Microsoft provides a HTML5 H.264 extension for Chrome

Claudio Caldato, Microsoft:

Google recently announced that its Chrome web browser will stop supporting the H.264 video format. At Microsoft we respect that Windows customers want the best experience of the web including the ability to enjoy the widest range of content available on the Internet in H.264 format.
Today, as part of the interoperability bridges work we do on this team, we are making available the Windows Media Player HTML5 Extension for Chrome, which is an extension for Google Chrome to enable Windows 7 customers who use Chrome to continue to play H.264 video.

When Microsoft steps into the breach for Windows users because ever-so-open Google denies users ability to make use of universally accepted, closed source web standards, something isn’t right.Or something is very right at Microsoft.

via Daring Fireball