HD Photo, a new file format from Microsoft

Another digital photography related post, but also interesting for software developers: Microsoft has announced a new file format for high-definition still images (think photographs) called "HD Photo", which was formely called Windows Media Photo.

This file format is the "JPEG killer" that Microsoft proposes as the future native file format for digital cameras. (Another is Adobe's DNG, but that's a different story.)

For us programmers, the interesting thing is that .NET Frameworks 3.0 can be used to manipulate HD Photo files, however I'm yet to check which APIs these would be. CNET News also has a report about the new file format.