{"id":114,"date":"2008-03-12T18:23:56","date_gmt":"2008-03-12T18:23:56","guid":{"rendered":"\/blogs\/news\/archive\/2008\/03\/12\/ballmer-microsoft-will-support-blu-ray.aspx"},"modified":"2008-03-12T18:23:56","modified_gmt":"2008-03-12T18:23:56","slug":"ballmer-microsoft-will-support-blu-ray","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/plexuk.co.uk\/?p=114","title":{"rendered":"Ballmer: Microsoft Will Support Blu-ray"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After much speculation on whether or not Redmond would jump on the Blu-ray high-definition <a href=\"http:\/\/www.crn.com\/encyclopedia\/defineterm.jhtml?term=DVD&#038;x=&#038;y=\">DVD<\/a> bandwagon, CEO Steve Ballmer answered with a definitive &#8220;yes&#8221; last week during a Q&#038;A at Microsoft&#8217;s MIX08 conference.  <\/p>\n<p>In fact, the company is already working to add Blu-ray support to its <a href=\"http:\/\/www.crn.com\/encyclopedia\/defineterm.jhtml?term=Windows&#038;x=&#038;y=\">Windows<\/a> operating system, he said.  <\/p>\n<p>Microsoft is one of the last holdouts in the high-def <a href=\"http:\/\/www.crn.com\/encyclopedia\/defineterm.jhtml?term=format&#038;x=&#038;y=\">format<\/a> war to declare support for Sony&#8217;s Blu-ray. It has been offering high-def players for its Xbox 360 game console based on Toshiba&#8217;s HD DVD, but said late last month that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.crn.com\/digital-home\/206801766\">it would stop manufacturing them<\/a>. But Microsoft had stopped short of blessing Blu-ray until now.  <\/p>\n<p>Full Article &#8211; <a title=\"http:\/\/www.crn.com\/digital-home\/206903060?cid=CRNFeed\" href=\"http:\/\/www.crn.com\/digital-home\/206903060?cid=CRNFeed\">http:\/\/www.crn.com\/digital-home\/206903060?cid=CRNFeed<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After much speculation on whether or not Redmond would jump on the Blu-ray high-definition DVD bandwagon, CEO Steve Ballmer answered with a definitive &#8220;yes&#8221; last week during a Q&#038;A at Microsoft&#8217;s MIX08 conference. In fact, the company is already working to add Blu-ray support to its Windows operating system, he said. Microsoft is one of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[338],"class_list":["post-114","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/plexuk.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/plexuk.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/plexuk.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/plexuk.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/plexuk.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=114"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/plexuk.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/plexuk.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=114"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/plexuk.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=114"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/plexuk.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=114"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}