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Windows Media 9 in Digital Theaters

Posted by michael on from the popup-ads-for-popcorn dept.

SpamJunkie writes "Feel like watching new releases in 7.1 surround sound with full digital video? It's coming, not with MPEG 4 but with Windows Media 9. Microsoft announced it is bringing Windows Media 9 to 177 screens in Landmark Theaters."

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  1. Re:Argh. by tuffy · · Score: 5, Interesting
    It does not matter that M$ doesn't own a market, the minute they set their eyes on one, the current market leader (weither (sp?) it is a company or an {open} technology) is toast. Think about the state of the OA software market 10+ years ago, web browsers 5 years ago, server market, etc. M$ has the will and the means to conquer any market they want to own. Remember that.

    Bullshit. Really. Apache is still beating IIS in market share and always has. The PS2 is still clobbering the X-Box. The PalmOS is still demolishing the PocketPC. WebTV has been toast for some time. Heck, the only places Microsoft *have* been successful are Windows (due to a desktop monopoly), Explorer (due to leveraging the previous monopoly to squash Netscape) and Office (due mostly to locked-in data formats). Outside of the narrowly-defined desktop realm, Microsoft is one vast litany of failures.

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