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Old 4th January 2009, 17:27   #1
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Default Windows 7 comes with DivX codecs

One of the new features announced at the recent Windows 7 Reviewer’s Workshop in LA is that Windows 7 will natively support a number of popular media formats, so that users don’t have to worry about finding, installing and downloading third-party codecs.

This is an evolution in media support which is similar to the inclusion of native MPEG-2 playback in Windows Vista, providing the DVD playback functionality which was missing in Windows XP.

It's an interesting change by Microsoft, which, in the past, has doggedly clung to the hope that Windows Media Video will end up as the prevailing video format for the internet. It appears to have finally conceded that the vast majority of people are watching downloaded stuff in DivX or Xvid -- possibly a realisation driven by the enormous amount of telemetry data it has collected from users of Vista that it never had access to through XP. It has stopped short of bundling Adobe Flash support into Windows, though, as it develops its own Silverlight technology.

Windows 7 will also support H.264 video and AAC audio. The support for AAC will be welcome news for people with music and video that has been encoded in Apple iTunes, as Windows 7 will be able to play all iTunes media through Windows Media Player.Unfortunately, this won't apply to media that has been purchased from Apple's iTunes store, because Windows 7 can't decode the Apple FairPlay DRM, which Apple refuses to license to anyone else.

http://apcmag.com/windows_7_surprise_divx_built_in.htm
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Old 4th January 2009, 19:15   #2
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Why does "Windows XP Pro N" come to my mind ?
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No idea, because XP Pro N removed Windows Media Player entirely.

Long overdue that MS would include format support for some of these codecs out of the box.
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Why does "Windows XP Pro N" come to my mind ?
don't know either why you would think of that?
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Old 4th January 2009, 23:43   #5
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Some might argue that including DivX codecs with windows might be unfair competition.
On the other hand, it has nothing to do with windows xp n because MS is not the one that profits.
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And to who is it unfair to? Not any major competitors to Divx that I know of.

That reads like a whose-who list of codecs 90% of PC media watchers would need.

I really dislike those kind of arguements, because if we were to follow that train of logic then an OS should be a stripped down, barebones OS without any included software or tools of any kind. To me that is the same as saying we should sell new cars without any electronics, carpet, seats, or windows.

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I don't like it either ...
but who expected companies would complain about Windows Media Player being included in windows ?
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EU complained, because of unfair competition
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EU complained, because of unfair competition
Ow yes indeed. Looks like I was completely wrong thinking about XP N . It's nice microsoft includes codecs in windows instead of letting people buy them seperatly (like dvd codecs for xp).
If they would provide a nice utility to see which codecs are installed (and maybe the option to change the prefered codec), then it would be perfect
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yup, that DVD codec really rocks, previously you have to get payware to get DVD to play on your Windows OS
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