On 19 May 2010 19:09, Robert Bronsdon <reash...@gmail.com> wrote: > In general this should be very good news. In practice I'm not so convinced. > > As yet I can't see the downside for the 'general' person. Ask me again in > 5 years time. > > One fishy element is MS being heavely financially invested in h264 and the > MPEG-LA, it makes little sense for them to turn their backs at this > juncture without something being in it for them. > > Sorry to be so pessimistic, as I said "Ask me again in 5 years". > > The press release from MS says that they will happily support V8 with a user-downloaded codec. I can imagine how easy it will be to find directions to do this either in IE9 or on the MS website... Not.
I presume that the spin that Microsoft are supporting this is simply because they don't want to be seen to be anti-competitive. They aren't supporting it, or the codec would be bundled... it is free and open, after all... Marti -- Next meeting: C4L and Bournemouth, Wednesday 2010-06-02 19:00 http://dorset.lug.org.uk/ http://www.linkedin.com/groups?gid=2645413 Chat: http://www.mibbit.com/?server=irc.blitzed.org&channel=%23dorset List info: https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/dorset
