Apple watch out: Real Networks deal with MSFT !

Good WIRED feature on this --- and definitely right on the money.
"...broad settlement between digital media pioneer RealNetworks and its longtime foe Microsoft goes a lot further than simply ending the last major U.S. antitrust case against the tech heavyweight. The deal also aims to help the two companies better compete against Apple Computer in the increasingly important business of online audio and video. ..."

"An Apple spokesman refused to comment...."

Indeed it does.  Now REAL finally gets that much needed cash to pull out the heavy marketing artillery against Apple's  per-per-track 'trojan horse' model.... Tough luck for Napster, though?

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