Microsoft Wants You to Use Their Photo Standard

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Microsoft Wants You to Use Their Photo Standard

Wed Mar 7, 2007 9:48:47 AM #35197 Perm Link

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"Microsoft...intends to standardize the technology and will be submitting HD Photo to an appropriate standards organization shortly," the company said in a statement. The company plans to announce the move Thursday at the Photo Marketing Association trade show in Las Vegas.

The standardization move makes sense, given Microsoft's ambitions, said InfoTrends analyst Ed Lee. "If Microsoft is looking for wider adoption of the format, it needs to be divorced from Microsoft itself," he said. "They're going to have to loosen the strings on it."

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This is bull. There is already too many formats in between JPEG and RAW, and this one doesn't seem to do anything spectacular that PNG doesn't already do. This sounds more like an answer to a question no one asked than a revolutionary standard.

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Thu Mar 8, 2007 4:10:37 AM #35274 Perm Link

I've heard about this format. I think this is an example of Microsoft being a bit too ambitious.

Do you think it will have trouble taking off if Vista's not very successful?

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