Will Microsoft Drown in Its Proprietary Media Stream?
Source: OS Opinion
Start popping the corn, tech news fans: The classic battle between Microsoft and Apple has been officially rekindled.
Sure, the issues are different -- this time the fight is over media players rather than desktop operating systems -- but the players are the same. And regardless of which team you support, you gotta love the competition.
In a nutshell, Microsoft is still taking its cues straight from Apple's playbook. When Apple announced QuickTime 6 in February, the computer maker offered new technology to streaming media users to eliminate those annoying buffer delays. Now, Microsoft's just-released Windows Media Player 9 offers the very same technology.
