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Microsoft's Silverlight aims to topple Flash

News Microsoft's answer to Adobe's Flash Player has an official name -- Silverlight -- and a coveted target audience: media and entertainment companies bringing video to the Web. At the NAB Show, Adobe plans to announce the Adobe Media Player, formerly...

16 April 2007, 10:32

Microsoft says Zune will support Vista

News Microsoft has dismissed reports that its Zune digital media player, just launched in the US, is not compatible with the forthcoming Windows Vista operating system. Microsoft's Zune Web site currently only lists Windows XP with Service Pack 2 and...

17 November 2006, 10:00

Microsoft unwraps Zune for Christmas

News Microsoft took the wraps off its Zune media player on Thursday, though what's underneath is largely what enthusiasts had come to expect. In the meantime, Zune's software can automatically import music, pictures and videos from iTunes and Windows...

15 September 2006, 10:21

News.blog: Zune won't work with Vista

News I had heard the Windows Media Player DRM and the Zune DRM were not going to be compatible. According to this Microsoft Knowledge Base post, Zune supports Windows Media Player 10's DRM, but not WMP 11's.

15 November 2006, 11:25

Apple countersues Creative over patents

News Faced with a patent infringement suit against the iPod and iPod nano, Apple countered this week with its own complaint against Creative, which holds a distant second place in the personal media player market.

22 May 2006, 9:10

How the EC's ruling will affect Longhorn

News The decision, handed down by European Competition Commissioner Mario Monti on Wednesday, requires Microsoft to offer two versions of its Windows operating system: one with Media Player, the company's audio and video software; and one without it.

24 March 2004, 13:15

Microsoft patches WMF vulnerability

News The software maker also rated another patch for a vulnerability in Windows Media Player 7.1 as 'critical'. Microsoft also patched Windows Media Player 7.1, on Windows 98/98SE/ME/2000, Windows Media Player 8 on Windows XP (up to and including SP1...

15 February 2006, 9:14

Real chief backs EC decision on Microsoft

News In London this morning to promote European versions of the company's media player software, RealPlayer 10, Glaser said: "The Commission did the right thing, the right way, for the right reasons. Last December, Real hit Microsoft with its own...

7 April 2004, 15:40

Microsoft eases music player half-Nelson

News Under the programme Microsoft had proposed, device makers that included a CD with Windows Media Player and other software would have had to agree not to include any other software, including rival media players.

21 October 2005, 9:35

Can Microsoft catch Apple with WMP 11?

News Technology critic Paul Thurrott, for example, gushed in a review on his Web site that despite being an avid iTunes user, he found himself "drawn to Windows Media Player 11" because it "offers dramatically better performance" than iTunes.

23 May 2006, 9:45

Creative wins patent for MP3 player interface

News According to a Creative press release, the interface "enables selection of at least one track in a portable media player as a user sequentially navigates through a hierarchy using three or more successive screens on the display of the player".

1 September 2005, 8:42

Microsoft's Sun deal 'will not affect EU appeal'

News Last month Mario Monti, the European competition commissioner, ruled that Microsoft had stifled competition by failing to provide information to rivals needed to compete fairly in the market for server software, and by bundling its media player...

5 April 2004, 16:20

Microsoft planning music subscription service

News The Microsoft MSN-branded service did not include a subscription plan at that time, focusing instead on selling individual songs online and through Windows Media Player. According to people familiar with the company's plans, the service is being...

10 June 2005, 10:26

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