Conversion Question: MP3

Windows:Reloaded??? Where did you hear that? I read the Microsoft PressPass every day and have yet to see anything about calling the next [possible] version Windows:Reloaded. Microsoft would be stupid to tread on trademarked territory.

EDIT: And Microsoft has nothing to do with the next release of the MP3 format. Microsoft cares not about MP3, they care about WMA. Microsoft would be unlikely to modify your MP3s for you to the rights-protected version.

EDIT #2: OK, found a few articles on the possible version, note, CODENAMED, Reloaded. The codename never makes it to final release.

http://news.com.com/2100-1016_3-5165966.html

I saw it posted somewhere but this was the first link on a google search. True probably nothing to do with mp3's, but they could block playing any mp3 from a microsoft product.

lol... yeah but still Reloaded? What were they thinking? Nerds... bah!

Blocking the new MP3 format from playing in Microsoft devices would absolutely be a possibility 'IF' Microsoft refused to support the format, which would be highly unlikely. Microsoft will make WMPlayer compatible with the new format, but wouldn't push it. If Freunhofer (or however you spell it) makes their new MP3 format unplayable in Microsoft products they would be idiots, as then you have only about 5% of the world able to play your new rights-protected MP3s.

And yes, the person who decided to call it 'Reloaded' should be punched in the face.

I was talking about when a new "copyright protected" version of mp3's come out that microsoft would probably block the "old mp3's" from playing on ms software unless you converted them to the new format, at which point they would be deemed either "bought" or pirated.

Sounds like you have been reading Maddox? *all the punching*