The Multimedia Exchange archive
Windows Media
Combing Word and Windows Media Player
Tim Anderson is trying to make the task of transcribing audio with Windows Media Player and Word a little easier....
January 10, 2005
Virus-infected Windows Media files?
Panda Software is reporting two new Trojan Horse applications that take advantage of peer-to-peer systems and Windows Media DRM technology...
Flaw in Windows Media Player 9
A flaw in the way artist, album name, and song name information in a media file is retrieved could be...
December 23, 2004
Burst cries foul
Burst.com is crying foul to the judge in its lawsuit against Microsoft over Redmond's "practice" of purging e-mail older than...
November 19, 2004
Play it again
Microsoft's got a new logo program targeted at consumers that love digital media. The new "PlayForSure" program puts a logo...
November 17, 2004
Windows Media on the Mac
Telestream will early next month start shipping Flip4Mac, a tool for importing and exporting Windows Media files on a Macintosh...
November 09, 2004
Windows Media Player 10 reviewed
Windows Media Player 10 is out. It's only available for XP. My primary machine runs Win2000, so I haven't gotten...
September 09, 2004
Windows Media 9 reach grows
While Apple touts QuickTime's Growth (see yesterday's "250 million and counting" entry), Microsoft's Windows Media continues to grow as well....
June 11, 2004
All about testing
Literally. We've got two new presentations online that look at the ins and outs of testing various technologies. Joel Snyder...
May 21, 2004
Windows Media on Linux debate continues
There's some debate on which versions of Windows Media mPlayer for Linux supports. Looks like to get the latest codecs,...
April 16, 2004
Windows Media on non-Windows
My entry yesterday about Starbak's Windows Media-compatible client for Linux and Solaris brought a response from Ryan Skadberg over at...
April 15, 2004
Windows Media on Linux and Unix?
Was that a pig flying over the reservoir across the street from Network World HQ? Maybe so. Starbak says it...
April 14, 2004
The writing was on the wall
After Real said it was suing a division of Major League Baseball over who has the rights to stream baseball...
March 25, 2004
Live NCAA basketball
Corporate T-1 lines are going to be saturated Thursday and Friday. The NCAA is offering live video feeds of the...
March 16, 2004
Microsoft teams to provide mobile video
Looking to extend its format reach to all ends of the Earth, Microsoft is working with TWI Interactive to provide...
March 11, 2004
Scooby-Doo
Big fan of Scooby-Doo? Now you can get a Scooby-Doo skin for your Windows Media Player, part of a promotion...
Virgin to open online music store
The music download business continues to get crowded. Virgin says it will join the fray this summer with a new...
March 10, 2004
Scripting headaches
After posting the Basic Wireless LAN Security audio primer last Sunday night, I realized during testing that the scripting method...
March 05, 2004
The salvos continue
The Microsoft-RealNetworks battle is back in the news after Microsoft filed a legal brief saying denying it used its desktop...
February 24, 2004
Making a switch
Click and Clack, the voices of the popular CarTalk radio program, are making a switch. No, not from Windows to...
February 03, 2004
It was only a matter of time
Coming to popular Web site near you: Video ads. Geek.com is reporting that a company called Unicast is working with...
January 21, 2004
Shop for music somewhere else
Microsoft is changing the default "Shop for Music Online" feature in Windows XP so that it pops up the default...
January 16, 2004
Microsoft adds independent films
As part of its splash at the Sundance Film Festival, Microsoft announced a new area in its WindowsMedia.com site dedicated...
Wireless Media Center Extender
Bill Gates' CES keynote may have been short on innovations, but Microsoft's Windows Media Center Extender sounds pretty cool. It...
January 08, 2004
Real suing Microsoft
The digital media war is getting ugly. Real is suing Microsoft, accusing the software giant of having a monopoly over...
December 19, 2003
Windows Media for Linux
One of the (sort of) drawbacks to Windows Media is that its only available for Windows (granted, a LOT of...
December 08, 2003
New Windows fun packs
Microsoft's getting into the holiday spirit with the release of three new Fun Packs for Windows XP. There's a fun...
November 14, 2003
MS Producer 2003 shipping
Amid the hoopla of last week's Office 2003 launch was the newest version of Microsoft Producer, which converts a standard...
