Microsoft disputes security researcher's findings; claims the flaw in its Windows Media Player is a reliability issue with no security risk to customers Microsoft is denying that an alleged ...

Users are being advised to disable a certain type of file in Microsoft Corp.’s Windows Media Player software following the discovery of a new security hole in the software. The flaw, which affects ...

A buffer-overflow vulnerability in Microsoft Corp.’s Windows Media Player software could let malicious attackers run code of their choice on a victim’s system, Microsoft warned in an advisory today.

Microsoft has had a strange relationship with local video playback for the past several years. It’s one of those features that was caught in the purgatory that was created with the start of Windows 10 ...

Microsoft Corp. claims that the European Commission’s demand to strip the Windows Media Player from Windows will hobble the operating system, but judging from what Microsoft itself says the impact ...

Microsoft has quietly removed support for one of the oldest features in its media player, directly affecting users who still use physical discs on their computers. Without any prior notice, the tools ...