On their website, Nokia says "end of October": http://store.nokia.com/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/productdetail_10500_10101_-1_10000367

If my memory serves right (it's kind of fading these days; it's been a long time....) it was the result of patent claims from some state-funded institution in Australia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IEEE_802.11n

Unlike OGG, Theora had some kinks to iron out, e.g HD rendering. I am glad to see that being taken care of.

But for M$FT, it is a perfectly rational approach to play down the concerns about malware, phishing, etc. Usual discourses about these issues usually end up at their door. As a corporate strategy, it makes more sense to get people to discuss ad nauseam about human virtues, strippers, drug dealers or for that matter about anything else, so long as the issue at hand stays muddled.

I am really trying to understand the correlation between a "commercial" (as in motivated by profit) operation and the spread of computing and thus I am not particularly interested about the "licensing" part here. Any free distribution (initial) with the aim of recouping profits in a future time is also not of interest. (In this scenario, it clearlys show that there is a role of FOSS, (i.e. free as in free beer). I would like to explore if MSFT's activities were "commercial" or "non-commercial". I wonder if there is any way of finding out how much licensing income MSFT generated. Just thinking aloud.