Other DVD news from CeBIT. Microsoft has joined the DVD+RW Alliance. MS had expressed before that it prefers this format. Now they have officially joined the Alliance which consists of other big players like Dell and Hewlett Packard.
The Alliance, formed a year ago, now consists of 80 companies, including many leading personal computing, optical storage and electronics manufacturers.
Its aim is to make DVD+RW the standard digital recording medium over other formats such as DVD-RW, which is supported by Toshiba and Apple.
I think the format war has a winner. There is no company with the power of Microsoft. Good thing for consumers, no more confusion about what to do. Only one remark, has the best format won? Read the article here.
Source: vnunet.com
