Microsoft Drops "PlaysForSure" for "Certified for Windows Vista"

Authored by Mark Hefflinger on December 13, 2007 - 12:30pm.

San Francisco - Microsoft (NASD: MSFT) has scrapped PlaysForSure, a three-year-old program that placed logos on electronics devices whose digital rights management (DRM) systems were compatible with certain online music and video stores, CNET News.com reports. The logo and program will now become "Certified for Windows Vista," and retain all of the program's device testing requirements.

 

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http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windowsmedia/playsforsure



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