Microsoft Makes Chrome Play H.264 Video

nk497 writes "Chrome users will be able to play H.264 video — thanks to Microsoft. The software giant today unveiled the Windows Media Player HTML5 Extension for Chrome, which will let users of the Google browser play H.264 video after it was dropped from Chrome over licensing issues. 'At Microsoft we respect that Windows customers want the best experience of the web including the ability to enjoy the widest range of content available on the internet in H.264 format,' said Claudio Caldato, Microsoft interoperability program manager."

Comments

Re:And Yet, No Ogg Theora in IE

[shentino]

If they made a stink about it back then they might not have gotten any traction. You don't throw stones when you're in glass houses unless you want to have a rain of glass shards cutting you to smithereens before you have a chance to lay a decent stack of bricks.

Something about not cutting off your nose to spite your face.

Re:Priorities

[Mordok-DestroyerOfWo]

With one hand

Well I know what you're watching with your new plug-in...

I've heard this one before

[Boawk]

That wording seems odd:

Microsoft Makes Chrome Play H.264 Video

Chrome tries to file a police report. Officer replies, "Well, yea. Just look at the way you're dressed."