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Mozilla, Opera (and Google) aren;t the one ones supporting the open-sourced VP8 video codec within their browsers. Microsoft is going to complete the very same, as well, based on my tipsters.Update: It seems like the tipsters were around the money. See beneath for Microsoft;s most recent codec-support statement.(I don;t know specifically when or how Microsoft will probably assistance VP8 with World-wide-web Explorer. But given IE 9 is not likely to ship till 2011, based on numerous sources of mine, the Redmondians have a while to figure it out.)In the Google I/O conference on May well 19, Mozilla and Opera announced with much fanfare their plans to support VP8 codec, which Google acquired when it bought On2 Technology. In the I/O confab, Google unveiled the WebM container, which includes VP8 video and Ogg Vorbis audio assistance. (Google officials stated WebM will operate well on even lower-power gadgets, including netbooks and handhelds, based on Engadget.) WebM is going to be out there beneath a royalty-free BSD open-source license.At the end of April, Microsoft IE General Supervisor Dean Hachamovitch produced a bit of controversy when he blogged that IE 9 would support the H.264 codec only. In an update to his comments, Hachamovitch said IE nine people will, needless to say, be free to download and install other codecs. However the implication was that IE nine would contain built-in assistance for H.264 only.(A associated aside: My ZDNet colleague Ed Bott did a must-read publish that rebutted the idea that H.264 codecs may end up a expensive proposition for consumers, as opposed to the open-sourced VP8.)I;ve asked Microsoft whether the firm is, certainly, heading to add VP8 assistance to IE9, but have yet to listen to back.This just in: Microsoft is confirming it'll support VP8 through a just-published blog post from Hachamovitch. The bottom line:“When it comes to video clip and HTML5, we’re all in. In its HTML5 assistance, IE9 will support playback of H.264 video too as VP8 video clip when the user has installed a VP8 codec on Windows.”Hachamovitch does note in the May perhaps 18 publish that Microsoft still considers H.264 to become the superior video clip codec choice. From his post:“Today, hardware support is widely available for H.264 both on PCs and phones. (You can read about the benefits of hardware acceleration here, or see an example of the benefits in the 26:35 mark here.) Codecs have been a supply of security and reliability issues (link1, link2, link3, link4) for some end users. New code often faces security issues; the H.264 codec in Windows 7 has been in broad use for some time now. Sites also need to think about the issues in supporting multiple formats.”I;ve also asked the Silverlight team what its options are, going forward,Windows 7 Activation, in terms of VP8 support. In the Google I/O conference today, Adobe officials stated they are going to put the VP8 code into the Flash player and push it out to “a billion consumers within a year” (as News.com;s Stephen Shankland tweeted).No word back but from the Silverlight spokesperson. I;ll update this publish with any Microsoft remarks I get.More just in: I didn;t get a direct response to my question, but here;s Microsoft;s statement regarding VP8 and Silverlight:“Silverlight today supports H.264, VC1 and other audio-related codecs, Also, the Raw AV pipeline makes it easy to assistance a selection codecs.”Meanwhile, I wonder how/if Apple will probably assistance VP8 around the iPad… Any guesses?