IP: Microsoft and MP3 - here we go again?

[David Farber <dave@farber.net>]

>Date: Thu, 12 Apr 2001 10:43:45 -0700
>From: Jim Warren <jwarren@well.com>
>
>>http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/news/0,4586,2707267,00.html?chkpt=zdhpnews01
>>
>>Under Microsoft's new restrictions--which prevent its built-in software 
>>from recording MP3 files at fidelity rates higher than 56 kilobits per 
>>second -- MP3 music "sounds like somebody in a phone booth underwater," 
>>says P.J. McNealy, an analyst who researches Internet audio issues for 
>>Gartner Inc. in Stamford, Conn. (Existing versions of Microsoft's audio 
>>software don't allow consumers to record music as MP3 files of any quality.)
>>
>>The new restrictions in Windows XP won't prevent other vendors' software 
>>applications from recording MP3 music at a higher fidelity, but early 
>>testers of beta versions of Windows XP already complain that the most 
>>popular MP3 recording applications -- which compete with Microsoft's 
>>format -- don't seem to function properly, apparently because of changes 
>>Microsoft made to how data are written on CD-ROMs under Windows XP. 
>>Microsoft says that while other software vendors' products may not be 
>>"optimized" to run with Windows XP, those products should run acceptably 
>>with the operating system.
>>...
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