By Michelle Meyers
Published: Thursday 01 June 2006
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Name
Dimitri
Location
London
Occupation
Consultant
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JPEG is a ubiquitous format, compatible with digital cameras, camcorders, all operating systesm (since its an open standard) and all kinds of mobile devices et al. In order for a new format to to become prevalent it needs to be equaly standard, ubiquitous and universally supported. This new MS efforts smacks of WMA. How succesful was that against mp3? It is nothing to do with open source, its a question of an open standard.
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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