I hope will die out eventually.

And this will be the last point in my diatribe against Vista bashing. I have a notebook, or as we affectionately used to call it, the craptop. It's a Toshiba Satellite Pro A100 with 512MB of DDR2 SDRAM, a 1.73Ghz mono-core processor and a intergrated GFX card. It came with Vista Business and ran appallingly slow and bad. I too wanted to blame MS. But it turns out after a while when I noticed the sticker beside the keyboard that it actually was SUPPOSED to come with Windows Vista Home Basic and not Business. Some idiot third party had installed Business on each of the laptops. They then sold them all on to various computer salesmen. The computer salesman I got my new desktop off threw in this Toshiba craptop with it. I thought it'd be great as I'd just bought a Netgear DG834GT "Super Wireless ADSL Modem Router" and I wanted something wireless. Anyway it runs like a slug with even everything off.

Point is MS can be annoying but they made different flavours of Vista for a reason. It's stupid third-parties who upgrade PCs that don't meet the hardware requirements to the more intensive versions of Vista that are the real idiots here.

And on the software side of things it's third party software devs who didn't really bother much to make proper drivers and software for Vista that make it so "incompatible".