Microsoft focuses on camera connections
C|Net | at | by Mike
Microsoft announced several new efforts this week to make it easier to connect digital cameras to PCs. The software giant announced at the Photokina trade show in Germany that it will extend Media Transfer Protocol (MTP), technology it introduced earlier this year for connecting portable media devices with Windows PCs, to include cameras and other digital imaging devices.
MTP is a standard that Microsoft will publish freely for makers of cameras, media devices and other gadgets to incorporate into the "firmware" that runs their devices, said Dave McLauchlan, Microsoft's program manager for Windows Portable Devices. It is based on Photo Transfer Protocol, a standard developed by firmware specialist FotoNation and already supported by many camera makers.