Microsoft Corporation said on Monday that it will open the specifications for its video compression technology, which would allow other companies to make products based on its technology.
The world's largest software maker, which launched its latest video and audio standard, Windows Media 9 series, in January, said it submitted the standard to the society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers on Monday for review.
Acceptance by the international standards body would allow Microsoft's Windows Media 9 to be more easily adopted by other companies since the specifications would be open for all to see.
"We really wanted to think of a way for companies to use Windows Media 9 without ever having to contact Microsoft," said Jonathan Usher, Director of Microsoft's Windows digital media division.
Redmond, Washington-based Microsoft competes with RealNetworks Inc. RNWK.O and Apple Computer Inc.'s AAPL.O QuickTime format in the market for video compression and streaming software.
With open standards, other software companies could create applications that use Microsoft's video-encoding technology, although they would have to pay a license fee, which Usher said would be "low-cost and straightforward."
Hardware makers could create digital video cameras that use the technology, for example, he said.
The SMPTE will consider the standard when they meet next week, kicking off a process that could last 6-12 months, Usher said.
"I am optimistic (the standard will be accepted), I think this is technology that has been proven in the industry," Usher said.
News source: Reuters
The world's largest software maker, which launched its latest video and audio standard, Windows Media 9 series, in January, said it submitted the standard to the society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers on Monday for review.
Acceptance by the international standards body would allow Microsoft's Windows Media 9 to be more easily adopted by other companies since the specifications would be open for all to see.
"We really wanted to think of a way for companies to use Windows Media 9 without ever having to contact Microsoft," said Jonathan Usher, Director of Microsoft's Windows digital media division.
Redmond, Washington-based Microsoft competes with RealNetworks Inc. RNWK.O and Apple Computer Inc.'s AAPL.O QuickTime format in the market for video compression and streaming software.
With open standards, other software companies could create applications that use Microsoft's video-encoding technology, although they would have to pay a license fee, which Usher said would be "low-cost and straightforward."
Hardware makers could create digital video cameras that use the technology, for example, he said.
The SMPTE will consider the standard when they meet next week, kicking off a process that could last 6-12 months, Usher said.
"I am optimistic (the standard will be accepted), I think this is technology that has been proven in the industry," Usher said.
News source: Reuters
Microsoft originally issued this bulletin on August 20th, 2003. Subsequent to issuing the security bulletin, Microsoft received reports that the patch provided with this bulletin does not properly correct the Object Type Vulnerability.
"Microsoft also identified a problem that specifically affects Windows XP systems that are configured as web servers serving ASP.NET web pages and causes clients connecting to the web server to receive an error when they attempt to view pages on the site. This problem only affects Windows XP computers that have installed Internet Information Services (IIS) 5.1 (which is not installed by default) and configured with the .NET Framework version 1.0 to serve ASP.NET based Web pages--it does not affect other versions of Windows. Microsoft has published a knowledge base article 827641 that provides steps to work around this issue while maintaining the level of protection provided by the security patch.
Microsoft is investigating these reports and will re-issue this bulletin with an updated patch that corrects these problems."
I love WMA9/WMV9, and I can't wait until devices (ie dvd players and Media2Go, etc...) and popular video editing software (like Premiere 7) support WMV9
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