Microsoft Gets Steve Jobs' Back, Decrees H.264 as Its Video Web Standard

What? Microsoft and Apple seeing almost eye-to-eye on something? Yes...it's true and concerns a bit of a hot topic on the Web at the mo: Video standards. After Jobs' Adobe take-down, MS has said it'll only support H.264 video in Internet Explorer.

Microsoft's blog posting on this matter it's almost as frank as Steve Jobs' open letter of yesterday. Noting that there's been "a lot of talk" about this on the Web, MS is taking the chance to "talk about" its point of view, which is this: "The...