----- Original Message ----- From: "Doug Franklin" Subject: Re: Microsoft and Hoya Pentax join forces.
> >> I am so glad I decided not to sidegrade myself to Vista with my new >> computer. Whether or not >> there is a fight going on between Adobe or Microsoft is moot, it is still up >> to Microsoft to >> make their OS compatable with industry standard file types. Next thing, they >> won't be JPEG >> compliant because they have decided to invent their own version of a >> compressed image file. > > Already done. It's called something like Windows Media Photo format. > It /does/ have advantages over JPEG, though I don't know how it compares > to JPEG-2000. For example, MS's new format supports sixteen bit color > components. I knew about their new format, what I was inferring was all these poor Vista users doing an upgrade and discovering that their JPEGS won't thumbnail any longer. William Robb -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
