With pressure from European antitrust regulators mounting, Microsoft’s bid to make its multimedia technology a worldwide standard may be running into a headwind. The company has relied in large part on the omnipresence of its software to promote its proprietary Windows Media audio and video format to everyone from record companies to movie theaters. A forced unbundling could diminish that appeal, analysts said.
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