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Mozilla, Opera (and Google) aren;t the only ones supporting the open-sourced VP8 video codec in their browsers. Microsoft is heading to perform the same, too,Windows 7 Pro Key, according to my tipsters.Update: It seems such as the tipsters were on the money. See beneath for Microsoft;s most recent codec-support statement.(I don;t know precisely when or how Microsoft will probably assistance VP8 with Web Explorer. But offered IE nine is unlikely to ship until 2011, based on several resources of mine, the Redmondians have a while to figure it out.)In the Google I/O conference on May 19, Mozilla and Opera introduced with much fanfare their strategies to assistance VP8 codec, which Google acquired when it bought On2 Technology. At the I/O confab,Office 2007 Professional Plus, Google unveiled the WebM container, which includes VP8 video and Ogg Vorbis audio assistance. (Google officials mentioned WebM will function nicely on even lower-power products, including netbooks and handhelds, based on Engadget.) WebM is going to be accessible underneath a royalty-free BSD open-source license.At the end of April, Microsoft IE Common 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 mentioned IE 9 users will, of course, be free to download and set up other codecs. But the implication was that IE nine would incorporate built-in assistance for H.264 only.(A related aside: My ZDNet colleague Ed Bott did a must-read post that rebutted the notion that H.264 codecs may end up a costly proposition for consumers, as opposed to the open-sourced VP8.)I;ve asked Microsoft no matter if the organization is, without a doubt, going to add VP8 assistance to IE9, but have however to listen to back again.This just in: Microsoft is confirming it'll support VP8 via a just-published weblog post from Hachamovitch. The bottom line:“When it comes to video and HTML5, we’re all in. In its HTML5 assistance, IE9 will assistance playback of H.264 video also as VP8 video when the user has installed a VP8 codec on Windows.”Hachamovitch does note with the May possibly 18 post that Microsoft still considers H.264 to get the superior video codec choice. From his post:“Today, hardware assistance is widely accessible for H.264 both on PCs and phones. (You can study about the benefits of hardware acceleration here, or see an example of the benefits at the 26:35 mark here.) Codecs have been a supply of security and reliability issues (link1,Office Pro Plus 2010, link2, link3, link4) for some people. New code often faces security issues; the H.264 codec in Windows 7 has been in broad use for a while now. Sites also need to think about the issues in supporting multiple formats.”I;ve also asked the Silverlight team what its programs are, heading forward, in terms of VP8 assistance. At the Google I/O conference today, Adobe officials mentioned they are going to put the VP8 code into the Flash player and push it out to “a billion people within a year” (as News.com;s Stephen Shankland tweeted).No word back yet 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,Office 2010 License, but here;s Microsoft;s statement regarding VP8 and Silverlight:“Silverlight today supports H.264,Office 2007 Pro Plus, VC1 and other audio-related codecs, Also, the Raw AV pipeline makes it easy to support a variety codecs.”Meanwhile, I wonder how/if Apple will probably assistance VP8 around the iPad… Any guesses?