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Article: RCA LYRA Personal Audio Player to Support Microsoft Windows Media.

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December 7, 1999
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Microsoft and THOMSON multimedia Announce Current and Future LYRA Devices Will

Be Windows Media-Capable: MusicMatch Jukebox Support Available in January

REDMOND, Wash. and INDIANAPOLIS, Dec. 7 /PRNewswire/ -- Microsoft Corp. (Nasdaq: MSFT) and THOMSON multimedia (NYSE: TMS) today announced that the RCA LYRA, the first digital audio player that can be upgraded via software downloads, will support Microsoft(R) Windows Media(TM) beginning in January 2000. Windows Media delivers CD-quality audio from music files half the size of other compressed music formats. LYRA users will be able to store twice the amount of digital-quality music without adding extra ...

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