[alastair_hm]

Could Microsoft move kill off JPEGs?
http://www.computerworld.com/action/arti...Id=9012518

[shuttertalk]

I saw that article make the rounds - it sounds well and good in theory, but I think it would hard pressed to change an industry that is so entrenched in JPG and GIFs. There are plenty of other superior formats that have been out - JPEG2000, PNG, DNG - but the old ones are still around.

I was actually hoping to see DNG being more universally adopted - it would make things much easier if different manufacturers would just play nice with each other.

[EnglishBob]

I'm not so sure, remember that gif's in itself is a format started by one small company, many years ago. Compuserve, now owned by AOL.

[alastair_hm]

Depends on how much they charge for using the format, they could do the usual MS trip of giving it away free to beat the competition.