The rot is deep at Microsoft
I just read an article on ExtremeTech that the new Windows Media Player uses 3.5x more RAM than its predecessor, and it now charges users for third party codecs.
This is asinine. What are you doing Microsoft??
I am trying to imagine what the managers at the helm are doing here. There's only two possibilities: Either they are completely blind to this issue and are asleep at the wheel, or they are aware of the requirements and have actively signed off on a worse product for reasons that are frankly unfathomable.
Either way, this signifies a deep, systemic rot at the core of Microsoft. If they can't execute basic media players with improvements and conveniences in 2026, what else can't they do?