Thanks to dmitchell for this link.
“While the high-tech, recording and consumer electronics
industries seek a standard for selling secure digital music over
the Web,Microsoft Corp. is plotting a course for folding its
alternative into the Windows operating system.”
“Gary Schare, lead product manager for Windows Media
Technologies, said Microsoft, Redmond, Wash., will include its
technology in the next consumer version of Windows, slated to ship
next year, as well as in Windows 2000, the corporate OS slated to
be shipped by the end of the year.”