[DaveW]

Have any of you monkeys been looking at what's happening with the Windows Vista OS in regard to this?
Was just reading THIS about it and was wondering what the monkii colectives view was on this. irate2:

 

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I bought a Mac.

 

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Good luck with that, the mac is way ahead of microsoft and the rest of the industry as a whole when it comes to implimentation/locking down of what you can and cannot do.

 

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Good luck with that, the mac is way ahead of microsoft and the rest of the industry as a whole when it comes to implimentation/locking down of what you can and cannot do.

Perhaps, but their copy protection works without dragging the system to it's knees and providing malware and viruses and safe haven.

 

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Perhaps, but their copy protection works without dragging the system to it's knees and providing malware and viruses and safe haven.

True, AAC et al is still pretty flipping annoying though.

 

[ALEXIS_DH]

Good luck with that, the mac is way ahead of microsoft and the rest of the industry as a whole when it comes to implimentation/locking down of what you can and cannot do.

thats probably has to do with having such a small market share.. there arent as many hackers trying to punch their way in.

 

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True, AAC et al is still pretty flipping annoying though.

No argument there.

 

[Nobody]

I bought a Mac.

Ditto.

However, I've heard some unsettling rumors about WMV and video technology just not being supported in the future for any other OS than Windoze...

Anyone else?

 

[kinghami3]

Ditto.

However, I've heard some unsettling rumors about WMV and video technology just not being supported in the future for any other OS than Windoze...

Anyone else?

The codecs are still out there, so developers (such as flip4mac) can make software to play WMV content on the mac and other OS's. I'm not too worried.

 

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The codecs are still out there, so developers (such as flip4mac) can make software to play WMV content on the mac and other OS's. I'm not too worried.

Flip4mac was purchased BY windows and is now distributed by them. The only reason i can think of to why, is to shutdown support to the mac eventually. That said, Mac and MS have a tighter relationship than ever now with the intel macs running windows. I don't think MS will shoot itself in the foot.

 

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Flip4mac was purchased BY windows and is now distributed by them. The only reason i can think of to why, is to shutdown support to the mac eventually. That said, Mac and MS have a tighter relationship than ever now with the intel macs running windows. I don't think MS will shoot itself in the foot.

they are not out to get MAC ( yet) it linuxthey are out to try and stop/slow down . i run Linux on my desk top , and Lately some of the Newer WMV files I can not play says the codecs are unavailable.

 

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Ya well i shoulda said other OSes. The newest WMV files have no codes out there to support them on anything but windows. Same goes for the mac and newer stuff at times. It is pretty particular though.

 

[kinghami3]

Flip4mac was purchased BY windows and is now distributed by them. The only reason i can think of to why, is to shutdown support to the mac eventually. That said, Mac and MS have a tighter relationship than ever now with the intel macs running windows. I don't think MS will shoot itself in the foot.

I'm pretty sure they just struck a deal with flip4mac to give their basic player away for free, realizing that WMV for mac was horrendous. According to their website, flip4mac is owned by Telestream.

 

[D_D]

Microsoft don't really care along as you go through them. Pay the license fee and agree to their terms etc. Apple would certainly have done this themselves if they where not in direct competition.

Someone just licensed wmv for use on linux.
http://www.fluendo.com/press/releases/PR-2007-01.html

Makes sense really, being the dominant format/drm supplier could be very profitable.