Microsoft Friday will release a near-final version of its Windows Media Player 9 software and announce the availability of a new version of its digital home-movie-making application, which uses the ...

Microsoft released Windows Media version 8 Wednesday, a compression technology that lets companies encode high-quality audio and video into smaller packages. Promising 30 percent improved quality, ...

I’m a pretty big fan of Windows Media Center. In fact, it’s at the heart of my home theater system. Just one wrinkle: I can’t play MKV files from within the WMC interface. In case you’re not familiar ...

Q: My grandson is a great source of music and movies for me to enjoy. He often sends me links I download and watch on my old PC. But they’re in a wide variety of formats and some don’t work on my ...

In the early days of the internet, sharing digital files was often a headache. Incompatible formats, proprietary software requirements, and large file sizes made collaboration difficult. If you ...

Microsoft has had a strange relationship with local video playback for the past several years. It’s one of those features that was caught in the purgatory that was created with the start of Windows 10 ...