Vista - Hands on: Windows Media Player 12's surprising new features

Though many previously bundled applets now will ship separately to Windows 7, Windows Media Player remains part of the core OS. Windows 7 will ship with Windows Media Player 12, which includes some surprising new features.

The UI itself is brighter and lighter than WMP11. Some buttons and toolbar items have been moved around, but the experience should be pretty familiar to users of version 11. What does represent a big change is the removal of the Now Playing button, which in WMP11 switches to a view showing the current playlist.

This is because WMP12 completely separates library management from what's currently playing, with two distinct player modes; Now Playing view, and Library view. Library view contains all the library manipulation features that should be familiar from WMP11. Now Playing view contains the current playlist, visualizations, and videos.

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I guess Vista will get it once Windows 7 is released.

You can count on that lol. Chances are it will be up for download before 7 is even released!

But if 7 is going to be as good as they are saying I will be willing to forget Vista and switch.

Faster all around, more secure and everything that work on Vista will work on 7 no reason to say on Vista