From: "Antti Kurenniemi" 

Or a new framework, but don't worry it'll only be 12 Gb download so you can
easily distribute it with every image...


Antti Kurenniemi

"Geo"  wrote in message
news:44787122$1{at}w3.nls.net...
> It'll probably require media player 11 to view the photos.
>
> Geo.
>
> "Rich Gauszka"  wrote in message
> news:4477076c$1{at}w3.nls.net...
>> Now MS wishes to own your photos?
>>
>> http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1895,1967928,00.asp
>>
>> SEATTLE-Not content to take on PDF and PostScript with Windows, Microsoft
>> now also is setting its sights on going head-to-head with the JPEG
>> imaging
>> standard.
>>
>> Microsoft introduced on May 24 at WinHEC (the Windows Hardware
>> Engineering
>> Conference) here its proposed image-compression file-format
>> specification,
>> which it is calling "Windows Media Photo."
>>
>> "While the half the size of a JPG is interesting, it's
largely irrelevant
> in
>> my opinion," blogged Thomas Hawk, a San Francisco-based digital media
>> enthusiast and author of the "Digital Media" blog.
>>
>>
>
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