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Microsoft Is Releasing an H.264 Plugin For Firefox
ndogg writes "Microsoft has announced that it is releasing an H.264 plugin for Firefox. This plugin does not add H.264 capabilities to Firefox, but rather allows it to use the H.264 capabilities built into Windows 7. With that in mind, it sounds like it may not work on anything other than Windows 7."
No I should be pissed. I should be pissed because they are trying to set a standard to maximize thier stranglehold on a pay to play codec. You can bable all you want about markets and costs and why doesnt someone pay up and blah blah blah. I look at it this way: Microsoft has a fancy little mathmatical formula. Thats nice, how about we all use this neat little formula? After all, like all math it was built on the backs of others? Since we live in a silly world that can claim exclusive rights to little formulas we have to argue that its worthwhile to not play with those that dont like to share interesting mathmatical descoveries, and we stick to our own. And thats the issue, a effort by them to lock in a codec to eliminate other possibilities.