Microsoft Evangelist Brilliantly Slams Google’s Decision To Drop H.264 Support

[Sneha Chowdary]

A lot has been written about Google’s decision to [url=http://techcrunch.com/2011/01/11/google-chrome-browser-h-264-video/]no longer support H.264[/url] HTML5 video playback in Chrome, and we haven’t seen the end of opinions about it (here’s [url=http://techcrunch.com/2011/01/11/google-flash/]MG’s take[/url]).
Make sure you read [url=http://blogs.msdn.com/b/tims/archive/2011/01/11/an-open-letter-from-the-president-of-the-united-states-of-google.aspx]this one[/url] from Tim Sneath, director of the Windows and Silverlight technical evangelism team, though.
In a blog post entitled ‘An Open Letter from the President of the United States of Google’, the Microsoft evangelist humorously paraphrases Google’s [url=http://blog.chromium.org/2011/01/html-video-codec-support-in-chrome.html]blog post[/url] on the decision to discard H.264 support, replacing references to video codecs with languages. Guess which one is Esperanto?
<blockquote>We expect even more communication between people in the coming year and are therefore focusing our investments in languages that are created based on constructed language principles. To that end, [url=http://blog.chromium.org/2011/01/html-video-codec-support-in-chrome.html]we are changing the spoken and written language of this nation[/url] to make it consistent with the form of speech already supported by the [url=http://www.whatwg.org/]Language Creation Society[/url].
Specifically, we are supporting the [url=http://www.webmproject.org/]Esperanto[/url] and [url=http://theora.org/]Klingon[/url] languages, and will consider adding support for other high-quality constructed languages in the future. Though [url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H.264]English[/url] plays an important role in speech today, as our goal is to enable open innovation, its further use as a form of communication in this country will be prohibited and [url=http://www.youtube.com/]our resources[/url] directed towards languages that are untainted by real-world usage.</blockquote> What one calls a hilarious must-read, no matter which side of the fence you’re on.

[neon]

Duvva baa.. engadget ni motham duvvestunnav gaa @3$%