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Microsoft Includes Dolby Digital Plus in Windows 8

Dolby Laboratories announced that Microsoft will include Dolby Digital Plus 5.1-channel decoding and Dolby Digital two-channel encoding in Windows 8, Windows 8 Pro and Windows RT.

Dolby Reports Q2 2012 Results

Dolby Laboratories announced its second quarter 2012 financial results.

Halo 4 Launches November 6th

343 Industries and Microsoft announced that Halo 4 for the Xbox 360 will make its worldwide debut November 6, 2012.

Microsoft Launches Windows Azure Media Services

Microsoft announced its new cloud-based Windows Azure Media Services at NAB Show 2012.

MLB.TV Hits Xbox 360

MLB Advanced Media announced that MLB.TV is now available on Microsoft’s Xbox 360 game console.

BBC iPlayer Hits Xbox LIVE

The BBC and Microsoft announced that the BBC iPlayer Video-On-Demand (VoD) service is now available on Xbox LIVE.

An Early Look at Halo 4

At the Spring Showcase 2012 event, Microsoft Studios and 343 Industries teased the press with an early look at Halo 4, the highly anticipated Xbox 360 game title scheduled to be released later this year.

Microsoft Releases Windows 8 Consumer Preview

Microsoft Corp. announced that its Windows 8 Consumer Preview is now available for download.

James Dunkelberger New Chairman of CDSA

The Content Delivery and Security Association (CDSA) announced that it has named James Dunkelberger as its chairman.

Industry Group Pushes MPEG DASH

Microsoft, Netflix, Qualcomm and a collection of friends announced that they have formed the DASH Promoters Group (DASH-PG) to push industry adoption of the new MPEG Dynamic Adaptive Streaming over HTTP (DASH) standard.