Changes implemented in Windows 7 RC compared to Beta.

[dennilfloss]

http://blogs.msdn.com/e7/archi...hanges-since-beta.aspx

See which ones you like and dislike. 🙂

 

[Modelworks]

Waiting for Apple to complain, MS making Mov playable with media player .

We?ve since added support for Windows Media Player to natively support the .MOV files used to capture video for many common digital cameras.

 

[VirtualLarry]

I liked this reply:

And while I'm at it (sorry :/ ) I certainly dislike any application getting focus while I'm typing something, be it in Word, Excel, or just in text-box in IE like this one. I type and type, and all from nowhere something blinks, and I probably press yes/no/cancel/whatever since I'm typing, but I never even saw the window. I soooo hate when this happens. And it happens. Way too often. Applications should be forbiden to get focus unless a) it's window is clicked by a user; b) it's taskbar button is clicked by a user; c) app was started by a user (and no toher app was switched to after that)... Sorry for ranting. But be that post that didn't get posted, similary to my feedbacks that never get posted by Win7 system 😉 🙂 Cheers!

Thursday, February 26, 2009 3:06 PM by LuxZg

 

[plonk420]

Originally posted by: Modelworks
Waiting for Apple to complain, MS making Mov playable with media player .

We?ve since added support for Windows Media Player to natively support the .MOV files used to capture video for many common digital cameras.

MOV is supposedly a "standard" container (like AVI). the only thing Apple would complain about is if one of their codecs was used without a license.

MS has an h.264 license, and possibly an MPEG-2 one as well (premium/ultimate/business only?), and h.264 is pretty much the only codec inside MOV that really matters .. except for maybe DV.

edit: maybe it's NOT as free/open as AVI. linkey .. or maybe MS just isn't enforcing it much with FOSS and/or the other obscure 3rd party programmers

 

[Modelworks]

Originally posted by: plonk420

Originally posted by: Modelworks
Waiting for Apple to complain, MS making Mov playable with media player .

We?ve since added support for Windows Media Player to natively support the .MOV files used to capture video for many common digital cameras.

MOV is supposedly a "standard" container (like AVI). the only thing Apple would complain about is if one of their codecs was used without a license.

No they will complain because Media Player is bundled with the OS and that means people will not have to download quicktime.

 

[Genx87]

Thank god, QT is garbage.

 

[ViRGE]

Originally posted by: plonk420

Originally posted by: Modelworks
Waiting for Apple to complain, MS making Mov playable with media player .

We?ve since added support for Windows Media Player to natively support the .MOV files used to capture video for many common digital cameras.

MOV is supposedly a "standard" container (like AVI). the only thing Apple would complain about is if one of their codecs was used without a license.

MS has an h.264 license, and possibly an MPEG-2 one as well (premium/ultimate/business only?), and h.264 is pretty much the only codec inside MOV that really matters .. except for maybe DV.

edit: maybe it's NOT as free/open as AVI. linkey .. or maybe MS just isn't enforcing it much with FOSS and/or the other obscure 3rd party programmers

Apple has relinquished at least some of their control over the MOV container to the MPEG-LA; the MP4 container is a restricted subset of MOV. MS licensed MPEG 1, 2, and 4 decoding for W7, and that includes their respective containers. So they can easily read MOV containers that don't go beyond the scope of MP4, and Apple can't do a thing about it.

What they don't have (AFAIK) is a license for Sorenson video, which is very uncommon in new files but may be an issue with older files. You'd still need QuickTime for movies using it.

 

[soonerproud]

Originally posted by: Modelworks
Waiting for Apple to complain, MS making Mov playable with media player .

I would assume Microsoft licensed .MOV from Apple.

 

[dennilfloss]

Originally posted by: Modelworks
No they will complain because Media Player is bundled with the OS and that means people will not have to download quicktime.

*High-fives Microsoft!*

 

[plonk420]

what's the problem, other than size? (which shouldn't be an issue with today's hard drives and memory) hell, forceware drivers are many times the size of it... and it doesn't take over your system half as bad as WMP...

i THINK you can use MPC as a player engine, too. i KNOW you can with Quicktime Alt (which is ever-so-slightly more legal since it doesn't invisibly fill in a pirated s/n anymore. you can do that yourself if you have one)

edit: it's a pity it's not as efficient as it is on OS X. i heard that for a while, Quicktime essentially emulated OS X or something. not sure how much trust i put in that claim, though.

 

[Canai]

They need to give the option to continue using desktop gadgets after disabling UAC.

 

[MadRat]

I like some of the cut&paste options in 7, but the default look&feel of Explorer is a real turd. Why must MS keep breaking what worked in previous versions of Windows?

 

[MadRat]

I have found IE8 to be an improvement over IE6. Not sure if its an improvement over IE7 as I never could warm up to it. At least IE8 is pretty customizable. Even imported bookmarks from Firefox. Just using IE8 on the 7 machine right now.