Office Pro Plus 2010 Microsoft to support VP8 vide

Mozilla, Opera (and Google) aren;t the only ones supporting the open-sourced VP8 video clip codec within their browsers. Microsoft is going to complete the identical, too, according to my tipsters.Update: It seems such as the tipsters had been about the money. See beneath for Microsoft;s latest codec-support statement.(I don;t know precisely when or how Microsoft will probably support VP8 with Net Explorer. But given IE nine is not likely to ship until 2011, according to diverse resources of mine, the Redmondians have a while to figure it out.)In the Google I/O conference on May possibly 19, Mozilla and Opera introduced with significantly fanfare their options to assistance VP8 codec, which Google acquired when it bought On2 Technology. At the I/O confab, Google unveiled the WebM container, which includes VP8 video clip and Ogg Vorbis audio support. (Google officials stated WebM will operate well on even lower-power units,Office Pro Plus 2007, including netbooks and handhelds,Office 2010 Discount, based on Engadget.) WebM will probably be on the market under a royalty-free BSD open-source license.At the finish of April, Microsoft IE General Manager Dean Hachamovitch created a bit of controversy when he blogged that IE nine would support the H.264 codec only. In an update to his remarks, Hachamovitch said IE nine users will,Microsoft Office Standard 2007, of course, be no cost to download and set up other codecs. However the implication was that IE nine would consist of built-in assistance for H.264 only.(A associated aside: My ZDNet colleague Ed Bott did a must-read publish that rebutted the notion that H.264 codecs may end up a expensive proposition for buyers, as opposed towards the open-sourced VP8.)I;ve asked Microsoft regardless of whether the enterprise is, certainly, heading to add VP8 support to IE9, but have yet to hear back again.This just in: Microsoft is confirming it'll assistance VP8 via a just-published weblog post from Hachamovitch. The bottom line:“When it comes to video clip and HTML5, we’re all in. In its HTML5 assistance, IE9 will assistance playback of H.264 video clip too as VP8 video when the user has installed a VP8 codec on Windows.”Hachamovitch does note in the Might possibly 18 publish that Microsoft still considers H.264 to become the superior video codec choice. From his post:“Today, hardware support is widely offered for H.264 both on PCs and phones. (You can study about the benefits of hardware acceleration here, or see an example of the benefits at the 26:35 mark here.) Codecs have been a supply of security and reliability issues (link1, link2, link3, link4) for some users. New code often faces security issues; the H.264 codec in Windows 7 has been in broad use for a while now. Sites also need to think about the issues in supporting multiple formats.”I;ve also asked the Silverlight team what its plans are, going forward, in terms of VP8 support. In the Google I/O conference today,Office Pro, Adobe officials said they are going to put the VP8 code into the Flash player and push it out to “a billion people within a year” (as News.com;s Stephen Shankland tweeted).No word back again but from the Silverlight spokesperson. I;ll update this publish with any Microsoft feedback I get.More just in: I didn;t get a direct response to my question, but here;s Microsoft;s statement regarding VP8 and Silverlight:“Silverlight today supports H.264, VC1 and other audio-related codecs, Also, the Raw AV pipeline makes it easy to assistance a selection codecs.”Meanwhile,Office Pro Plus 2010, I wonder how/if Apple will support VP8 around the iPad… Any guesses?