Looks like Microsoft is hell-bent on making it impossible to tell what’s a real image and what’s been doctored, and is intent on making it so anybody with a digital camera can do so.
Microsoft Photosynth Focuses On Endeavour
Google Earth recently added a “NASA layer,” and new reports indicate that Microsoft’s also interested in the agency; Photosynth, the company’s digital photo “technology preview,” has made three-dimensional images of Endeavour.
JPEG May Standardize Microsoft’s HD Photo Format
The Joint Photographic Expert Group (JPEG) said they would consider Microsoft’s HD Photo file format, tentatively titled JPEG XR, for open standard status. If standardized, Microsoft says the new format will usher in the next generation of digital imaging.
Free Microsoft Works May Take On Google
Time and time again, Google has claimed that its various products and services are not intended to compete with Microsoft Office. That’s doubtful, but in any event, Microsoft seems prepared to for the clash – a vice president has indicated that the next version of Microsoft Works will be free and ad-supported.
Microsoft: Google Drives Sissy Cars
While Chevrolet appears to be the official automaker of choice for both Google and Microsoft as they embark on their respective nationwide catch-humans-in-the-act photo scavenger hunts, Microsoft isn’t shy about letting Google know it’s bigger and badder.
Microsoft Looks Into The Cloud
The favorite of Googlite war cry formats has been to pair up a Microsoft product with the word "killer": Windows-killer; Office-killer; [Insert product here]-killer. Google’s free, advertising-based software-as-a-service model is what has made Google, in theory at least, Microsoft’s most intense new challenger.
Google, Microsoft Are Among “Best Global Brands”
According to a new report from Interbrand, Google is not one of the ten “Best Global Brands 2007”; that, from Mountain View’s perspective, is the bad news. The good news: at number 20, it’s not too far behind the leaders, and Google’s “brand value” actually increased by 44 percent in the last year.
Microsoft Makes Deal For AdECN
Microsoft added another piece to its developing search and display ad platform by purchasing AdECN, a company whose technology offers Microsoft an auction marketplace for display advertising.
Microsoft Forms Search and Ad Group
Microsoft has created a new division called the Internet Services Research Center (ISRC), which will focus on search and advertising technology.
Microsoft Elbows Google Aside For EA Deal
Microsoft’s purchase of Massive, an in-game advertising company, and some executive-swapping, enabled it to beat Google and other competitors for the EA contract.