1. Microsoft Bigs Up H.264, Digs at Google

    Remember how not so long ago Google played the “holier than thou” card with Microsoft by offering Chrome Frame - proclaiming it to be a securer, free-er, open-er and all-round better way to browse?

    Today Microsoft’s retort came in two parts: one, a 3,000 word piece from the guy leading IE’s development - talking about H.264, the other in the form of a Chrome extension. To re-enable the native playback of H.264 video in Chrome that Google dropped in another of its “We’re a big company doing big company things, but we’ll say we’re doing it for the open-ness” fits.

    Posted on Wednesday February 2nd, 2011