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At the Windows Hardware Engineering Conference

Posted by michael on from the nuts-and-bolts dept.

downix writes "At Toms Hardware they're running an article where they discuss the next-generation Windows graphics system. The big part of the scoop, it's being done via DirectX. Have to validate those 2Ghz CPU's and GPU's that need their own nuclear power plant to run somehow." Some other interesting things there - quiet PCs, more about the Oqo, etc.

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  1. Can't wait for... by toupsie · · Score: 4, Funny

    ...how the PC industry is going to take Apple's styling, innovations and designs and incorporate them into Windows hardware. I guess its better late than never...

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  2. A single calcified tear... by dryueh · · Score: 4, Funny
    The sad thing is that with Microsoft's recent anti-trust woes, company execs just don't have that same pep, and arrogance of the past. They've become almost too nice and friendly.

    Yeah...my thoughts exactly.

    .....too nice and friendly; poor guys.

  3. It's nice to see Microsoft is leading the way... by teamhasnoi · · Score: 3, Funny

    Ensuring that my 7ghz machine with 40 gigs of ram and 520 TB of HD storage will still choke on a mp12 while scrolling with my MS MindMouse.

  4. I liked the article photo... by cygnusx · · Score: 3, Funny

    Microsoft staffers spent a long time hand carving this imposing statue of BillG at the entrance to WinHEC. Based on Native American folklore from the Northwest apparently it wards off government lawyers. :)

  5. more than 8bpp! by sfraggle · · Score: 3, Funny

    Quote from article:

    24-bit True Color, or 8 bits per pixel, is not enough. Microsoft is pushing graphics board vendors to implement greater than 8 bpp in order.

    This is great! Its so awful being stuck with only 256 colours to choose from! Think of all the different shades of blue they'll have in the next version of windows!

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  6. Little People are the Answer by ksplatter · · Score: 1, Funny

    I think that Bill Gates has built a minituration device that will shrink humans. He is then going to art colleges around the country and shrinking those liberal pains in the ass. Then M$ ships them back to Washinton and gives them little colored pencils. The final step is inserting them into pc's running windows and hooking them up to the processor. When you turn on the PC they go crazy nuts and draw all the graphics super fast. The only problem is that they die in a week and your pc is full of little dead people. -THat was the technikal xpla-nation