Comments on: Q&A: Microsoft aids upper-crust camera company

Phase One, which makes high-end digital camera products, has a new partnership with Microsoft. Here's how the CEO thinks it'll help.

[Microsoft_Facts]

What was that?

> On the performance side, we needed a partner.

Performance? Microsoft? Baaawwhaahaahaa.... That kills me.

[richto]

Uhm but Microsoft do own pretty much any bench mark in existence!

Uhm but they do win pretty much any commercial benchmark in existence!

If you test a variety of OSs on the same hardware, Microsoft wins handsdown on standard benchmark suites - e.g. SAP, JD Edwards, etc.

[cheshirkat]

Microsoft in cameras is like Microsoft in automobiles...

...what do you do when you have to reinstall the OS? (...and you
will.) :-)

-CheshirKat

[KTLA_knew]

Ever used Windows?

The rest of us have been using WM devices without "resinstalling to OS" since the 90's.

Not that this article has anything to do with what you're ranting about...

[kinowerken]

Intelligent Interview

Good questions by the interviewer, answers evasive. What exactly is the issue with Adobe DNG other than the fact that Phaseone didn't invent it? This is the same "quality" crap that Nikon uses as a rationale for closing their white balance conversions and screwing the customer/owner of the images.

[KTLA_knew]

No right

You have no right at all to demand that a CE device somehow do just what you want it to do, and give you access to exactly what you want.

It's not you getting "screwed", it's you getting the device you intentionally purchased. It's how capitalism works, and apparently you are voting with your dollars poorly.

Also, no, you can't have a pony.

[t8]

Oh no

The last thing I want is a virus in my camera.