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Quote:Microsoft this week unveiled a new photo format to compete with an old industry standard. The software giant claims its Windows Media Photo (WMP) will provide better quality at half the size of a JPEG image. The software giant's program manager said the company has been working on the photo format for nearly four years.

WMF is a file format for continuous-tone still images that Microsoft claims surpasses the limitations of existing image formats. Microsoft plans to include the new format in its Vista operating system. It's currently shipping in Vista Beta 2...