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Microsoft Slams Google Over HTML5 Video Decision

Posted by samzenpus on from the our-vids-are-better-than-your-vids dept.

jbrodkin writes "Microsoft is accusing Google of some heavy-handed tactics in the battle over HTML5 video standards. In an attempt at humor, a clearly peeved Microsoft official wrote 'An Open Letter from the President of the United States of Google,' which likens Google's adoption of WebM instead of H.264 to an attempt to force a new language on the entire world. Internet Explorer 9, of course, supports the H.264 codec, while Google and Mozilla are backing WebM. The hyperlinks in Microsoft's blog post lead readers to data indicating that two-thirds of Web videos are using H.264, with about another 25% using Flash VP6. However, the data, from Encoding.com, was released before the launch of WebM last May. One pundit predicts the battle will lead to yet another 'years-long standards format war.'"

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  1. Microsoft: A warning from history by Raumkraut · · Score: 0, Troll

    In a recently uncovered posting from Microsoft countless years ago, a clearly peeved Microsoft official wrote: "An open letter from the President of the United States of Mozilla", which likens Mozilla's Firefox browser's adoption of actual honest-to-god agreed W3C standards, to an attempt to force a new language on the entire world.
    Internet Explorer 5, of course, supports Microsoft's bastard child of what they think HTML should be, to make them most money. The hyperlinks in Microsoft's blog post lead readers to data indicating that over 90% of web users use Internet Explorer (thus implying that popularity somehow make it the superior choice), with the rest using some crap nobody's heard of.

  2. Re:competition by cpu6502 · · Score: 0, Troll

    I like the MPEG group.
      - They've done a lot of good work these last 25 years (MPEG1, MPEG2, MP3, JPEG, MPEG4, AAC, HE-AAC), and I don't see any reason to stop using their specifications. I especially love those most-recent specs which let me send video to my friend who's stuck on dialup, or listen to FM-quality radio at only 14kbit/s. As for microsoft or google, I could care less.

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  3. If M$ is opposed then we are probably in the right by godlike_panos · · Score: 0, Troll

    If M$ is opposed then we are probably in the right way