i wanted to watch a bit of the george bush interview from yesterday. windows media player would be an obvious place to go look for one (the interview was on nbc, so with the msnbc connection, it led me to trying media guide in the ms media player). anyway after a few clicks here and there i found a nice link to it.

what i expected to happen:

• i click on the link and the clip plays.

what did happen:

• i click on “intelligence probe”



• and my browser opens up. “hmm” i thought.



• i’m not using internet explorer 6 as my default browser, so i have to exit firefox and open internet explorer with the same url. it checks to make sure i have flash installed. then i follow the “launch msn video” button



• so here i am, ten minutes later. still “preparing media” and no sign of it playing the clip i wanted. oh microsoft, why do you make things so difficult for yourself and for me?.

thank you for your time