Damn my knees. They hurt, I could do without that.

Still remember the ribbon. Just a fancy toolbar, and it is not like the menu has disappeared in the rest of the world. Even see menus used in web pages. And still have that miserable "Modify Style" that uses that miserable Format button at the bottom. Has Microsoft not heard of the tab control. Office applications have had minimal evolution, and Microsoft has not fixed the ability to program office applications. Outlook has changed very little from 1995. What exactly has Microsoft been doing for the last 20 years. Have to say that the Visual Studio team has made enhancements but why did it take so long to get to 64bit? And I understand that SQL server is good also. But I go and use control-F and it does not work the same, and control + and Control - do not work like in the browsers. Guess Microsoft never learns how important UX is and consistency between applications. Microsoft seems to already be very much like IBM.

You can buy the CD and rip it, you can also go to many libraries and they are available online, one of the services that libraries often provide access to is Overdrive.

For a general purpose application I could not hope to match VLC. Yes there are details that I wish were different, but at least it has the ability to include many features that WMP do not have, and it will play DVD's. I actually started with the idea of having a small app with single keyboard key control for play pause, and skipping forward. Doing this on a laptop means that I do not have the special keys without keyboard combinations to do these functions. When you are asked to translate some phrase and you want a little time to do it you do not want to fumble with keys to pause the player. and jumping a little back and forth is not a common feature (VLC has it), WMP will stop and start with a space key if that button has the focus, but as soon as you do something, you loose it. Anyway, I kept thinking of things that would be nice, and have actually spent quite a bit of extra time on it. Another thing is as you repeat lessons, after a while you can do it with just part of your brain, and so sometimes nice to do something while practicing, so having it topmost and small has a real advantage. I know getting people to pay for this would be difficult, so was willing to share my work hoping others may benefit, and possibly provide feedback.

Again...you do no know what this app looks like. When I say learning a language, you know like "Pimsleur Chinese (Mandarin) Level 3." It has features specifically for that. I can send you a copy, and then you can decide if it is a nice little app. What app can you actually tell it when you press a keyboard key or a button to go back a number of seconds you choose. It has a single playlist, and when you start it up it can go back exactly where it was. It will keep track of the number of times you have listened to a track. Things that really are not generally useful. You might be able to get a skin for WMP or VLC that do the same thing, but then you are stuck with that when you don't want it unless you go to the effort of going back to the original skin. And you did not answer the question...you just decided to be very negative. So many nice people in the world.

I am not the idiot that you apparently I think I am. I did not say I wanted to sell it. I just thought somebody else might find it useful. And It is hard to make money on something like this anyway with all the free stuff around. Unfortunately it will not translate well into a mobile app and the features would not be that useful in a phone. It is in WPF so that sort of kills its mobile app capability anyway. What is nice is that you can sort of work on you language in the background while also having quick access to the app. I realize that you can get some features with VLC, but I use VLC strictly for video, and a lot of media players are designed to support video, which means that they are not optimized for audio. And being rather specialized, not something most people would be interested in anyway. And try to use the space bar for WMP. It is not consistent. You have not seen the app, so you are making a lot of assumptions. Are you always like this...so negative.

I was planning to eventually do that, but, although maybe some interest programmers given some of the ways I implemented features, I wanted to just post for general public consumption.

what is an anti-virus application, just another virus. Years ago a man that had a business supporting different companies said that anti-virus programs are more trouble than they are worth. The one advantage that defender has over any other software is that it can have better hooks into the OS, so should have less harmful side effects. Personally I have only used defender for years, and it seems to do a good job. Occasionally have hit a virus that will disable defender, but nothing recently.

You do have an advantage if you do support IE, and that is that you are more likely to get that business since others may not be supporting that browser. And there is also how much will it impact you to include ie support. It if is easy, just as well support IE. Depends on the tools you are using too.

I was learning a language with audio, and was not particularly happy with the features the media players for what I was doing, so I created a small application specifically to work with language learning audio. It stays on top, is designed to be quite small, has opacity so that it is always accessible, and you can use the space key to play and pause, the < and > to jump forward and back, configure a bunch of feature like opacity and how much time to jump, use of modifier keys to change to jump amount, you can set up a play list, and select from the list, stop the application and it will start again as the same point, a recently used list. I would like to upload this, but CNET requires me to have a web site, which I do not have. Any recommendations?

A corollary to this is: "You can lead an human to knowledge, but you cannot make him think." Question: Do we shoot the human also and add a footnote that that human has been killed because of stupidity (hopefully we shoot him before he gets to reproduce).

Which is the reason that Microsoft wants to sell subscriptions and not products

So far many of the products are not worth upgrading. Using office from 2 decades ago is not much different except the stupid ribbon made it impossible to get to features, a big down vote, and used a lot more real estate. Not sure I really thought that Windows 7 had to be replaced by windows 10

Thought they would have learned with Widget so many years ago. You cannot teach an old dog new tricks. :-(

Yes that is definitely a pretty bad bug. It really irritates me also.

That is pretty big :-) guess we can put it on the moon.

The screen real estate is an issue too, especially on smaller displays. It was a gimmick that was put out before it was ready, and totally destroying the old interface was another stupid Microsoft move since it just made it difficult on people. In the meantime things that they could have fixed that would have truly improved the product are still not made. You can see things in Microsoft products that are basically over 20 years old.

Yes, faced the same problem. I think it was update 1803 that required 5 more GB of space on the C: drive which was on 28 GB. How can Microsoft Windows require so much space????? Of course they have crap on their like Mail, which takes a lot of space, that you cannot delete. The Microsoft Windows and Office teams are really bad.

Pretty sure you are right. How the hell do you manage the content. How do you figure out what is legit and what is not. Did the politicians really consider the impact. Did the do a TRUMP.

I just recently updated my laptop from a 28 gb ssd to a 256 gb ssd. Not much choice if I wanted to get a recent Windows Update to work since most of the space was used for the OS, with only the smaller applications installed on the SSD, the big ones like Office on the hard drive. What really drove me was that I had a version of Visual Studio that expired, and could not install the free version on the secondary drive. Had to rebuild the machine. Anyway, if I was going to rebuild the machine, I figured I should just put in a new SSD since 28 GB was not going to hack it. If this had happened to me it would have been pointless since I needed a bigger hard drive just to install the OS with its newest update. On the software I used it was obvious how to increase the space to use the whole drive.