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Microsoft Pushes Its Own Alternative to JPEG
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Microsoft Watch
 
By Microsoft Watch
Published on May 26, 2006
 
Microsoft is encouraging developers to start to add now support for its fledgling 'Windows Media Photo' specification to devices and applications that read or write image files.
 
 SEATTLE – Not content to take on PDF and PostScript with Windows, Microsoft now also is setting its sights on going head-to-head with the JPEG imaging standard.
Windows Media Photo

Microsoft introduced on May 24 at the Windows Hardware Engineering Conference (WinHEC) here its proposed image-compression file-format specification, which it is calling "Windows Media Photo."

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