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davidjennings's Archive on Jul 29, 2007
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Critique of the BBC's partnership with Microsoft.
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Let’s run it down. The BBC iPlayer needs the latest Microsoft Web browsers (ie7); the latest Microsoft Media player (v11), Microsoft’s DRM; Windows XP - as well as a whole host of backend Microsoft server. Singularly Microsoft. It even appears like they’re looking to Microsoft to provide the ability to run on Macintosh and Linux, using Sliverlight. It’s not that we don’t like Microsoft, it’s just that we passionately believe that the UK’s national broadcast, who is spending our TV license fee on developing this - and we’ve heard some pretty massive figures knocking around as the cost of development so far - shouldn’t be beholden to a single commercial entity.