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[News] Microsoft's Next Scummy Trick: Make Web Videos Not Work in GNU/Linux

Microsoft Silverlight to copy Flash video tricks, Adobe responds

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| Microsoft spectacularly blew the PC video market despite its huge
| global lead in Windows Media Player, with its onboard codec and DRM
| and more and more the Microsoft digital media strategy appears to
| be in tatters.
| 
| The widely covered Silverlight launch last week introduced a
| plug-in that allows video and games over the web, but it looks
| like a copy of the much appreciated Adobe Flash video strategy. 
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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/04/22/microsoft_flashlight_adobe_media_player/

This fight Linux in two fronts:

        1. Make more browsers support WMP, so providers deliver Windows-only 
           content. They disguise this as a case of playing new with other
           Web browsers, but it's clear what they are trying to achieve.
        
        2. Make developers write Windows-only applications and embedded videos.

This extends further to PDF, JPEG, HTML, OpenGL...


Related:

Microsoft Releases Media Player for Firefox

,----[ Quote ]
| The plug-in, available on Firefox's add-on site, is compatible with
| the 32-bit and 64-bit versions of the XP SP2 and Vista OSes.
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http://news.yahoo.com/s/pcworl/20070417/tc_pcworld/130816


Microsoft's Silverlight Promises to Disrupt Linux Web Users

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| Just as it seemed that Linux users (especially 64-bit users) would
| finally be able to enjoy streaming content with a minimum of
| hassle, Microsoft's new Silverlight software promises to throw a
| wrench in the works. Because of sites like Google Video and
| Youtube, Flash video has become a common means of streaming
| multimedia over the Internet.
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http://www.daniweb.com/blogs/entry1418.html


Microsoft's 'Everywhere' excludes Linux

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| This browser add-on enables rendering of WPF content, but
| "Everywhere" doesn't include Linux.
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http://www.itwire.com.au/content/view/7794/53/


ECIS Accuses Microsoft of Plotting HTML Hijack

,----[ Quote ]
| An industry coalition that has represented competitors of Microsoft
| in European markets before the European Commission stepped up its
| public relations offensive this morning, this time accusing
| Microsoft of scheming to upset HTML's place in the fabric of
| the Internet with XAML, an XML-based layout lexicon for
| network applications.
`----

http://www.betanews.com/article/ECIS_Accuses_Microsoft_of_Plotting_HTML_Hijack/1169824569


Software rivals say Microsoft's Vista illegal in Europe (at CNNMoney.com)

,----[ Excerpt ]
| Software manufacturers, citing 2004 European Commission finding,
| contend the operating system violates server laws in Europe.
|
| [...]
|
| "Vista is the first step of Microsoft's strategy to extend its market 
| dominance to the Internet," the ECIS statement said.
|
| It said Microsoft's XAML markup language was "positioned to replace HTML," 
| the industry standard for publishing documents on the Internet.
| 
| Microsoft's own language would be dependent on Windows, and discriminatory 
| against rival systems such as Linux, the group says.
|
| They said a so-called "open XML" platform file format, known as OOXML, is 
| designed to run seamlessly only on the Microsoft Office platform.
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http://money.cnn.com/2007/01/26/news/international/bc.vista.microsoft.eu.reut/index.htm?source=yahoo_quote


,----[ Quote ]
| From:       Bill Gates
| Sent:       Saturday, December 05, 1989 9:44 AM
| To:         Bob Muglia (Exchange); Jon DeVaan; Steven Sinofsky
| Cc:         Paul Mariz
| Subject:    Office rendering
| 
| One thing we have got to change is our strategy -- allowing Office 
| documents to be rendered very well by OTHER PEOPLES BROWSERS is one of the 
| most destructive things we could do to the company.
| 
| We have to stop putting any effort into this and make sure that Office
| documents very well depends on PROPRIETARY IE capabilities.
| 
| Anything else is suicide for our platform. This is a case where Office has
| to  to destroy Windows.
`----

http://www.iowaconsumercase.org/011607/2000/PX02991.pdf


Windows Vista Product Guide: Free to Download, $149 to Read

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| 'Windows Vista Product Guide' was released in two formats:
| 
| Microsoft Office Word 2007
|     The standard .doc format isn't good enough, you need to be able to
|     read a .docx file, so all those users of Office XP are just plain
|     out of luck on 
|     this one.
| 
| XPS
|     What the heck is XPS? I hadn't heard of it before now, (a quick
|     Google tells me XPS is Microsoft's proprietary rival to PDF)
|     but apparently you need a special reader for it (which is
|     kindly enough built into Vista, but nothing else). 
`----

http://itsvista.com/2006/12/windows-vista-product-guide-free-to-download-149-to-read/


Adobe could still sue Microsoft: paper

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| Microsoft's new Vista software, due to be released early next
| year, contains a version of fixed document formats which would
| compete with Adobe's PDF format. Microsoft has pledged to make
| changes to its version.
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http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20061118/tc_nm/adobe_microsoft_dc


Vista to give HD Photo format more exposure

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| Microsoft is looking to supplant the ubiquitous JPEG with an image format 
| of its own--and it's hoping the debut of Windows Vista will help do the 
| job.
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http://news.com.com/Vista+to+give+HD+Photo+format+more+exposure/2100-1045_3-6153730.html

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