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And this is why you don't do forced updates. This is pretty harmless, but the same could happen in a more harmful manner as well. For all I know, Microsoft could get the best of both worlds by simply switching to the model they're going to be using for Windows 7 and 8 in the future: large update packs instead of small, individual ones, but not forced ones.

Also, I don't know too much about streaming codecs, but to me it sounds like they removed support for two popular codecs (as we can see from the results as well) and thought everything would be OK. What did they expect? Or is the Windows webcam API such that devs can use it without having to need what kind of a codec it's going to use? Anyone know? Doesn't sound like that, but what would make Microsoft's actions understandable and shift the blame to webcam devs.