The media juggernaut from Redmond turns another corner

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David, you don't express much of a view point.

Of your own I mean. Some, the minority I am certain, will see a vast evil in one company setting the defacto standard where things just work. Perhaps it's the "anyone but Mirosoft" thing?

But the fact is the competing standards thing has gotten old for a lot of people. What file format is this? Does it work with this player or hardware? Do I need to download the codec of the week? It goes on but the point being we have had multiple media formats for years and this is the first time it looks like competition/market is sorting it out. Something ALL markets do at some point.

The very fact Microsoft is able to win over so many of the key movers and shakers in both the content and delivery side speaks very highly of Microsoft's efforts. These are not Joe Average users making these decisions, they are knowledgable folks with with an eye to make a profit and they see the tools they want to do it with. Contray to popular belief in these talkbacks, there is nothing wrong or sinister in that.

But what about vendor lock in? What about the competition being wiped away? What about DRM being forced on users? The fact of the matter is that no matter who wins, all of these will happen. Well, I should say if a for profit company wins.

But what about open source and open standards and open whatever? Again, the answer is the same. They are being beaten by the competiton. As you have pointed out, the number of the pieces MS has made available to different parts of the industry is huge and nothing in the open anything crowd comes close. In fact no competitor comes close on this day.

If people want to change the growth of Microsoft in this area, they need to compete and come up with the same sort of end to end package, just do it better. That is the very competition you are asking for after all.

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