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mobrien_12:
Microsoft slams HP's iTunes move

 
quote:from the article
HP's move to release an own-branded digital-music player based on Apple's iPod

hm_murdock:
doesn't bother me much. I suppose it means that WMA will come to iTunes?

Good. Now there ain't jack shit I can't play. Out of the... uh... installer, iTunes can do MP3 and AAC. You can easily add ogg vorbis. Now WMA. Good.

Good.

When is WMV support coming to Quick Time

Xeen:
Hopefully never. In case you don't know, WMV is a proprietary ripoff of some mpeg4/divx format. I forget the details, but basically MS took a freely open mpeg4/divx format, tweaked it, and made it proprietary. Now theres newever versions of divx and they are MUCH MUCH MUCH superior to WMV. Why not use the real thing?

Laukev7:
Hasn't Microsoft opened up the WMA/WMV format recently?

Xeen:

quote:Originally posted by Laukev7:
Hasn't Microsoft opened up the WMA/WMV format recently?
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News to me if they did. Maybe they changed it since series 9, I'm not sure.

But regardless of whether their format is good or bad, I don't want to see it dominate the market either way. I don't like ANY company, good or bad one, to control so damn much - OSes, browsers, media players, office suites, and now audio/video formats.

Bill Gates was able to get rich after the collapse of Bell Corporation, which controlled close to everything back 20 years ago. The same future awaits Microsoft. The question is not if, but when.

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