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 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 ...

Just curious as to how Windows Media video encoding stacks up to the likes of MPEG-2, MJPEG, HuffyUV, DivX, etc. Windows Media seems to have a very attractive compression rate. Since I'm a newbie at ...