Microsoft likes digital photography enthusiasts as customers, and on Thursday plans to release a free new utility designed to keep them wedded to Windows.
Pro Photo Tools is geared for photography professionals and enthusiasts, and its first notable feature is the ability to geotag photos, or add geographic information showing where the picture was taken. Geotagging is an onerous chore with today's technology, but camera makers are working to build it into cameras, and it can pay off down the road.
Link: CNet
Pro Photo Tools is geared for photography professionals and enthusiasts, and its first notable feature is the ability to geotag photos, or add geographic information showing where the picture was taken. Geotagging is an onerous chore with today's technology, but camera makers are working to build it into cameras, and it can pay off down the road.
Link: CNet
the joke is, it runs on top of .NET framework which was designed to be OS independent!
Though I do agree that there are many tools and applications that MS should work on to improve it's OS.
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Also they are not PRO because they dont support 64bit.
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details...splaylang=en&tm
WARNING these do not install on 64bit which means they are not PRO tools.
The funny thing is it specifically detectsa that your running 64bit and doesn't install lol.
Last edited by majortom1981 on 01 May 2008 - 16:07
Also they are not PRO because they dont support 64bit.
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details...ylang=en&tm
WARNING these do not install on 64bit which means they are not PRO tools.
The funny thing is it specifically detectsa that your running 64bit and doesn't install lol.
Yes because the definiton of professional is x64... last time I checked a professional was someone who made money doing work... not how many bits their CPU's word size is
Gee, thanks Microsoft
Right. A free photography utility is the "make or break it" point of retaining a Windows customer
Only the biased ignorance of c|net could come up with a line of crap like that. Too bad they don't hire writers that were able to get through elementary school English.
Just wait, they might be working on a better 64-bit version.
Just wait, they might be working on a better 64-bit version.
64bit allows more ram to be used meaning better photoshop performance. Any pro photographer will be moving over to 64bit to take advantage of the more memory available. So by having it only 64bit they will be limiting it to the photographers who have not moved to 64bit.
Last edited by dp123 on 02 May 2008 - 15:12
And this even come close to threatening Adobe how? This is nothing compared to what Adobe has in their portfolio
And this even come close to threatening Adobe how? This is nothing compared to what Adobe has in their portfolio
Remember one of adobes head people is now a high up in microsft so this is a start.
He will regret that decision. This is what HalcyonX12 was referring to:
http://www.adobe.com/openscreenproject/
Adobe has the industry support, and with good reason. Adobe doesn't try to screw its partners and customers over. At least, not nearly as much as MS does. Silverlight will go the way of HD-DVD.
But I encourage Microsoft to try and top Photoshop and/or Painter. It's these "free" knockoffs and other half-baked Microsoft junk that I don't like. They're nothing more than craplets, and there is better open-sourced freeware out there. That's pretty sad coming from a giant megacorporation!
MS just doesn't seem to be serious about most of it's new projects, other than Windows and Office. If you're going to take on other companies, you either go all the way or you don't do it at all. Trying to con users into it through preloads and other schemes isn't going to fly. Flash is successful because Adobe pioneered a product that didn't exist before. MS, as usual, just plays catch up.
Why do we need these MS knockoffs when they aren't superior to the originals?
Usually MS seems to dabble in different markets until they become either a threat or lucrative, either way then they start to build a product until it gains a fair lead and then lets the product stagnate until a threat comes along. As a corporation that has to answer to its shareholders, the bottom line is to make money. Trying to be a leader in many markets at a mature share price puts them in a situation similar to Dell, their resources have to be used efficiently and they have to deliver products with minimum overhead to make the most money for their investors. If the stock stays at the same level then investors will start to lose interest. Windows and Office cannot support MS alone and may bring in less money than they used to during the time when MS was growing rapidly due to the internet taking off and everyone buying PCs (which represents a part when MS grew larger, now MS may still bring in the same amount of money with these same people upgrading their PCs, the rate of growth is lower so the stock price is not making such a large change so fast), so they have to go into other markets with the 360, Zune, MCE, etc. and while those markets are on the verge of helping MS, they also have to get into new ones to have more growth in the future, and funding these new projects at a loss means MS can't spend all their resources on them until they see a chance to really turn a huge profit. So MS has to be pretty good at juggling and that means when a product is really benefiting the user they have less incentive to work on it because the user already has a reason to buy it.
It's not a Pro app, not because it lacks x64 support but, because it's not Adobe Bridge or Lightroom or Apple's Aperture.
and it seems microsoft says nothing about what this piece of junk does at their web site. this is a fvcking scam to push out .NET 3.0 and their virtual earth crap.
What an exercise in futility.
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