Microsoft, Kodak Near Settlement on Windows XP

Microsoft is expected to reach a settlement in the dispute with Kodak concerns, the manner in which digital photo processing software giants upcoming Windows XP operating system.

Early July, Kodak accused Microsoft from the effective hijacking of a new optical transmission standards, the two companies have been jointly developed for Windows XP.

According to Kodak, most recently in the Windows XP release candidate 1, Microsoft has made its own photoelectric conversion process, known as the "Scanner and Camera Wizard." default standard for digital photos - even in these cases, Kodak its software has been installed. In order to use any alternative packages, Kodak argued that, the user must manually open it, whenever it needs.

"We are being frozen out. Consumers effectively deprived of a choice, picture processing software, they can use, "Philip gerskovich Kodak vice president told the Wall Street Journal on time.

Microsoft initially disputed Kodaks account, but. According to Microsoft, the Scanner and Camera Wizard actually launch the drop-down menu, which provides that the listing of installed software programs that can be used to import digital photos. If installed, Kodak EASYSHARE software will be included in the plan, in such a list, users can select it once and for all, its the default.

Kodak - Microsoft flap main mode of Windows XP with digital cameras, but some users expressed dissatisfaction with the harsh XP control, electro-optical imaging standards. According to some Beta testing, Windows XP does not allow them to choose which applications they want to use to browse and edit digital photographic images.

Andrea Pennington, an amateur photographer, using a software program, the so-called ACDSee from the Asia Cooperation Dialogue Systems Limited editors, many of her digital photos, said the rc1 Windows XP launch its own photo editing Tools, whenever she double-click on a photo image - and even despite the fact that her prospective ACDSee to the most common image of the Windows file extension. She claims that her experience, there is no such problem in Windows 2000.

"I can not find a way to get it automatically launched ACDSee," she said. "Even when I made it clear that ACDSee [is] the use of file extensions, I save my photo, because it still has opened up a Microsoft initiative. Does not seem a way around it. " More than anything else, Microsoft, Kodak flap is conducive to the adjustment of industry attention, the software giants business practices doubt.

"This is another kind of circumstances, they focus on that, they do not deserve trust. This is a Kodak work, and they are sincere, then, is completely across the double, "argued marketing manager with a large Silicon Valley - based on the Unix vendor. "This is a textbook case, how to restrict a users preferences and choices." A representative of the Silicon Valley-based database and application of the sellers consent, said: "If you can not trust them, this, how can you trust them with some like passports, forcing you to surrender all of your personal information to? " According to Dan kusnetzky director, global server operating environment and IDC statistics, such attention is not the cause of the time difference, for Microsoft.

"My feeling is that Microsoft is a time soon, because very soon, because it will be Windows XP and all the things around it, and then installed in as many places in the world, because they can," he says. "Microsoft has been made [XP] difficulties, and rapid deployment, government agencies have been able to see it, I wonder if it is in line with regulations and laws, and standards bodies have no chance criteria, the companies they support, because once it exist, and the deployment of its too late. " Unfortunately, Microsoft, kusnetzky said, Kodak, in its case directly to the people. Photo processing giant recently launched a massive public relations campaigns and lobbying efforts - to strengthen in early July by a scathing article in the Wall Street Journal - it attracted the attention of the influential United States Senator Charles Schumer (4, New York state). Schumer ranks of several state attorneys general, and some industry observers appeal in late July for an injunction to stop Windows XP, from the ship as planned in late October.

This is the pressure from Schumer and other industry observers believe Microsoft kusnetzky credits and the reversal of - of - of course. "Only in this way, can be Microsoft, is not one-on-one talks with them quietly, but to get the whole group of people criticize them," kusnetzky said.

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