Linked by Thom Holwerda on Mon 29th Jan 2007 20:13 UTC
To avoid having 8573 stories related to Vista atop one another, this item groups some of them. Fortune: "After five years in development, Microsoft's new operating system is finally about to hit the street. Is it a keeper? Fortune's Peter Lewis takes it for a test drive." eWeek: "Some have taken exception with Vista's permission-asking proclivity, but it may be that we've just become too cavalier about making fundamental changes to our systems." eWeek: "We check out the first systems bundling Microsoft's newest OS and tell you what you will, and will not, be getting with Vista." Click read more for, well, more items. This item will probably be updated regularly.
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Interesting; as long as Microsoft don't do something stupid in the future, it will be a good bit of competition to Adobe - and quite frankly, the day I see Adobe crushed the better.
Adobe screams on the side lines about 'lack of choice' and yet, like I've said in the past, they've complained about Microsoft and yet they provide their products only for Windows - thus by proxy boosting Microsofts monopoly; like I keep saying, if people want to blame someone for Microsofts monopoly, they can blame the likes of Adobe who don't port their software to non-Microsoft operating systems like Linux or FreeBSD or OpenSolaris.
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1) I wouldn't mind the new format if Microsoft turned around and said, "this is a great new format, and we'll allow anyone to implement it" - encourage freeware/opensource to implement it, for commercial vendors, they can pay a token amount if they bundle it with their application.
Indeed this is what they are doing by adding it to OSP. It was previously only going to be free if implemented as part of an XPS reader, but that restriction will no longer apply. A device porting kit (DPK) is available for implementing HDP on other platforms.
Links and other details here:
http://blogs.msdn.com/billcrow/
http://news.com.com/Vista+to+give+HD+Photo+format+more+exposure/210...