The Next Web : VLC, the popular video playing application that has become the defacto standard for flexibility and ease of use among the technologically competent, wants to land on Windows 8. To do so, the VideoLAN Organization, the group behind VLC, is raising money on Kickstarter to fund a Windows 8-specific application.
The cloud storage platform will drop support for older versions of Windows in early 2022.
Microsoft responded with Windows 8 and its Surface RT tablet.
Tech researchers who are working independently from each other have discovered a critical vulnerability in VLC Media Player, which can be exploited by hackers to plant bugs in the computer system — where the famous media player is installed and is being used.
