Windows 10: Ubuntu now in the Windows Store

I don't have any movie DVDs to test the Movie & TV app, so I'll have to leave it to you for that fact. I see they offer a DVD player via the Store: Your request appears to be from an automated process

Don't know about LiveTV, cable sticks, or tuners used with the app, but the TV aspect of the app is that series seasons can be purchased. Kind of personalizes it at least.

So far as DRM channels it can be done meeting some requirements. With some research I found this: Protected channel requirements - Silicondust

And you're right about people not understanding WMP. Probably another reason why MS is dropping it.

 

Microsoft DVD Player app is joke, next to worthless, and $15 to boot, as opposed to VLC which is free.

My point about WMC - Microsoft played a huge role in developing the DRM requirements with CableLabs, it is why many didn't try to do it because Microsoft really had the monopoly on the software, no one wanted to compete, didn't feel they had a chance against the giant.

As far as SiliconDust, they have been working on the DRM part for over 3 years, believe me I was one of the first to jump on board. They are a hardware company, tuner cards. They only started to work on software to support their cards with the demise of Media Center. It has only been achieved since the release of Creator, even then, it is sketchy at best. Their software in no way even comes close to the sophistication of WMC (nursery school vs hi-school). Media Center still reigns supreme for DRM (the only true one). Even XBMC lags behind Media Center and will never support DRM.

the orginal WMC was like the Roku of the day, surfed the web for content, in addition to everything else (but MS failed to explain or promote it's use), hence why people didn't understand it. People had Media Player and were confused as to the double players.

But getting off topic. Ubuntu, glad I guess that it is available for all those developers who use it, guess they will now make it easier to replace Windows 10 with Linux.

 

This isn't an attempt to get people on Windows 10 to move to Linux. Trust me, the developers who are developing applications are most likely using Linux servers, linux cloud boxes, lambda functions or containers already.

 

Some tasks are better/easier done in Linux than Powershell, thus the Linux Sub System is a great tool.

Yes, I am currently running native Linux GUI applications on my Windows 10 machine. I have however not tried to install the full Ubuntu desktop environment as I see it as useless for my needs. I only need a few native Linux GUI app and the rest of Linux tools are run from the shell.