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MS, standards, and "every device"
First a minor quibble, you should say that MS will ensure that every NEW device supports VC-1.

MS is famous for not really embracing standards. Their modus operandi has been to follow standards if they're playing catch-up and then club competitors into submission by changing standards when they're in the lead. Just look at their support for HTML and CSS and you see that they happily go their own way when they think it's to their advantage and ignore standards when they think it's to their disadvantage. This may be just good business sense/competition but it also means that we don't have to take them at their word when they talk about embracing standards.

I'm not sure how your "MS ecosystem" gets a benefit from MS's stance/support of VC-1. Are they really going to provide tools to retrofit the current OS's to support it? Considering that they aren't even going to push all of the latest IE features back to Win 2000 that should answer that question.

So does that mean we have to "toss and replace" to enjoy this new ecosystem complete with VC-1? How does this coincide with MS's efforts to provide new secure digital path features for playing video? In that case we're talking hardware as well as software changes to join in the "ecosystem".
Posted by: Robert Crocker   Posted on: 09/02/05 You are currently: a Guest | Members login | Terms of Use
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MS, standards, and "every device"  Robert Crocker | 09/02/05
Re: MS, standards  John Carroll ZDNet Moderator | 09/02/05
The choices are clear  Richard Flude | 09/04/05
Re: The choices  John Carroll ZDNet Moderator | 09/05/05
Fine  Richard Flude | 09/05/05
Re: Fine  John Carroll ZDNet Moderator | 09/05/05
Re: Fine (fixed italics version)  John Carroll ZDNet Moderator | 09/05/05
Perception of balance avoids accusation of bias  John Le'Brecage | 09/06/05
I did...  John Carroll ZDNet Moderator | 09/06/05
Keep on keeping on, John C.  John Le'Brecage | 09/06/05
John's employment  Patrick Jones | 09/06/05
Well...  John Carroll ZDNet Moderator | 09/06/05
For fun  Richard Flude | 09/05/05
Re: for more fun  John Carroll ZDNet Moderator | 09/05/05
Why support MPEG-2?  John Le'Brecage | 09/06/05
HD DVD and Blu-ray...  Richard Flude | 09/06/05
debate the technical merits???  kimo@... | 09/06/05
Not saying it's wrong to debate technical merits...  John Carroll ZDNet Moderator | 09/06/05

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