Fate of high-def DVD may lie with Microsoft

[Shadowself]

I've used this exact same post title for other posts in this forum. I've said long ago that HP only switched because of Microsoft's strong arming them.

It should be a clear abuse of monopolistic power and an attempt to extend that power for Microsoft to pay people to use its software. Everyone (other than certain top Microsoft employees and board members) should screem very loudly about this.

But... the best, yet maybe only, laugh out of this article is the statement by Lipoff of IP Action Partners, "Microsoft, then, can add the needed digital rights management to the Windows operating system for a more-seamless and perhaps higher-security protection of the content than would be possible for DRM software that is an add-in."

Since when does anyone outside of Microsoft itself think Microsoft can build "higher security protection"? Microsoft software security is one of the industry's true oxymorons!