Saturday, March 22, 2008

When MS is not big enough...

Microsoft is pure monopolist, we all know.
Punished for enjoying it status many times, as we all know...

But of course, truth is sometimes little different. If you read this blog, you know my enthusiasm about new WM Photo, then HD Photo and finally JPEG XR format.

So what about it, who cares about new JPEG when we already have JPEG? If you are photographer for example, you should care very much, because it solves JPEG problem - fixed limited color bit depth, problem who is killing JPEG for photographers.

And now MS despite all The Monopolists Powers can't introduce excellent new open format to mass market.

Instead of reanalyzing well known reasons for this mass market ignoring that already happened to Adobe Digital Negative DNG format, also beautifull open specs solution,

we can all, politely ask for one more time to all major players on the market,
Get serious, put behind all small personal interests, and embrace open formats.

I'm generally against open code, it doesn't make any sense, but I'm all for open formats politics.

So repeat after me:
1. I want all my apps to have open formats native support
2. I want all my electronics devices to use USB for power and data transfer
3. I want all my....
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