October 27, 2003
Starbak develops encoder appliance
Starbak's got a new 1U rackmount appliance for encoding any video input (DVD, VCR, camera, MPEG-1, MPEG-2, AVI) into the...
October 16, 2003
New Windows XP Media Center release
Microsoft yesterday released Windows XP Media Center 2004, the latest version of its operating system designed to drive home entertainment....
October 01, 2003
Windows Media 9 a standard?
It could happen. Microsoft has submitted its video compression technology to the Society of Motion Picture Television Engineers (SMPTE) for...
September 12, 2003
EC comes out firing at Microsoft
The European Commission is gunning at Microsoft's Windows Media Division, claiming that Windows Media Player has unfairly benefited from its...
August 19, 2003
Windows Media 9 on the beach
The Windows Media 9 hype machine is working to promote the premiere of Step into Liquid, a documentary on surfing...
July 30, 2003
Two new tools to play with
Trying two new tools out with this entry. The first is Zempt, a client that allows you to create Moveable...
July 03, 2003
MusicNet offers Windows Media 9 format
Microsoft announced (warning: press release) today that the entire MusicNet library (available via MusicNet for AOL) is now available in...
June 12, 2003
Giving Windows Movie Maker 2 a go
Finally had an opportunity to try out Microsoft's Movie Maker 2 software and I am impressed. It's no Adobe Premiere,...
June 04, 2003
Microsoft-AOL deal about digital media
The New York Times takes a look at AOL and Microsoft's recent settlement over the browser wars and concludes that...
June 03, 2003
Flaw found in Windows Media Services
Microsoft is warning customers of a vulnerability in its Windows Media Services for Windows NT and 2000. A bug in...
May 29, 2003
Amazon.com to use Windows Media 9 Series
Amazon.com has inked a deal to use Microsoft's Windows Media 9 Series to offer song samples to customers. LoudEye will...
May 22, 2003
Microsoft patches Windows Media Player
A flaw in the way certain versions of Windows Media Player handle skins could be exploited to run malicious code...
May 07, 2003
Microsoft looks to further integrate PC into home
Bill Gates and company are making changes in the Windows architecture with the aim of making the OS more compatible...
May 06, 2003
Terminator 2 DVD to include Windows Media version
Terminator 2 (T2) fans will get an extra treat when a new DVD release hits the store shelves June 3:...
May 05, 2003
New Enterprise Deployment Pack for Windows Media Player 9 Series available
Microsoft has released an Enterprise Deployment Pack for Windows Media Player 9 Series that allows administrators to centrally configure, package...
April 26, 2003
New Windows Media 9 Series fun pack
Microsoft has releases a series of Windows XP Creativity Packs that are loaded with fun things, including a pack for...
April 23, 2003
InterVideo to port Windows Media to Linux
For those that love to encode video in Windows Media but hate the fact they can only target Windows and...
April 08, 2003
Discreet ships Cleaner XL
The long wait is over. Mac users have had a new version of Discreet's Cleaner product for a few months,...
March 05, 2003
Microsoft: 14 million player downloads
Microsoft's latest Windows Media press release reminds me of the McDonald's signs that list how many hamburgers the company has...
February 06, 2003
New plug-ins for Windows Media
Microsoft Windows Media fans can now visit www.wmplugins.com and download 100 new enhancement for Windows Media player, including tools for...
January 23, 2003
Microsoft releases Data Session Toolkit
In response to the music industry's desire to more tightly control how content is used by consumers (mainly to prevent...
January 21, 2003
Microsoft licensing tiff
Microsoft's creating a minor controversy with its new licensing program. No, not the one over its corporate licensing scheme. This...
January 13, 2003
Microsoft, Panasonic tout HighMAT adoption
Partners Microsoft and Panasonic are touting greater adoption of their jointly developed HighMAT (High-performance Media Access Technology) technology, designed to...
January 09, 2003
Microsoft releases WM Series 9, changes licensing
That sound you heard today was the other shoe dropping in the streaming media war. The first shoe dropped when...
January 07, 2003
Windows flaws exploited by media files
Rogue MP3 and Windows Media Audio files are the latest headache for Microsoft Windows users. Vulnerabilities in WinAmp for Windows...
January 02, 2003
