| "In a stunningly innovative move, Microsoft Corporation (NYSE: MSFT) has announced that it will include a new photo organization and editing application, named Photo 2002. The program, which uses a meager 64 MB of RAM, allows users to download images directly from a compatible USB card reader (direct download from cameras is unsupported at this point) and place the images into a folder. Photo 2002 even assigns automatic numerical names to each image. This folder can then be viewed with image previews turned on in Windows Explorer for a powerful image-browsing experience. "Our customers have been asking for a powerful image-organization interface like Apple's new iPhoto," the CEO of Mirosoft, Steve Ballmer, said in a press conference Wednesday, "and we've come up with something we think is far superior to Apple's product. The image preview feature is a big advantage when you are looking through thousands of photos, and it is something that we are not aware that Apple has." When asked to comment on the current trend towards editing functions such as a Crop tool, Ballmer said, "We just don't see these sorts of things as being useful. We prefer to keep our software simple, which is why we're happy to report the Photo 2002 requires very little drive space. In fact, I'd go so far as to say it requires a bit less even than Windows XP."  | 
April 20th, 2002, 04:56 PM
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