Petteri Pyyny
5 Sep 2002 15:07
Microsoft announced yesterday latest multimedia technology monster from their software factory, Windows Media 9, which -- as usual -- "takes multimedia to the next level". Microsoft is now the only big multimedia vendor that doesn't use MPEG-4 standard in its media delivery platform, but uses its own propietary formats instead.
Anyway, if you're interested to check out whether their claim that WMV9 will beat the crap out of MPEG-4 (I seriously doubt it..) -based encoding methods, you can download the WM9 tools, such as Windows Media Player v9 beta and Windows Media Encoder v9 beta from their site now. Visit the Windows Media site using this link.