Microsoft’s surprise decision to submit Windows Media Series 9 as a standards candidate to Hollywood underscores the software giant’s ambitions to take its multimedia technology beyond the Net… the move could be a first step for Microsoft in a lobbying campaign with technical standards bodies in other industries, such as wireless, where it has yet to gain a foothold for video delivery compared with rival RealNetworks.
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