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Microsoft Releases Photosynth
Spy Hunter writes "Photosynth has graduated from a 'tech preview' to a complete service. Now you can upload your own photos and have them automatically transformed into a 'synth': a 3D fly-through reconstruction of your home, your vacation, or anything else you can take pictures of. Learn more about Photosynth at the official blog, see what Walt Mossberg has to say about it, or just go try it out right now." According to Mossberg, Photosynth works on PCs using IE or Firefox, but not yet on Macs. We've been discussing Photosynth since its introduction.
If a Quad G5 is just 30% slower than Quad Xeon (first gen), it is not obsolete. It is just "not shipped anymore".
For example, an OS and hardware combination which isn't Y2K compliant unless massive changes in software which is beyond anyones budget, it is considered "obsolete".
You can view the real obsolete stuff at Flash Player download page at Adobe, you will see some versions are stuck in 7.x 6.x or so on.
As Silverlight was created at first hand to punish users who doesn't use Windows, it sounds perfectly normal to me as PPC user. I believe if that junk takes off (thanks to bribery deals to NBC etc), in a convenient time, they will start lagging new versions to those OS X/Intel users too. All Mac scene knows it so they don't really give a heck to Silverlight at all.
It is just MS tries too hard to prove they are the old, evil MS.