At last Microsoft seems to be adopting standards in the codec arena. For a long time, MP4 video formats using the open H.264 video standard has been an optional download and treated as an afterthought in Windows. The same goes for the recent AVCHD standard used in modern digital video cameras. These have not only been adopted on the Mac platform for some time, but they are default video standards used within OSX. This is one of the reasons that the Mac is used so extensively for movie making and visual effects with the aid of linux server farms for rendering.
Now Windows will no longer be the odd one out, choosing as it did, to support only Microsoft formats. Windows seven is due to support MP4, AVCHD, and HDV amongst others, out of the box!
Well done Microsoft, although I can't help noticing where is Mpeg2 for DVD support?
Details are available here, with more Windows 7 news available at the excellent website http://windows7news.com/
Windows 7 seems to be shaping up to be a much better version of windows, although it is still based on the Vista ground work. Vista is bound to be labeled the new Millenium Edition, shareing similarities with Microsoft's failed version of windows 2000 based on windows 98.
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