Comments on: “The fight has been around a long time, now the target of Microsoft is Theora”

By: Dr. Roy Schestowitz

Dr. Roy Schestowitz — Thu, 06 May 2010 16:52:29 +0000

A lot depends on Google at the moment. Google serves over 70% of the Web’s video, according to one source I can recall. A lot of media goes Web based as bandwidth capacity increases.

By: your_friend

your_friend — Thu, 06 May 2010 15:51:18 +0000

I can tell you that twitter is not your friend. If you keep reading, you might learn something and eventually will regret the things you do. I am your friend after all.

Microsoft’s decision to ignore Theora will finally finish off Internet Explorer. Wikipedia and many other must have sites use theora and many others are moving to it. This is a nightmare for Microsoft in many ways, one they will gamble what’s left of IE on. The FUD attack on Theora is really about control of media and the demise of traditional publisher mindshare. Users will simply download Firefox or abandon Windows itself.

The missing piece of the puzzle will come when Google switches codecs. I suspect they have held off to let Microsoft paint themselves into their corner. Google also has a TV white space trump to play on Microsoft and traditional media. There are interesting times ahead and users may see both computing and network freedom soon.

By: verofakto

verofakto — Thu, 06 May 2010 04:35:24 +0000

He also claims that “Inferior DirectX

Where is old twitter by the way? His "your_friend" nym seems to have disappeared of late. Are they still asking about him on your chat room?