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Microsoft Adding Blogs to Longhorn?
prostoalex writes "A Microsoft Research project called 'Wallop' has weblogging and document-sharing features and will be integrated into the next-generation Microsoft OS. In related news, MSN is being split into two subdivisions, one of which will take care of communications tools (Messenger, Passport, Hotmail, ISP service), while the other will deal with Web properties (MSN.com, etc.)"
You're wrong. Quartz Extreme writes most everything to the framebuffer, the work is done on the CPU. Even their own little flowchart on the link you provided says this. OpenGL goes to the GPU - Quartz3D is done in the CPU and sent to the framebuffer.
http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/10/29/14 21223&mode=thread&tid=109&tid=187
My HTML skills really suck, sorry for not formatting it, but it was the first thing to jump into my head when I read the article.
Yup...
FYI: Apple ALREADY integrated the iBlog software (free with
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without going to far into it, heres what apple has to say about their technology. Any MacOSX user can attest to this providing real tangible benifits on their system From the Apple link in the parent post: (yea it's marketing, but it's not false) "Quartz uses the integrated OpenGL technology to convert each window into a texture, then sends it to the graphics card to render on screen..." "Quartz Extreme uses a supported graphics card built into your Mac to relieve the main PowerPC chip of on screen calculations. This dramatically improves system performance..." Of course the CPU is involved however, QE is CPU independent as the requirements are for a GPU... "Quartz Extreme functionality is supported by the following video GPUs: NVIDIA GeForce2 MX, GeForce3, GeForce4 MX, or GeForce4 Ti or any AGP-based ATI RADEON GPU. A minimum of 16MB VRAM is required." This is all moot, since no windows user will have longhorn (legally) in their hands for another 12+ months or so, please let me know when some Linux distro gets around to it too.. -fugoo
"Microsoft Adding Bugs to Longhorn?"
Microsoft is talking about all this new funtionality thats going to be put into longhorn. Although these features sound great, shouldn't they decide on a feature set and then work to make it stable?
With open source development features seem to be "planned", not just stuck in so they can include buzzwords in their advertising. By MS incorporating all of these features which, IMO most probably could just be at the application level, they will be adding bugs all over the place.
Now security bugs are the worst because they compromise your personal information but I find it really annoying when something doesn't work the way it should. With all of these pieces interacting with each other how easy to use is long horn going to really be? How many of the features are going to work fully and how many are just going to break other ones? When do we draw the line? What features are actually useful to an OS? Don't you think by incorportating all of these things within the OS itself MS is actually taking away 3rd party opportunities. Can't this be done at the application level? Why not release a MS Blogger so for us who might want to use it, we'll go get it. For the rest, they can choose to not run one at all or one of their choice?
Remember "set program access and defaults"? I can imagine microsoft having to add last minute hacks in so that we can actually use our own software.
Maybe they are planning to add security by only allowing their code to run on it. Pretty soon our computers will be contacting a microsoft address to be granted priviliages to run your own code. Sometimes i hear people complaining that linux distros are full of bloat but c'mon. A blogger in an OS? Why?
Just because MS is researching something doesn't mean it's going to be in Longhorn... check out Pastry.