The default file format for MS-Paint is WHAT?!!

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Good: PNG is the logical default choice for image saving. Lossless compression, transparency support, established browser support, etc., etc. Even Office97 supports PNG.

But let's be blunt. Right now there is no point in developing a proprietary image format. They know they wouldn't be able to get such an image format accepted into the W3C.

MS has also liked to generate a proprietary format when they see an industry group that would like DRM (despite the fact that their customers do not). There is no RIAA and MPAA equivalent for images that MS will favor over the people who actually buy their software. If this changes, you can bet that we will see DRM'd .WMI (windows media image) files embedded into the OS and browser and patented with a licence that excludes open source software.

Am I cynical? Yes. MS attempt to hijack email standards with their patented sender ID software (licenced to prevent GPL software from using it), DRM'd Media Player formats, patents to prevent competitors from accessing XML files generated by Office 12, attempts to bolt proprietary extensions onto the open-standard Kerberos, undocumented NTFS specifications, breaking the rules of TCP/IP with IIS, lack of W3C standards compliance, software "activation" that makes the user beg MS to use software he/she paid for when there's a major hardware upgrade, insistance on new DRM'd monitors for vista or they won't let users see high def video as it was meant to be seen, "trusted computing," dictating to hardware makers what they must put support MS DRM in hardware, creating a desktop environment in Vista that won't allow accelerated OpenGL in windows, encrypting data over a computer's main bus in order to support DRM, failure to support proper PNG transparancy in MSIE, tying MSIE into their OS to kill competition, flat out stating that the acid test is not important to revs of MSIE, treating all their customers like children and theives, proprietary email server protocols (Outlook), Ballmer throwing chairs saying he's going to f***ing kill a competitor, numerous MS funded "independent" studies that all say Windows is superior to Linux in every way, funding SCO, refusal to support OpenDocument when their customers (e.g. Massachusetts) clearly want it, etc. etc etc..... and the logical use of PNG in a bitmap editor that has existed in one form or another since windows 1.0 is supposed to give me warm fuzzies and make me think MS is embracing open standards?

Sorry if I'm not convinced.; Posted by: mobrien_12@... Posted on: 09/16/05 You are currently: a Guest | Members login | Terms of Use