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Microsoft Move to be the End of JPEG?

Posted by CowboyNeal on from the just-a-little-bit-better dept.

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."

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  1. You're Just A Whiney Mac Fanboy! by Prysorra · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    /(runs and hides)

  2. hmmm by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    this just pisses me off, I mean first they ram HD-DVD down our throats (well not entirely Microsoft but Xbox 360 is linked to this format) and now this...while I'm getting poorer and poorer, the electronics industry is continues to mine for the next generation for its newest revenue stream.

    I'm considering just using paper, pencil, rock and scissors from now on.

  3. Re:Nup, No, Nada. by WwWonka · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    1) The 'HD' doesn't stand for High Definition,it's just there to get the association with HD TV in consumers minds.

    Whew, for a minute there I thought maybe it was for Honoring Dvorak.

  4. modK down by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    to get some eye being GAY NIGGERS. its readers and OPENBSD, AS THE 200 rruning NT I ever did. It with the work, or been the best, EFNet, and apply

  5. Re:Nup, No, Nada. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic
    Dear Stubear, I am one of the millions of people who don't use The Gimp, and I protest! Protest this discrimination of no-Gimp users from your data base! I would expect better of a denizen of /. Please get your act together, and your database updated immediately!

    PS, please count me as one of those who won't be moving to the new format while you're at it. /protest!