14 DAY TRIAL // VLC for Windows 8 was officially launched this morning, so the team behind the project finally has a bit more time to discuss about the application and share more details with fans who have waited for the app for more than one year.
VideoLAN's President Jean-Baptiste Kempf said in an interview with Neowin that Microsoft itself hasn’t been very helpful, explaining that the French subsidiary of the software giant didn’t provide the developing team with anything, “not even with one Surface RT” to test the application.
Some of the engineers employed by Microsoft, on the other hand, provided support and assistance to port the app to Windows 8, Kempf explained, while Microsoft Canada also offered the necessary resources to make VLC Metro possible.
“Some people of Microsoft have been AMAZINGLY helpful and supportive, mostly engineers. I'm not sure I'm allowed to name them, though... But, at the same time, managers, and notably Microsoft France, have promised a lot of help and did not give anything, not even one surface RT,” Kempf stated.
“We've been bounced through Microsoft divisions, hopelessly... There is a very notable exception, from Microsoft Canada! That helped us in numerous ways!”
The application is still in the beta development stage, but it’s no doubt that it still deserves a try, so download VLC for Windows 8 right now to see what it’s up to.