Storing PC files on Mac OS X?

Yes.. No problems.. You can certainly transfer them and you can also use them..!
With Windows Media Player - you can just download the MAC OSX version.. No biggy..
For your other files give Apple a call..
Mac's a VERY compatible with PC's! You'd be VERY surprised! =]
Carl

Just a general follow-up to Carl's comment. Hard drives are hard drives and files are files. There is nothing inherent in a file system (what the operating system uses to navigate files on a disk) that will corrupt a file. So, in short, it is perfectly OK to store these files on a Mac - it will not damage them.

You can also play the .wmv in your Quicktime with this:

http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windowsmedia/player/wmcomponents.mspx

🙂

Thanks for putting up the link, Ehych. As you will see, there is no Media Player for OS X per se; what you use is a product from Flip4Mac that installs a QuickTime plugin that can handle most kinds of WMV content in the QuickTime player. Encrypted or protected content may not play, but it is a case-by-case basis.

As to getting the files themselves over to the Mac, besides sending them as an email attachment or via an Instant Messaging client, you can also use a USB memory dongle or even an external USB drive. By defalt, MacOS X can read and write Windows drives in FAT32 format and can only read drives in NTFS format if they are not password-protected. Installing MacFUSE allows MacOS to read and write to NTFS drives, but again, if not password-protected. It appears that the older FAT16 format is no longer supported.

You welcome Courcoul 😀

Actually there is a Windows Media Player for Mac in here:
http://www.microsoft.com/mac/downloads.mspx?pid=Mactopia_WMP&fid=1E974157-5031-4 AC6-840A-6E07547B6AEB#viewer

Actually there is a Windows Media Player for Mac in here:...

There was... That thing was released in 2003! No way am I going to allow an obsolete piece of PPC junk like that in my shiny new Leopard Intel computer!! :-O

Jajaja you're right :P