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Microsoft Takes Sides in DVD Battle

Software giant is the latest to join the DVD+RW Alliance.

Joris Evers, IDG News Service
Tuesday, February 25, 2003

In a move that could influence the rewritable DVD format battle,
Microsoft is joining the DVD+RW Alliance, the group that promotes and
develops the DVD+RW format.

The Redmond, Washington, software maker will become the ninth member of
the Alliance's policy-setting team, which also includes Koninklijke
Philips Electronics, Hewlett-Packard, Sony, Dell Computer, and Ricoh,
the DVD+RW Alliance said in a statement on Monday.

Although Microsoft will support other formats in its operating system
software, the software maker has now made it clear that DVD+RW is the
format it prefers, Hans Driessen, a spokesperson for Philips and the
DVD+RW Alliance said.

"Microsoft will actively promote DVD+RW and invest in the development of
the format," Driessen said.

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