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Microsoft's pro-MP3 defence

Microsoft has declared its support for the MP3 format in reaction to media criticism of the limited functionality of its XP operating system.

By editorial@silicon.com

Published: 19 April 2001 15:27 GMT

Last week, numerous publications, among them the Wall Street Journal, condemned the fact that XP supports only limited use of MP3 files.

However, a Microsoft spokesman today said that millions of users have large music file collections at their disposal and use MP3s intensively, and that Microsoft is therefore committed to the standard.

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