Microsoft aiming at universal MP3 player dock

Posted on Thursday, November 24 2005 @ 16:21 CET by Thomas De Maesschalck
The Consumer Electronics Association (CEA) announced a plan to create a universal docking standard for digital audio players.
The move is being driven by Microsoft - at least, the software giant is the only company to be granted quotation space on the CEA press release, and there's a Microsoft staffer in the working group's chair. It's not hard to see why. Having failed to beat the iPod using proprietary technology - the Windows Media format - it's try to beat it using a sharper weapon: the open standard it defines.
More information over here.


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