Talk:Microsoft PhotoDraw

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Contents 1 Article is wrong again 2 Article is wrong 3 Aux 4 Reasons for low popularity

[edit] Article is wrong again

PhotoDraw's native .mix format is not compatible with any version of Office, unless the system has or has previously had PhotoDraw installed on it - in which case presumably import/export filters remain resident. If the .mix file has multiple layers, there is NO means of opening it in any other software package, on any platform. Bedbuggie 01:34, 7 March 2007 (UTC)Bedbuggie

There is something wrong here: In this article, Picture It! came AFTER PhotoDraw. In the Picture It! article, it seems the other way round.

[edit] Article is wrong

Version 2 was bundled with Office 2000 Premium.

[edit] Aux

Added some extensionst to the article earlier, and today I decided to remove the reference for Microsoft Digital Image. The line removed suggested that PhotoDraw was "reborn" under the name of DI but this is wrong: PhotoDraw is a powerful graphic application while Digital Image is a different product, focusing on image manipulation and processing, and has nothing common with PhotoDraw. PhotoDraw still awaits its resurrection. MSfan.

[edit] Reasons for low popularity

Meager takeup in the market could be blamed on its bundling with Office 2000 Premium, which was probably the most expensive, while home users resorted to simpler photo manipulation software, such as Photo Editor and were therefore not intent on buying a separate vector graphics application. Another reason for low sales was that the imaging (both vector and bitmap) market was already saturated with other titles, some of which are mentioned in the article.

So I guess the professionals just bought a cheaper version of Office 2000 at the time and then separately their own professional app, while PhotoDraw was just good for non-professional users who could afford O2K Premium and wanted to try out the program.

Longer-term, IMHO, if PhotoDraw were placed alongside the most premium version of Office XP and then Office 2003 (and also sold separately to people who wished to have a different purchasing plan for Office productivity software), it would have given buyers of these Office packages more value.
-Mardus 02:51, 23 October 2006 (UTC)