A two page article on The Register on how excitement over VC-1 waned and H.264 ended up ruling the current generation of video codecs. While I am not keen on trusting Microsoft with any additional power over computer technology and I am quite happy that H.264 seems to have won the battle, what’s really interesting here is how patent law, as ludicrous as it is, can even backfire on the mightiest players of the industry.
