Microsoft Undercuts Rivals with Digital Media Pricing. Microsoft has announced plans to license its new digital media streaming software, Windows Media 9 Series, at a cheaper price, for a greater number of devices and across more platforms than competing standards, such as MPEG-4. The most interesting thing about this is that it will be cheap to license for non-PC devices. We struggled and struggled to get Microsoft and Real to pay attention to the non-PC while I was at QNX. I guess this means that the PC bigots at Microsoft lost this one…
Alec Saunders is the Vice President of Developer Relations for BlackBerry make Research in Motion. This is his personal blog, with his personal viewpoints. Prior to this Alec was the CEO and co-founder of Calliflower — the easiest way to hold a meeting, online, on a conference call, or on the go. A double-decade veteran of product management and marketing, he spent nine years at Microsoft where he helped launch Windows 95, the first two versions of Internet Explorer, the Universal Plug and Play initiative, the push into home markets, opt-in email marketing and what might well go down in history as the very first direct email list ever.
