By Michelle Meyers
Published: Thursday 01 June 2006
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Tim Jackson
Location
Rossendale, Lancs
Occupation
Engineer
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If Microsoft launch a new proprietary format which is a major improvement on JPEG, then the need will appear for a comparable standard for the non-Microsoft community, whether or not that need is perceived now.
It is inevitable that if the new format is restricted to purchasers of new Microsoft products, that the open source community will respond with a free version, which, being later, will probably be better, and which will make the Microsoft product an evolutionary dead-end.
What a turn up for the books - Microsoft leading innovation!
There is already a format superior to JPEG, but fo...
Philip Kearns
If Microsoft launch a new proprietary format which...
Tim Jackson
Perhaps we should be asking why microsoft always t...
Graham Coles
I think this is a sign of a company in decline.
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David Fletcher
JPEG is a ubiquitous format, compatible with digit...
Dimitri
Microsoft haven't got a particularly good record i...
Don Tregartha
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