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MS Putting the Squeeze on Alternative Audio

Posted by timothy on 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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  1. Browser part of the OS? No... by Smallest · · Score: 2, Offtopic

    ...the OS will soon be al wrapped up in the browser. Already, PDFs, Word docs, image files, FTP sites, audio, video clips and more all open directly into the browser window.

    And, how convenient: as soon as .Net gets going for real, apps will be ditributed and you won't ever have to leave the browser to do anything.

    -c

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    1. Re:Browser part of the OS? No... by Gid1 · · Score: 2, Offtopic

      Why bother calling it 'Windows' anymore? Seems that 'Microsoft Window' might be a better name...

  2. Re:I'd give my left arm by stoolpigeon · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    34.5 are fraudulent.

    (The half is one that was authentic but slightly modified)

    Please pack the arm in dry ice and send by the fastest method of shipping available to:

    3443 N. Central Ave.
    Suite 1100
    Phoenix, AZ 85012

    thanks.

    .

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