
Posted on Monday, May 22 2006 @ 8:17 CEST by Thomas De Maesschalck
Washington Post has an article about Microsoft's new Windows Media Player 11:
The immediate reward for taking that risk is a cleaner, simpler interface. Instead of the dense, screen-filling track lists of earlier releases, Windows Media Player 11 displays songs on your computer as a collection of thumbnail views of album covers (it fetches these images automatically from online databases). It cleverly represents how many songs you have in a given category -- from one artist, in one genre, released in a particular year and so on-- by stacking these thumbnails on top of each other..
You can read on over
here.