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Windows 11's New Media Player Uses 3.5x More RAM, Charges for Popular Video Codecs
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I think if it was bought it would be simply discontinued to force people to use their existing media player.
Also despite what people on tech forums think, probably 95% of people don't even know what VLC or 7zip are and have never even heard of it. Of that 5% that have heard of it, maybe half use it.