4 posts and columns on Windows Media Audio

Maybe UltraViolet, the Ginormous Media Cloud Locker Thingy, Won't Fail, After All. What Do You Say, Steve Jobs?

in Media on January 6, 2011 at 12:01 am PT

A big “everyone but Apple” coalition of hardware and software companies might be able to make a cloud-based media service work. If Apple will play along.

"UltraViolet" Is Short for "Giant Media DRM Cloud Coalition Featuring Everyone Except Apple and Disney"

in Media on July 20, 2010 at 3:49 am PT

A media management system created by Hollywood plus hardware companies plus software companies, minus two very big players. Any chance it can work?

Too Bad Stupidity's Not Illegal–Apple Might Have a Valid Counterclaim…

in News on January 4, 2008 at 12:01 am PT

In the annals of irony, the antitrust suit that accuses Apple of illegally maintaining a monopoly in the digital music market by failing to support Microsoft’s Windows Media Audio format ranks right up there with Ludwig van Beethoven’s loss of hearing and American Civil War General John Sedgwick proclaiming “They couldn’t hit an elephant at [...]

Too Bad Stupidity’s Not Illegal–Apple Might Have a Valid Counterclaim…

in News on January 4, 2008 at 12:01 am PT

In the annals of irony, the antitrust suit that accuses Apple of illegally maintaining a monopoly in the digital music market by failing to support Microsoft’s Windows Media Audio format ranks right up there with Ludwig van Beethoven’s loss of hearing and American Civil War General John Sedgwick proclaiming “They couldn’t hit an elephant at [...]