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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. HA! by alchemist68 · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    First post!

  2. Subject by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Troll.

  3. 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...

  4. You just cost me six thousand dollars. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Six. Thousand. Dollars.

    Richard Roma

    1. Re:You just cost me six thousand dollars. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      And one cadillac.

      What are you going to do about it?

  5. What's better? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    (a) an alternative audio codec

    (b) sex with a mare?
  6. 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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    It's hard to believe that's how Micronians are made. Why don't we see it right now by having you both kiss one another?
  7. Microsoft Netscan is IE-only... by dtjohnson · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    The Microsoft-only mindset at Microsoft is so entrenched that it permeates everything they do. Microsoft Research developed something called Netscan

    http://netscan.research.microsoft.com

    that provides interesting statistics on Usenet sites and users. If you use it with anything other than IE, though, it says:

    "Netscan support for browsers other than IE will be back shortly.
    To view Netscan with all its functionallity, you need to have IE 5.5 and up."

    And then follows a link to get...IE.