One Image Editor to Rule Them All - You Shall Not Pass!
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Richard Campbell just chatted me with this tidbit that I missed from the MVP Summit.
Richard Campbell says:
Dewd.Scott Hanselman - Portland says:
kewlRichard Campbell says:
So get this - at the MVP summit, Balmer did his keynote thing. And he had a list of most common concerns by the MVP. Guess what was in the top 10? The image editor tangle.Scott Hanselman - Portland says:
awesomeScott Hanselman - Portland says:
what did he say?Richard Campbell says:
He said "I didn't know anything about this. So I called up some folks at Microsoft, and apparently we make a lot of different image editors."Scott Hanselman - Portland says:
holy crapRichard Campbell says:
And so apparently there is a Balmer-demanded initiative to make one image editor to rule them all, one editor to find them, one editor to bring them all and in the Windows bind them.Scott Hanselman - Portland says:
can I blog this conversation?Richard Campbell says:
Fine with me, bub. I was gonna put comments into your blog anyway, but this is more fun.About Scott
Scott Hanselman is a former professor, former Chief Architect in finance, now speaker, consultant, father, diabetic, and Microsoft employee. He is a failed stand-up comic, a cornrower, and a book author.
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May 27, 2004 22:53
Photo editor to end it all? Well, buying Adobe will probabl never fly, I bet they can pick up Corel for cheap though.
Josh Baltzell
So what does this mean for the Expression people? I cannot see MS producing a hybrid vector/bitmap editor like Fauve Matisse/XRes.
Maybe they will make a separate XAML desinger for the Longhorn people and fold the stroke engine into the 'one editor to rule them all'
Maybe they will make a separate XAML desinger for the Longhorn people and fold the stroke engine into the 'one editor to rule them all'
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