Long term value is what is needed. Not short term decisions which strip assets and long term strength in trade for short term magic accounting numbers.
Yea, I have considered stock price based compensation fundamentally flawed for a while now.
And the graphics card is only required if you want Aero. At least in theory Vista and later will work on most computers from 2000 or so that have enough RAM and HD space, partly because it can use XP/2000 drivers.
Well, they already had what was effectively a point release with XP SP2. The problem is that the hardware support was not much better than SP1, despite Intel's 915 chipset with PCIe, AHCI, HD Audio, etc, coming out around the same time it was released that made XP's hardware support looking seriously outdated. Thanks God for the increasing prevalence of USB flash drives around the same time and that XP SP1 introduced support for USB 2.0.
They are not killing XP support today, they are killing XP support in three years. It is part of their standard support lifecycle for most MS products. This gadget reminds users when XP will no longer be supported.
FYI, the software renderer used by IE9 is actually built into the updated DirectX that is shipped with Win7 and Platform Update for Vista that is required by IE9. It is called WRAP, and it basically software emulates Direct3D/Direct2D/DirectWrite calls.
That fallback is actually built into the updated DirectX that is shipped with Win7 and Platform Update for Vista. It is called WRAP, and it basically software emulated Direct3D/Direct2D/DirectWrite calls.
I have just (in the last three months) upgraded one of my clients from IE6 to IE8 and they still need to run it in IE7 mode as plenty of their intranet stuff doesn't work on IE8.
Yes, that kind of thing is what IE7 mode is for. In fact they default intranet sites to IE7 mode for that reason. And note that IE8/IE9's compatiblity mode IS IE7 mode.
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Right click any Flash object and click "Global Settings". On the following webpage click on the link to the Global Settings Panel.
Yep, this page was there for some time, but only with Flash 10.1 did they add a entry to the pop-up menu that links to it.
Don't forget the IBM PC itself too that was based on x86 too.
Yep, don't forget Win98 was released around the same time as the iMac.
Yep, Intel added USB support back in 1996 with it's PIIX3 southbridge.
In fact, that is exactly what a Thunderbolt bus controller does. It exposes a PCIe x4 on the other side.
Long term value is what is needed. Not short term decisions which strip assets and long term strength in trade for short term magic accounting numbers.
Yea, I have considered stock price based compensation fundamentally flawed for a while now.
Which is why signing away your right to choose an arbiter should be illegal.
And the graphics card is only required if you want Aero. At least in theory Vista and later will work on most computers from 2000 or so that have enough RAM and HD space, partly because it can use XP/2000 drivers.
Yea, it is unfortunate that Steve Jobs don't have the time to write a long email explaining what is happening.
Well, they already had what was effectively a point release with XP SP2. The problem is that the hardware support was not much better than SP1, despite Intel's 915 chipset with PCIe, AHCI, HD Audio, etc, coming out around the same time it was released that made XP's hardware support looking seriously outdated. Thanks God for the increasing prevalence of USB flash drives around the same time and that XP SP1 introduced support for USB 2.0.
Yea in case of SATA you have to use F6 to load drivers from a floppy or set it to compatiblity mode.
And don't forget the netbooks was released after Vista in which Vista did not fit, leading MS to continue to sell XP for them even in 2009.
WPA2 is a blocker, and it's pull a cable, or back to shipping hundreds of megabytes on your flash drive.
Or KB893357 can be installed on top of XP SP2 for WPA2.
One of the goals of 7 is to fit on netbooks which couldn't run Vista, and nowadays 7 is replacing XP on netbooks.
They are not killing XP support today, they are killing XP support in three years. It is part of their standard support lifecycle for most MS products. This gadget reminds users when XP will no longer be supported.
I hope that the MS-Novell deal will finally expire without renewal.
FYI, the software renderer used by IE9 is actually built into the updated DirectX that is shipped with Win7 and Platform Update for Vista that is required by IE9. It is called WRAP, and it basically software emulates Direct3D/Direct2D/DirectWrite calls.
Easy -- SHGetFolderPath(). But, that function is not present on Win98 that did not have a specific Internet Explorer (???) update.
MS shipped shfolder.dll as a redist for older OSes to provide this API.
That fallback is actually built into the updated DirectX that is shipped with Win7 and Platform Update for Vista. It is called WRAP, and it basically software emulated Direct3D/Direct2D/DirectWrite calls.
I have just (in the last three months) upgraded one of my clients from IE6 to IE8 and they still need to run it in IE7 mode as plenty of their intranet stuff doesn't work on IE8.
Yes, that kind of thing is what IE7 mode is for. In fact they default intranet sites to IE7 mode for that reason. And note that IE8/IE9's compatiblity mode IS IE7 mode.
It doesn't help that they decided to make AACS mandatory for replicated Blu-Ray, unlike HD DVD which can be DRM-free.
Luckily, thanks to dual-class stock, this can't happen.
I consider google neutral regarding software patents for a while now.
Unfortunately the 3G iPod touch can't handle it anyway.
Actually, the last two generations of the iPod touch/iPhone should be supported by iOS 4.3.
iOS 4.3 has a new JavaScript engine that should be much faster. Unfortunately the 3G iPod touch can't handle it anyway.