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Originally Posted by ApK
What MS calls a 'partner opportunity.'
With the rise of streaming, and fewer and fewer machines shipping with optical drives, it seems like a reasonable place to trim. I'm kind of surprised CSS isn't license-free already. How long has that writing been on the wall?
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Also, Windows is going into a lot of tablets, stick PCs, and small and/or cheap systems without drives. Making the codecs standard on Windows Home means paying royalties for a feature that will never be used.
Bean counters have a point.
How good will be demonstrated by the level of protest.
They may get overturned but they just might prevail.