::: {.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 …
more ...::: {.Section1} [Peter Coffee’s pre-PDC column correctly points out that truly compelling apps such as eBay, Google, and videogames are built, not in the abstract realms of virtual machines but with painstaking attention to hardware capabilities. This is one reason why [knowing C++ is the most important qualification for those …
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