Jpeg is a compression type (like a zip or rar), not a picture format but ignoring that.. I don't like the idea of Micro$oft getting their sticky little fingers any deeper into my stuff than it already has. Microsoft shows off JPEG rival By Joris Evers Story last modified Thu May 25 05:51:55 PDT 2006 http://news.com.com/2100-1025_3-6076650.html "..his presentation ..showed an image with 24:1 compression that visibly contained more detail in the Windows Media Photo format than the JPEG and JPEG 2000 formats compressed at the same level" k