::: {.Section1} [WPF/E was also shown at the PDC. This is a XAML + JavaScript (!) solution for delivering Avalon-like graphics on devices. I’m scanning the catalog to see if there are classes available on this, which seems like a startlingly odd combination of technologies.]{style="font-size:10.0pt; font-family:Arial …
more ...::: {.Section1} [According to Bill Gates, 200 million PCs were shipped last year (are going to be shipped this year?). +12% growth. This builds into the point that in the few years after Vista ships, 500 million PCs will be purchases, 200 million of which will be “capable of being upgraded …
more ...::: {.Section1} [Superfetch is Vista ’s an enhancement to the virtual memory manager that handles the swapping of application RAM in and off the disk. Superfetch looks like a good idea, it basically seems to look at usage patterns over time and use this knowledge to pre-cache the most commonly-used DLLs …
more ...::: {.Section1} [Microsoft showed Office 12 for the first time in public during the keynotes. The most obvious thing is that they’ve gotten rid of dropdown menus; choosing a high-level menu now puts a taskbar in a tabbed interface (I think is how it works – it was difficult to comprehend …
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::: {.Section1} [Hilton Locke has revealed that Microsoft is okaying OEM’s to ship Windows XP Tablet PC Edition with touch-screens rather than active digitizers. (Not that active digitizers will die, not that active digitizers aren’t infinitely better than touch-screens, but touch-screens are cheaper.)]{style="font-size: 10.0pt;font-family:Arial …
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more ...::: {.Section1} [Today Microsoft went public with Language Integrated Query (LINQ), which builds on top of a just-announced.NET 2.0 library called the Integrated Query Framework. At its most basic level, LINQ is the ability to apply SQL-like operators to arbitrary. NET collections. The operators provided are "relationally complete" meaning …
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