“Turn About is Fair Player” — in-depth analysis of MS and AOL’s media player wars from O’Reilly’s Lisa Rein. Rein’s attention to detail and accuracy is fanatical-bordering-on-obsessive, but that’s what makes this stuff so cool.

…Microsoft’s real platform competition is not only with “huge” AOL Time Warner. It’s also, and arguably even more so, with AOL’s upstart partner RealNetworks. This time around, Microsoft’s Windows Media Player, rather than its IE browser, is being bundled with its latest OS in an attempt to thwart the positioning of both its large and small competitors…

Link Discuss