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Technology Stocks : How high will Microsoft fly? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: RTev who wrote (18654)	3/23/1999 8:00:00 PM
From: t2	Respond to of 74651

Microsoft to unveil "New Digital Format". Sounds good to me!!! quote.bloomberg.com Microsoft to Unveil New Digital Music Format, L.A. Times Says Redmond, Washington, March 23 (Bloomberg) -- Microsoft Corp., the world's largest software maker, is about to unveil a new technology that will allow computer users to download digital music recordings twice as fast as anything currently available, the Los Angeles Times reported, citing unnamed sources. The new technical format, called MS Audio 4.0, reportedly will sound better than files currently available in a popular digital format called MP3 and will include an encryption technology called Secure ASF to help prevent illegal duplication or theft of the music files. The technology is expected to be included in Microsoft's Windows Media Player 4.0, which could be released as soon as next month, the paper said. Representatives of some of the world's largest music and technology companies, including Microsoft, have been meeting biweekly in Los Angeles to develop a uniform standard for encrypting, or ''watermarking,'' digital music files to prevent piracy over the Internet. (3/23, C10, www.latimes.com)