RealNetworks seeks Microsoft's help in portable music foray
SeattlePI | at | by Mike
How sad is this? No one wants to have anything to do with Real, not even Apple. Real is like a plague with its shady software.
RealNetworks, which is suing rival Microsoft for $1 billion, said it wants to use Microsoft's software to help it sell music over the Internet for play on portable devices. RealNetworks wants to make its music files playable on devices that use the Windows Media Audio format, created by Microsoft, RealNetworks Chief Executive Rob Glaser, 53, said in an interview yesterday. Glaser earlier this month sent an e-mail to Apple Chief Executive Steve Jobs seeking a similar relationship, which Jobs rebuffed.