First we had Microsoft's quiet release of its beta codenamed Acrylic, a rumored competitor to Adobe's Photoshop.
Microsoft's next salvo in upping its digital imaging support is its release of the RAW Image Thumbnailer and Viewer, a free “PowerToy” for use with Windows XP. Earlier this month, Microsoft announced that it would offer RAW image format support--uncompressed images produced by digital cameras from vendors like Canon and Nikon--in its future Longhorn operating system, as well as in an update to Windows XP.
The update arrived yesterday, in the form of a 47.7MB utility available for download from Microsoft's site. The utility lets you view images and EXIF data, and print photos captured in RAW image formats from supported Canon and Nikon digital cameras.
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