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Microsoft Move to be the End of JPEG?
jcatcw writes "Microsoft Corp. will submit a new photo format to an international standards organization. The format, HD Photo (formerly known as Windows Media Photo), can accommodate lossless and lossy compression. Microsoft claims that adjustments can be made to color balance and exposure settings that won't discard or truncate data that occurs with other bit-map formats."
I predict it will succeed in displacing jpg just like png displaced both gif and jpg.
Or WMA replaced MP3. png did replace gif with good reason and could take the place of jpeg without much cost to device makers. M$ pushed WMA as hard as they could, making it the default format for WMP, shoving it down the throats of device makers while forbiding them to use ogg, but WMA still flopped. It flopped because it sucked. They said it was better but it was not and everyone ignored them.
Friends don't help friends install M$ junk.
Yes sure it's gonna replace JPEG. I think heard a colossally humongous cloud of oinks from up above.
The very fact that it is from mirco$haft, and they hold patents on it, and they strictly control how it is licensed, itself is a huge nail in the coffin. Now if they'd simply published the spec as an open standard and allowed anyone to use it without restrictions, then we'd have a different story.
Personally I'd be very glad if this falls flat on its silly HD face. We already have JPEG2000, maybe it's time to take another look at it, or improve it. This is not the time for yet another proprietary 'new' "standard".
loosen up already, most people don't care about grammar (or spelling) nazis who are that anal pedantic over an inconsistent language...