Microsoft looks to extend digital media reach (news.com) Microsoft's strategems with media formats are particularly insidious. What better way to impose a "tax" on the Internet than to own the media formats. If Microsoft succeeds in controlling the media files formats, they accomplish to goals: First, they lock in their operating system dominance. They even extend their operating system dominance by push WinCE for non-PC devices. Second, they collect a tax on the Internet. The tax won't be paid directly by consumers; it will be paid by companies that have any kind of stake in the Internet media space.
Posted by Doug Sauder at April 17, 2002 05:51 PM