Microsoft Windows 8 will come with support for Dolby Digital Plus for background noise reduction. (Image: Andrew Simone, via Flickr / CC)

Microsoft has announced that it will offer support for Dolby Digital Plus in Windows 8.
The Redmond-based software giant said that its upcoming Windows 8 OS will come with playback of Dolby-encoded files, saying it will include the feature out of the box. Microsoft Dolby Digital Plus support will be available on all Windows 8 versions, which include the …

Windows 8, the would-be latest version of the Windows operating system, will be out in 2012, Microsoft Chief Executive Officer Steve Ballmer has confirmed on Monday.
“As we look forward to the next generation of Windows systems, which will come out next year, there’s a whole lot more coming,” Ballmer told attendees of a Microsoft Developer Forum in Tokyo.
The CEO said that the guys at Redmond are “obviously hard at work on the next version of Windows.”
Ballmer also confirmed that …