MS Putting the Squeeze on Alternative Audio

Posted by timothy on Tuesday May 7, 2002 @06:31AM from the presumption-gumption dept.

renard writes: "Some interesting developments during the last two days of the Microsoft antitrust trial, as reported by AP: MS Executive Linda Averett has admitted that Internet Explorer trumps user preferences for audio playback, and explains away a failure of IE6 searches to find RealAudio sites as a "mistake by the search team." My personal favorite: an MS-internal email exchange where one employee suggests that everyone "Remember the 'embrace and extend' campaigns we've used in the past," and an MS executive admonishes that "We need to keep all of this off the airwaves." See also related stories at Yahoo, CNN, and the NYT."

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RealPlayer and Quicktime are AWFUL audio plugins! by BenJeremy · 2002-05-07 06:41 · Score: 1, Flamebait

I'd be appreciative if M$ would kill the invasive practices of Quicktime and RealPlayer from taking over the duties of simple wav playback from the perfectly capable default media player applet.

Very annoying.

All I want Quicktime and RealPlayer to do is play back ONLY their respective proprietary formats.... nothing else!!!