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I can’t really say I like the rather juvenile “synth” jargon that Microsoft is throwing around trying to make their product into a verb like “Google” but their new photo stitching software does seem somewhat interesting. I can’t say I have taken many panoramas in my day, but then again this software seems to be more than just putting together a long photo. It seems to be trying to build a large photo out of a collection of smaller ones.

I haven’t actually looked through all the demos yet (the machine I’m sitting in front of right now is Windows 2000 and the site only works with XP and Vista) but I am curious to see more. Will this allow the viewer to move around an image and click points of interest to see more in a photo? Will it be something Google maps like where you can follow the path in an image and have the terrain move around you?

Everything is done online currently and the photos you work with will be uploaded to the public site and visible to everyone. Hard to say if that will be a drawback or not. It is a 1.0 product so I’m sure plenty will change as it progresses. It seems interesting but does have some limitations you have to work within.

It seems promising, but Microsoft can ditch the gimmicky synth lingo and just let the software speak for itself. If it’s actually worthwhile it will catch on.

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