Microsoft is expected to announce Tuesday that it has partnered with Canon to include an all-new color matching system as part of the new operating system. The Windows Color System is designed, among other things, to help make digital photo prints that better match the images that appear on the screen.
Colorsync? Hmmm, I guess the importance of a color matching system finally gets recognized by M$. What, they wait until 2005 to think about it? (at least publicly). Personally, I ain’t thrilled… but it’s about time. I’ll stick with my Mac in any case.
IMHO Jb
Microsoft would be better off hiring better developers to trim down Vista a bit than spending money for even more marketing a bloated product that doesn’t even run on most computers available today because of its insane performance, memory, and video memory requirements.
no matter how hard we tried (at a now defunct remote print startup) we just couldnt get it “right” in windows (2k/xp) yet with the macs, it just worked, or took little tweaking for strange materials(like when we experimented with imitating fabrics). the eyeone stuff is great, maybe they should have contacted gretag macbeth
Windows has had a colour matching system since Windows 98, but virtually no hardware manufacturers make profiles for their devices.
How this new system (probably a .1 revision of the old system) going to change things?
This isn’t a .1 revision. It’s a new infrastructure that takes advantage of WPF’s extended color space.
http://www.microsoft.com/whdc/device/display/color/WCS.mspx
i would have definitely gone with somebody like gretag macbeth.
most highend photo printers do this already, I don’t think they will be happy.
too little too late…but good enough for the unwashed masses.
Before they had it, the lemmons said it was not important.
Now that they have it, the lemmons think they had it first.
M$ is know for it’s innovation.
Lets colaborate…
… lest than a year later…
Microsoft is creating/building a new product…
All the suden…
We don’t need you… we got what we wanted from you…
(evil laughther…)
Ask Sega how MS colaborates…
Sooo …
What does the opensource world have to compete with this? Think about that before all of you Linux fanbois complain. Then look at all the pro artists working away on their Macs, completely ignoring your fringe platform.
this:
http://live.gnome.org/ColourManagement
“GIMP 2.4 and Krita (a KDE drawing app) use this specification and there are patches for Eye of Gnome, while Scribus is considering adding support.”
Actually while Microsoft is doing something like this KDE devs. are smashing their head with a hammer for something simple like printing a photo.
http://alweb.dk/node/81