So I haven’t been able to blog properly. It’s been more than a month since my last update and I’ve got some unfinished and pending articles. Then I came across this a few days ago:
http://news.softpedia.com/news/Winamp-to-Be-Discontinued-on-December-20-2013-402176.shtml
That almost broke my heart. Like my procrastination in techblogging, I actually just got to install Winamp on my desktop about a month ago. It felt good. I’ve been using Windows Media Player for my music for almost 3 years. I have Winamp on my 10-inch netbook, though, but since it got replaced by my 12-inch netbook months ago, well, I haven’t been using Winamp for a good amout of time. To think, I even made myself winamp skins during the Winamp 2.x days.
Then here comes hopeful news:
http://news.softpedia.com/news/Microsoft-Wants-to-Buy-and-Save-Winamp-Report-402567.shtml
On my Windows 7 taskbar, I replaced IE with Chrome and WMP with Winamp. What if in the not so distant tech future, Winamp would be the preinstalled media player in Windows? That’s assuming the Windows OS thrives and doesn’t go self-destruct and MS doesn’t do a MechWarrior with Winamp.
I was getting ready to put Winamp in the same part of the tech past as MusicMatch, WinMX, and I can’t really think of more examples at the moment. Exactly! But there’s a glimmer of hope. Let’s keep ourselves hopeful.
