Comments on: Pentax and… Microsoft??? http://www.f1point0.com/2008/05/12/pentax-and-microsoft/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=pentax-and-microsoft photography by Ed Zawadzki Thu, 02 Feb 2012 23:22:38 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3 By: Ed Z http://www.f1point0.com/2008/05/12/pentax-and-microsoft/comment-page-1/#comment-2837 Ed Z Wed, 14 May 2008 12:23:38 +0000 http://www.f1point0.com/2008/05/13/pentax-and-microsoft/#comment-2837 Steve, I've been a windows admin for the past 15 years, from win3.0/dos to vista. I'm currently an admin for a enterprise scale 2k3 AD domain with vista clients. Believe me I'm quite familiar with MS technology. I also know high level engineers at the company, and I know how their business/R&D/product development works. Believe me, you would not believe the horror stories some of the folks there could tell you about bungled product development (cough**vista**cough) Anyway, that's not to hate on MS per-se, to be fair they have some really excellent technologies. I think active directory is fantastic, for example - as well as Group Policy. But they are *not* a camera company, at best they could claim "consumer imaging" Yeah, they are exploring some imaging technologies (JPEG2000 anyone?) but like I said, speaking from experience I'm not getting my hopes up. On the other hand, as I mentioned, it is definitely a good thing that someone as big as MS is putting their weight behind Pentax - that's just promising in a business sense. Like I said, I'm reserving judgment, we'll see what Pentax announces down the road. I just thought them to be rather strange bedfellows. Steve,
I’ve been a windows admin for the past 15 years, from win3.0/dos to vista. I’m currently an admin for a enterprise scale 2k3 AD domain with vista clients. Believe me I’m quite familiar with MS technology. I also know high level engineers at the company, and I know how their business/R&D/product development works. Believe me, you would not believe the horror stories some of the folks there could tell you about bungled product development (cough**vista**cough)

Anyway, that’s not to hate on MS per-se, to be fair they have some really excellent technologies. I think active directory is fantastic, for example – as well as Group Policy.

But they are *not* a camera company, at best they could claim “consumer imaging” Yeah, they are exploring some imaging technologies (JPEG2000 anyone?) but like I said, speaking from experience I’m not getting my hopes up.

On the other hand, as I mentioned, it is definitely a good thing that someone as big as MS is putting their weight behind Pentax – that’s just promising in a business sense.

Like I said, I’m reserving judgment, we’ll see what Pentax announces down the road. I just thought them to be rather strange bedfellows.

]]> By: Steve http://www.f1point0.com/2008/05/12/pentax-and-microsoft/comment-page-1/#comment-2828 Steve Tue, 13 May 2008 16:09:58 +0000 http://www.f1point0.com/2008/05/13/pentax-and-microsoft/#comment-2828 Ed, you really should put the MS bashing away - beyond making cameras and PCs "just work" - this is a a noble cause btw. they've got plenty of pro-photo folk working on image formats, manipulation libraries, tools etc. They certainly seem to care about high-end photography. Ed, you really should put the MS bashing away – beyond making cameras and PCs “just work” – this is a a noble cause btw. they’ve got plenty of pro-photo folk working on image formats, manipulation libraries, tools etc. They certainly seem to care about high-end photography.

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