Microsoft puts audio in Windows; lets users view photographs, video clips, animation with music.

HFN: The Weekly Newspaper for the Home Furnishing Network, January, 1995 by Ryan, Ken

Microsoft Corp. has added an audio CD format to its Windows 95 operating system that is scheduled to be released in Aug 1995. The new format will allow users to view photographs, video clips, animation and text along with the music. Microsoft's AutoPlay feature in the new audio CD format will allow users to insert compact discs into their CD-ROM drives and play them.

REDMOND, Wash.--Software, hardware, on-line services, electronic banking--it's all ammunition in Microsoft's inexorable charge into the PC industry. The latest move? A new audio CD format for its Windows 95 operating system.

The new technology is designed to allow users to view video clips, photographs, animation and text along with the music.

Consumers will have to wait for the release of...

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