We’re here in New York City for today’s Microsoft hardware event. Thus far Microsoft has been very dilligent about avoiding leaks, so with any luck they should be able to surprise the crowd. Expectations for today include an update to the Surface Pro, and possibly some other new tablets and phones.
We’re here in New York City for today’s Microsoft hardware event. Thus far Microsoft has been very dilligent about avoiding leaks, so with any luck they should be able to surprise the crowd. Expectations for today include an update to the Surface Pro, and possibly some other new tablets and phones.
Today Microsoft announced that support for VP9 and the WebM container is in development for the Microsoft Edge browser that ships with Windows 10. Over the past couple of years the WebM container has become something of a de facto successor to animated GIFs as it allows for clips that run for several minutes to be put into a relatively good quality file with a small size, and doesn’t suffer from the 256 color limit of standard animated GIFs. VP9 is also the default encoding used for videos on YouTube, which isn’t surprising given that the VP8 and VP9 standards are developed by Google.
With the fate of HEVC uncertain due to potential issues with the costs required to license patents related to it (e.g. the creation of the rival HEVC Advance consortium), the importance of royalty free video coding formats like VP9 may grow substantially in the near future. And while current hardware support for VP9 is virtually non-existant in the PC space, that’s slowly changing as the newest GPUs at least implement partial/hybrid support for the codec.
According to Microsoft, support for VP9 and the WebM container will be coming to Microsoft Insider builds of Windows 10 in the near future, with it rolling out to everyone else sometime later.
Today during the opening keynote of the Microsoft BUILD developer conference the official name of Microsoft’s new web browser was revealed. The new browser has previously been referred to as Project Spartan, and the official name was withheld until today. Today it was revealed to the world that the new browser is called Microsoft Edge, and it will be the primary browser that is built into Windows 10 when it is released to the public.
There aren’t a whole lot of details about Edge at the moment, but Microsoft did play a launch video for the new browser during the BUILD keynote, and they’ve put it on Youtube for everyone to see. What is known is that the browser has Microsoft’s Cortana assistant built in, has a very new and minimalist design, and runs on a new Microsoft built rendering engine called EdgeHTML. The video released by Microsoft also shows some new features like the ability to draw on web pages.
As more information about Microsoft Edge is revealed during the course of BUILD we’ll be sure to bring it to you.
Today during the opening keynote of the Microsoft BUILD developer conference the official name of Microsoft’s new web browser was revealed. The new browser has previously been referred to as Project Spartan, and the official name was withheld until today. Today it was revealed to the world that the new browser is called Microsoft Edge, and it will be the primary browser that is built into Windows 10 when it is released to the public.
There aren’t a whole lot of details about Edge at the moment, but Microsoft did play a launch video for the new browser during the BUILD keynote, and they’ve put it on Youtube for everyone to see. What is known is that the browser has Microsoft’s Cortana assistant built in, has a very new and minimalist design, and runs on a new Microsoft built rendering engine called EdgeHTML. The video released by Microsoft also shows some new features like the ability to draw on web pages.
As more information about Microsoft Edge is revealed during the course of BUILD we’ll be sure to bring it to you.