Comments on: Windows Media Photo to Challenge JPEG? http://www.realtechnews.com/posts/3092 Independent Tech News and Product Reviews from former VP and head of CNET.com and Longtime Computer Shopper Columnist, Alice Hill author of the popular "Hard Edge" column. Originally named AliceandBill.com. Fri, 09 Jan 2009 01:17:33 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.4 by: Ran Kailie http://www.realtechnews.com/posts/3092#comment-31548 Tue, 30 May 2006 05:01:54 +0000 http://www.realtechnews.com/posts/3092#comment-31548 Jim I believe you're off base. PNG has been steadily growing in adoption, and once IE 7 is released with transparent PNG support, there won't be any reason to use GIF. For the most part I've stopped using GIF in an web design work I've done recently, and only create GIF images to work in IE 6. PNG is definately the way to go, and honestly I use it more then I use JPEG anymore. The real key to this new image format from microsoft is like Alice said, adoption. If Apple and Adobe don't adopt it, there is no way it will replace JPEG. Jim I believe you’re off base. PNG has been steadily growing in adoption, and once IE 7 is released with transparent PNG support, there won’t be any reason to use GIF.

For the most part I’ve stopped using GIF in an web design work I’ve done recently, and only create GIF images to work in IE 6. PNG is definately the way to go, and honestly I use it more then I use JPEG anymore.

The real key to this new image format from microsoft is like Alice said, adoption. If Apple and Adobe don’t adopt it, there is no way it will replace JPEG.

]]> by: Lockergnome's Tech News Watch http://www.realtechnews.com/posts/3092#comment-30761 Fri, 26 May 2006 01:11:07 +0000 http://www.realtechnews.com/posts/3092#comment-30761 <strong>Windows Media Photo To Challenge JPEG?</strong> Michael Santo of RealTechNews writes: At the Windows Hardware Engineering Conference (WinHEC), Microsoft unveiled a new digital image format that it hopes will someday supplant the ubiquitous JPEG. Windows Media Photo will be supported in Windows Vista... Windows Media Photo To Challenge JPEG?

Michael Santo of RealTechNews writes: At the Windows Hardware Engineering Conference (WinHEC), Microsoft unveiled a new digital image format that it hopes will someday supplant the ubiquitous JPEG. Windows Media Photo will be supported in Windows Vista…

]]> by: Jim Frost http://www.realtechnews.com/posts/3092#comment-30717 Thu, 25 May 2006 19:01:44 +0000 http://www.realtechnews.com/posts/3092#comment-30717 Bwahahahaha. They're dreaming if they think they can get a new still format out there. The last format we saw get any penetration at all was PNG and that only because people were trying to avoid GIF licensing ... and even PNG was not all that widely accepted. Maybe if JPEG were seriously flawed, but it's actually pretty good. It gave me a great laugh though, thanks. Bwahahahaha. They’re dreaming if they think they can get a new still format out there. The last format we saw get any penetration at all was PNG and that only because people were trying to avoid GIF licensing … and even PNG was not all that widely accepted.

Maybe if JPEG were seriously flawed, but it’s actually pretty good.

It gave me a great laugh though, thanks.

]]> by: John Corliss http://www.realtechnews.com/posts/3092#comment-30647 Thu, 25 May 2006 14:11:59 +0000 http://www.realtechnews.com/posts/3092#comment-30647 There will be a catch. There's ALWAYS a catch to anything that Microsoft does. Remember WMF, for example, and how proprietary it is, how it's often difficult to play .wmf files. There isn't one non-greedy bone in anybody in the whole Microsoft organization, and everything they do is totally motivated by the desire for profit. That's not always a bad thing, but it's definitely not the same as being motivated by a desire to contribute to the betterment of computing. There will be a catch. There’s ALWAYS a catch to anything that Microsoft does. Remember WMF, for example, and how proprietary it is, how it’s often difficult to play .wmf files.

There isn’t one non-greedy bone in anybody in the whole Microsoft organization, and everything they do is totally motivated by the desire for profit. That’s not always a bad thing, but it’s definitely not the same as being motivated by a desire to contribute to the betterment of computing.

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