JPEG Photo Format on Its Way Out? – PCWorld.com: Microsoft Corp. will soon submit a new photo format to an international standards organization that it says offers higher quality images with better compression.

The format, HD Photo, is taking aim at the JPEG format, a 15-year old technology still widely used in digital cameras and image applications.

Although JPEG is aging, it has been modified to help keep it up to date.

Adobe Systems Inc. and Microsoft will release a plug-ins for CS3 and CS2 versions of its widely used Photoshop program for Vista, XP and Apple Inc.’s OS X. Also, Microsoft also has built a HD Photo Device Porting Kit so hardware manufacturers can support it.