WMP 9: Open and on Mac this Fall
By opening the specification, Microsoft could increase the adoption of Windows Media 9.
As previously reported, Microsoft is already working on bringing Windows Media Player 9 to Mac OS X. Beta News managed to get some commentary from a Microsoft representative who narrowed the target date for the OS X release to "sometime this fall".
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We will have options with plugins for .wmv and .wma.
We may even be able to play them with the QuickTime frameworks :)
Please Microsoft, performance. Please please please.
AppleMatt
This is the kind of thing you have to be suspicious of with MS: a play for control. But at least it's a legal play for control this time!
Originally posted by AppleMatt
fall = autumn
Please Microsoft, performance. Please please please.
AppleMatt
Thanks for the helper.
While we are speeding up MS apps: Entourage also needs a massive performance increase. Its so incredibly sluggish but have to use it because of a much better feature set than Mail/iCal/Address Book Combination.
With open standards, other software companies could create applications that use Microsoft's video-encoding technology, although they would have to pay a license fee, which Usher said would be "low-cost and straightforward."
So it's an "open standard" but there will be license fees?
Originally posted by Lord Bodak
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So it's an "open standard" but there will be license fees?
That's how MPEG4 is.
arn
Originally posted by Lord Bodak
So it's an "open standard" but there will be license fees?
Sorta like MPEG-4 and AAC ;)
Edit: Arn beat me to it!
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