Tag: FLIP4MAC

Mac-using readers may well already know of Flip4Mac, the free Quicktime components which allow OS X users to playback Windows Media files within Quicktime. For Windows users, that may seem a bit unusual, but given that Microsoft no-longer develops Windows Media Player for Mac and actively points to the Flip4Mac site, the Telestream components are certainly welcome for those requiring access to ...

Yesterday 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 ...

It's not often that Microsoft distributes third-party tools on its own web site, but it looks like they're making an exception for Flip4Mac, a plugin for QuickTime Player that lets Mac users to watch WMV and listen to WMA files without downloading Windows Media Player. It supports pretty much all the formats that WMP9 does, and since it's a QT plugin, it'll also let you watch streaming Windows ...