AfterDawn: News

Musicmatch offers a challenge to RealNetworks - they are going to start support Windows Media formats for video streaming/playing/etc. MusicMatch is already a real competitor for Real in audio and now it seems to be that they are going to get the similiar status in video, too.

Anyway, MusicMatch's connections to MicroSoft are even more harder after this move -- for me this sounds that MicroSoft is making a take-over of the audio/video generation by a product that doesn't have MicroSoft's logo. Nice move, since everybody knows how bad reputation M$ has in certain areas, so why not to use some other vendor to do the dirty work...

Written by: Petteri Pyyny @ 30 Nov 1999 7:21