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Originally Posted by DMcCunney
Maybe they are hoping HTML5 will take over the world, and they won't need Flash for video support.
Yes, HTML5 has a <video> tag, and can embed video without using Flash, but you still need a video codec, and HTML5 does not specify what to use. Right now, the leader is H.264, but that's proprietary, based on patented technology, with license fees. Firefox does not support it because they can't offer the code in source form like the rest of the browser, and Google, whose Chrome browser did support it, has announced pending dropping of support because they want to make everything available in source form, too, and a couple of open source codecs have reached comparable performance levels to H.264. The main folks I can think of using H.264 for video are YouTube, who have a beta HTML5 site, but Google owns YouTube, so I expect that to change.
Meanwhile, MS has an interesting relationship with Adobe. For example, you can get a free add-on from Microsoft for MS Office that will let you Save As PDF in Office apps. Why not just include it with Office? Apparently, because if they did, they'd have to pay Adobe license fees, whereas offering it as a free download from the Microsoft Update site, they don't... 
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Dennis |
And Adobe just released a Flash to HTML5 converter.....