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Microsoft Embraces FireWire - Finally
By Remy Davison, Insanely Great Mac
November 1st 2002
MovieMaker app to ape iMovie.
Reuters reports that the next version of Microsoft's MovieMaker application will
support Apple's FireWire (IEEE-1394) standard.
Redmond plans to support FireWire DV cameras in MovieMaker 2, with the release of a
beta of the software which should be available today.
While Intel's USB 2.0 standard for high-speed data transfers has now been available
for sometime, it currently lacks its FireWire competitor's ability to support
peer-to-peer networking. This allows applications, such as Apple's iMovie, a DV
importer/exporter and movie editor, to control a FireWire DV camera directly from the
desktop.
Microsoft will add video editing to the next revision of its XP operating system.
Analysis: MS's move will kill a number of third-party developers of movie-making apps
on the Windows platform, but MS has been absurdly slow in grasping the popularity of
home video making on PCs. While MS has supported FireWire since Win 98 SE,
movie-making on PCs has not approached the plug-and-play simplicity and elegance of
iMovie.
In some respects, MS's move represents one in the eye for Intel, whose USB 2.0
technology has not had anything like the impact of FireWire in consumer electronics,
although it has made inroads into storage devices (hard drives, CDRWs) due mainly to
its critical mass. However, Apple is likely to have 800Mbps FireWire conjtrollers on
board Macs in early 2003, with Oxford Semiconductor having already developed the
next-generation (1394b) bridgeboard.
Jobs understood the importance of desktop movie-making way back in 1999. As ever,
Windows plays catch-up.
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