Vandaag heeft Microsoft op de Macworld Conference & Expo in New York de versie van Windows Media Player voor OS X gedemonstreerd. Omdat er steeds meer vraag is naar "Windows Media" op het Mac-platform heeft Microsoft besloten het niet te laten zitten bij een Media Player voor alleen Windows. Bij de ontwikkeling is gebruik gemaakt van de nieuwe Carbon API's van OS X. De nieuwe toepassing zal dan ook beschikken over een volledige OS X-look. Volgens Microsoft is de nieuwe Media Player dit najaar gratis te downloaden:
The new media player is being developed to meet demand for Windows Media content on the Mac OS X platform with an easy-to-use player for both audio and video. It will support Windows Media Digital Rights Management (DRM) and the latest industry-leading Windows Media audio and video technology. This will enable users of Mac to enjoy audio and video content with Windows Media and ensure that content providers can encode their content once to reach the broadest possible audience.
[...] Windows Media Player for Mac OS X will support playback of streamed or downloaded files using the latest Windows Media Audio and Video 8 codecs, which provide the highest possible video quality at all bandwidths, CD-quality audio at 64 Kbps and near-CD-quality sound at 48 Kbps. Because Windows Media Audio is twice as efficient as MP3, music fans enjoy shorter download times and can store twice as much music on their hard drives using Windows Media Audio as they can using MP3.
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The new media player is being developed to meet demand for Windows Media content on the Mac OS X platform with an easy-to-use player for both audio and video. It will support Windows Media Digital Rights Management (DRM) and the latest industry-leading Windows Media audio and video technology. This will enable users of Mac to enjoy audio and video content with Windows Media and ensure that content providers can encode their content once to reach the broadest possible audience.
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Het idee is aantrekkelijk voor websites die kampen met teruglopende advertentie-inkomsten. Voor grotere providers en hun abonnees kan het een kostbare zaak worden. TRIC wil de markt op in de Verenigde Staten en in een aantal Europese landen.
Steve Haddad, Senior Vice President, Business Development and Marketing of Constellation 3D, stated, "This is an extremely significant event in the execution of Constellation's partnership strategy. WAMO is the pioneer of DVD manufacturing and an innovator of manufacturing processes. Having been at the forefront in driving the acceptance and standardization of DVD in the marketplace and having been the first to produce DVD for both US and International markets, the value that WAMO will bring to the Fluorescent Multilayer Disk initiative as an early adopter is unquestionable. As the market leader in ROM Media manufacturing, WAMO's core competencies will be maximized by C3D to every extent possible.''

They are excellent performers for the price. In the same league are the ATi Radeon VE and the Kyro II boards from VideoLogic and Hercules. The MX400 has the advantage of extremely solid drivers on all platforms. Windows 2000 and XP performance of any GeForce, GeForce2 or GeForce3 card is very close to it’s Windows 98 performance. I can’t say the same for ATi, although its Windows 2000 driver support is much improved from the early days when I had a Radeon 64Mb DDR. The drivers caused me to switch to a GeForce based card (god I miss that blue Hercules Ultra).



Over het verre en mistige 2002 zijn ook nog wat dingen te vertellen. Het eerste deel van het jaar zal worden ingeluid door de release van een 1,3GHz Celeron en de i845-D chipset voor Pentium 4 met ondersteuning voor PC1600 DDR SDRAM. Enkele maanden later vinden we 2,4GHz Northwood en 1,4GHz Celeron processors in de winkel. In het derde kwartaal verschijnen een aantal nieuwe chipsets, te weten de i845-G met ondersteuning voor PC2100 geheugen en Tulloch, de verbeterde Pentium 4 chipset die werkt met
There were also concerns that Microsoft could keep tabs on individual PC usage or use the data it gathered during activation for other purposes. Responding to those concerns, Microsoft will alter Product Activation to allow a certain number of changes to a PC within a certain period of time, Shawn Sanford, group product manager for Windows, said in an interview.
Auch das 850 Pro2 aus dem Hause MSI kommt in gewohnt guter Qualität daher. Unverständlich war allerdings beim ersten Betrachten, dass man zum einen den 5.PCI Slot eingspart hat, was in der heutigen Zeit sicherlich nicht sinngemäß erscheint. Heute sollten mind. 5 PCI Slots zum Standard gehören, denn mittlerweile finden immer mehr Steckkarten Einzug in den Home-PC. Diesen Umstand hätte MSI allerdings auch lindern können, indem man die in dem Intel 850 Chipsatz vorhandene On-Board-Lan Lösung genutzt hätte, diese ist für den Heimgebrauch nämlich absolut ausreichend. Man hätte allerdings auch den hier für Deutschland eher unsinnigen AMR Slot verbannen können, für diesen gibt es kaum Komponenten zu erwerben. Wenn man von dem oben genannten Umstand aber mal absieht, beschert uns MSI aber dem 850 Pro2 ein solides Mainboard, welches für den Overclocker sogar noch die wichtigsten Optionen enthält, damit sich noch einige MHz aus der CPU herausholen lassen.
The appeals court released a terse note Wednesday saying that last week's ruling, made by federal Judge Marilyn Hall Patel, would be "stayed pending a further order of this court."
Microsoft on Wednesday petitioned an appeals court to rehear part of its antitrust case.
The Redmond, Wash.-based company asked the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit to readdress the finding that combining the Internet Explorer Web browser with Microsoft's Windows operating system violated antitrust law.
