Microsoft buys Seadragon?

There’s a rumor that Microsoft is buying Seadragon. I can’t comment, but I got a demo this week and was blown away. The details on the rumored acquistion are on Channel 9.

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  5. Oh, I just saw the demo and it mentions that’s it’s a JPEG2000 client. Heh. Now I don’t get it, there are tens of JPEG2000 codecs out there already (which provide the smooth Level Of Details experience that is so different to normal JPEG).

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JPEG_2000

  6. Oh, I just saw the demo and it mentions that’s it’s a JPEG2000 client. Heh. Now I don’t get it, there are tens of JPEG2000 codecs out there already (which provide the smooth Level Of Details experience that is so different to normal JPEG).

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JPEG_2000

  7. Of course you do realize “can’t comment” means “it’s in the works”… Otherwise you would have said something like “We’re not buying SeaDragon”.

  8. Of course you do realize “can’t comment” means “it’s in the works”… Otherwise you would have said something like “We’re not buying SeaDragon”.

  13. Can’t comment? Geeesus, you think people are stupid? — you spread the rumors all over the blogs, Channel 9 hype up, and then point back link when the rumnors take root and say can’t comment. How you get away with this stuff is amazing.

  14. Can’t comment? Geeesus, you think people are stupid? — you spread the rumors all over the blogs, Channel 9 hype up, and then point back link when the rumnors take root and say can’t comment. How you get away with this stuff is amazing.

  17. Well, you are free to feel that way, free county…but ironically as it would be, most of my ‘fan mail’ comes from Microsoft itself. Wouldn’t waste time in pointless blog comments, were it not for the rah rah’ing from the Mini-Microsoft wing.

  18. Well, you are free to feel that way, free county…but ironically as it would be, most of my ‘fan mail’ comes from Microsoft itself. Wouldn’t waste time in pointless blog comments, were it not for the rah rah’ing from the Mini-Microsoft wing.

  19. Wow! That is an awesome technology. Go check out the demos at seadragon.net. I can definitely see why Microsoft is so keen on it. I can immediately see it being put to use with Virtual Earth, for one.

  20. Wow! That is an awesome technology. Go check out the demos at seadragon.net. I can definitely see why Microsoft is so keen on it. I can immediately see it being put to use with Virtual Earth, for one.