Added note about sound support on MS Windows

1 files changed, 8 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/etc/NEWS b/etc/NEWS
index cae3ca2fdf4..7d05766f9bb 100644
--- a/etc/NEWS
+++ b/etc/NEWS
@@ -895,11 +895,18 @@ the cursor, for example screen magnifiers and text to speech programs.
 See the Emacs 21.1 NEWS entry for tooltips for details.
 
 ---
-** Some images are now supported on Windows.
+** Some images are now supported on MS Windows.
 PBM and XBM images are supported, other formats which require external
 libraries may be supported in future.
 
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+** Sound is now supported on MS Windows.
+WAV format is supported on all versions of Windows, other formats such
+as AU, AIFF and MP3 may be supported in the m ore recent versions of
+Windows, or when other software provides hooks into the system level
+sound support for those formats.
+
+---
 ** Pointing devices with more than 3 buttons are now supported on MS Windows.
 The new variable `w32-pass-extra-mouse-buttons-to-system' controls
 whether Emacs should handle the extra buttons itself (the default), or