And the game is up.
Sorry, Microsoft, your decoder sucks.
You can no longer claim that it benefits us to use your decoder because it is "better" when it cannot play 1080p H.264 on a
Quad-core Phenom II Black Edition 3.2Ghz.
And now your decoder is (blatantly illegally) hijacking playback throughout Windows 7. I suspect the rest of the world will have no choice but to actively break your decoders in order to provide useful media playback.
How am I not surprised?