Well, this story gets rather tiring after a while, right? Same old, same old.
This time, Microsoft is going to IE MP3. That is, they will do to MP3 what Internet Explorer did to Netscape.
In the new version of Windows, XP, the built-in Microsoft MP3 ripper will create murky, low-quality, bloated .mp3 files. Whoa! You don’t want that do you? Do you think most people are smart enough to just download and install a good CD Ripper like Music Match? Or might they just use the new built-in Microsoft music ripper, which creates proprietary Microsoft files (WMA – Windows Media Player format)? These files sound fine.
If Microsoft is at all worried about the Department of Justice’s anti-trust action, still pending, it doesn’t act like it. It continues to try to muscle in everywhere using the formidable clout of it’s monopoly on desktop operating systems to screw you, me, everybody.
But if people are dumb enough to adopt the new Microsoft standard and the Department of Justice doesn’t do it’s job, we will have no choice.
AAUAKAKGJAAAAGGGUUGGAUKKKKKK!!!
The sound of something being shoved down your throat. Like it?