The world is ready for a new photo compression format to rival the ubiquitous JPEG, CNET News.com readers say. But they're not so sure it should be a Microsoft product such as the new Windows Media ...

SEATTLE--If it is up to Microsoft, the omnipresent JPEG image format will be replaced by Windows Media Photo. "One of the biggest reasons people upgrade their PCs is digital photos," Crow said, noting ...

SEATTLE – Not content to take on PDF and PostScript with Windows, Microsoft (MSFT) now also is setting its sights on going head-to-head with the JPEG imaging standard. Microsoft introduced on May 24 ...

Microsoft will soon submit a new photo format to an international standards organization that it says offers higher-quality images with better compression, the company said on Thursday. The format, HD ...

Forgent Networks Inc. has added Microsoft Corp. to the list of companies it has sued alleging infringement of a patent for a data compression technique it claims is used in the JPEG digital image ...

Forgent Networks has added Microsoft to the list of companies it has sued alleging infringement of a patent for a data compression technique it claims is used in the JPEG digital image standard. The ...

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If it is up to Microsoft, the omnipresent JPEG image format will be replaced by Windows Media Photo. The software maker detailed the new image format Wednesday at the Windows Hardware Engineering ...