Windows Media Player technology for all!

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Aron Schatz
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January 7, 2003
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Wow, Microsoft is allowing its media player 9 codecs to be used everywhere (including Linux). With fees of course.

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By adding a license for the audio and video compression software, or codecs, of Windows Media 9, Microsoft is extending the technology beyond its Windows operating system, where the software is available for free. Microsoft hopes that cell phone makers or Web publishers running Linux operating systems, for example, will be more willing to license Microsoft’s proprietary media technology, since they will no longer be required to also adopt the Windows operating system.

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