Flip4Mac Now Free

Many days ago, I read that Microsoft has stopped developing Windows Media Pleyer for Mac officially. (Well, they stopped about 2 years ago actually. There were no updates in more than 2 years.) And they recommend Flip4Mac for Windows Media files. I like Flip4Mac very much, now it's free. I remember it costed some money just a few months ago. But now WMP is over, and Flip4Mac is feel. So it seems to me that Microsoft has made Flip4Mac free. If that's true, that's awsome. But I haven't seen it said directly anywhere, so I can't be sure. Could I be saying thanks to Microsoft for the first time? I don't know. (Hey, I don't really mind saying thanks to them. It won't stop me laughing at them.)