Chances are good that you don’t know who Richard Platt is. Richard was never in the business of self-promotion – had he been, he could have been a household name among the cognoscenti. But Richard didn’t spend his time talking to the press, speaking at conferences, or teeing up with the titans of industry. His [...]

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Microsoft pays a lot of money to keep their research arm busy, and one of the things those PhDs do to keep busy is create new codecs that aren’t encumbered by existing patents. This has worked well for their media player in both the audio and video arena, and apparently they intend to do the same thing when it comes to Voice over IP.

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