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