IF Philips is going to stick to the DICOM format, and not add lots of proprietary stuff, _and_ it's the format that it uses internally, then this will be good.
For example, folks can check out OpenSlide (https://openslide.org) and have a look at all the different slide formats that exist. If you dig in to Philips' entry, you'll see that OpenSlide does not support Philips' non-TIFF format (iSyntax), and that the TIFF format is an "export format".
If you have a Philips microscope that uses iSyntax, you are very limited on what non-Philips software you can use. If you want files in TIFF format, you (the lab tech) have to take an action to export a side in TIFF. It can take up a fair amount of lab tech time.
Ideally, the microscope should immediately store the images in an open format, with metadata that workflow software can use to check if a scanning run is complete. I _hope_ that will be able to happen here!