I believe there is something in the drivers that disables the digital output when playing back WMA encrypted content. I'm sure I remember reading that Creative issued a driver update in order to comply with this. To get a driver digitally signed by Microsoft requires implementing these "features". This is certainly one of the areas that MS will address with NGSCB. I expect by then it will be impossible to play back encrypted content with unsigned drivers.
that was the messenger service not windows messenger, its not the same thing. The messenger service was an rpc service running by default on windows 2000 and XP. People could send messages to any machine just by typing "net send ip.ip.ip.ip blahblahblah" at the command prompt. The spammers used programs to send out thousands of messages against whole ranges of ips. The message was more effective because it looked like a windows system dialog rather than an IM message. Messenger service will be disabled by default from XP SP2.
Windows messenger has the feature already for you to protect yourself from unwanted messenges.
"Only people on my Allow List can see my status and send me messages"
Well maybe its not caught on in the US but in europe its everywhere.
I have 7 bluetooth devices in this room and an access point/print server next door.
All the recent ipaqs have it built in. All the higher end mobile phones have it built in. Powerbooks, G4s G5s etc have it as an option. Lots of PC laptops have it as an option. MS, Apple and Logitech are selling keyboards and mice. OS X has had native support since 10.2. Native Windows support will roll out with XP SP2. There are hundreds of bluetooth USB, PCMCIA, CF Card, SD-IO card adaptors available for devices without it built in. BT headsets are selling all over the place. Some for only 30. People use it for synching contacts, calenders and tasks between Phones PDAs, and PCs People use it to connect PDAs and Laptops to the internet via GPRS bluetooth phones. You can even get bluetooth GPS devices which can be used with PDAs, Laptops and SmartPhones, and Bluetooth Pens for taking electronic notes. check out http://www.expansys.com/d_bluetooth.asp or http://www.blueunplugged.com/ to see what is available.
There is no support for DVD playing in Windows without purchasing a third party software/hardware mpeg2 decoder pack.
Theres a link in Windows Media Player to a site listing several available packs, or you can install a third party app like powerdvd and it enables WMP but out of the box windows XP cannot playback DVDs
I think it has to do with licensing the codec/decryption keys. MS didn't want to have to pay royalties for every copy of Windows shipped.
PDF support would be quite nice though. Acrobat reader gets slower and slower with each release. If Apple can include it in the OS why not MS?
Umm, where have you been for the last two weeks? That is exactly what they have planned for longhorn. Everything on screen is a vector that is manipulated,animated and rendered directly on the graphics card. It means the whole destop is scalable, and many new effects are possible.
This is more than apple does with Quartz Extreme. Quartz renders a bitmap for each app in software and quartz extreme is just used to composit the bitmaps on the desktop and add transparency and effects.
Read up on Avalon, Xaml, and the DCE. longhorn.msdn.microsoft.com
You can set it not to require authorisation for a specific paired device. Once you have paired the phone and the powerbook, you should not need to have to enter the code every time.
If you have bluetooth on and set to discoverable people can send you vCards containing their messages.
There are more security options on phones usually, but people don't know they are there and it phone is open by default.
Well one thing that definately covers this is the "Save my settings wizard" that is part of Office XP. This stores you MS Office settings on a Microsoft Server under a passport account and allow you to restore them to a different machine.
Office XP was released in 2001 wasn't it? So this is clearly invalid.
I don't think MS would stand for paying royalties, they have just announced all sorts of web based and OneTouch app deployment techniques as part of Longhorn. Someone will have to make this paten go away before that arrives.
Its not the Kernel that is being rewritten in Managed code, thats still plain old NT, albeit version 6. Its the crashprone stuff like explorer.exe and iexplore.exe thats being rewritten. A sizeable chunk of Windows nontheless. I expect a lot of the problems with explorer came from all the inprocess com objects and third party shell extensions. The.Net version can use remoting calls across appdomains so that plugins cannot effect the core shell.
The whole TabletPC concept is built on using Digital Ink as another data type that can be transfered between applications, edited, converted to text, etc. By running Linux on your TC1000 you are loosing all that. If that wasn't a concern why buy a Tablet PC at all? Just get a laptop. I admit the TC1000 can be slow, but until Linux can come up with an equivelent scheme and handwriting recognition engine that can be integrated into applications running Windows is the only way to make use of the features. Also $200 of the price of the tablet will have been the copy of Tablet PC Edition. If you've paid for it you might as well use it.
Someone should have modded this funny I thought it was funny Didn't anyone else think it was funny? I honestly believe that this is funny. Where are the +1 Funny moderations?
seems to do exactly the same thing as left clicking it.
i do keep finding new things in itunes though. right-clicking on the little play icon in the track name window changes it to a graphic equalizer. that was prett cool.
but it is slow at resizing. If I have outline-draggin turned on in windows why does it not do outline-resizing as well.
The windows version is UPNP, at the moment its only used for configuring routers but there are plans to extend it to managing media sources and output devices on other machines. A combination of UPNP and their P2P ipv6 service was supposed to be the architecture for all sorts of zero configuration functions on windows networks.
Also MS planned a service for full library synchronisation with portable music players, looks like apple beat them to that with the ipod as well.
In some ways apple has jumped in front of MS by offering the services on windows boxes that were only planned to be released with Longhorn a full three years ahead.
When I said player I was refering to the ipod. iTunes can only sync with an ipod, WMP can sync with any audio player that someone writes the drivers for.
Thats why its NTFS underneath. A game knows exactly which files it needs to load and where tehy are stored so it will just use standard file system calls. A productivity suite will show a dialog box with a query interface for the user to seach for the files. It will get from the database the actual path to where the data is stored an load it in the normal fashion. Its more of a shell extension than a new file system its the best of both worlds. You don't need system files and program files to be indexed in a database, most people don't spend time searching for them, but user created files and digital content will be indexed for better searching.
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Well WMP has a plug-in architecture that allows other hardware manufactures to integrate with it for file transfers to portable devices. They were also working on a service for integrating the music libary on a player into the general WinFS library whenever it is attached.
Apples program integrates with one player and one music service, Microsofts will integrate with all of them, provided they work the way Microsoft wants them to.
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Well the jpeg exif format that most camaras use has a certain amount of information. Camera manufacturer, model, exposure, flash mode etc. If your camera has a clock it will store the date and time the picture was taken. What I personally would like to see is the camera also storing GPS coordinates, but that might be rather overengineering, perhaps only phone cameras will have that kind of feature.
Part of the WinFS project will be to create lots of import translators that detect when files are being added to a WinFS drive and read out the standard metadata.
That level doesn't include who is in the photo but it does provide a lot of information for locating it. I expect you could easily apply a tag to a whole set of files at once such as "Holiday Snaps".
With a database and metadata standard in place theres no reason why third parties couldn't implement other cataloging features like facial recognition into the system. Just show it some pictures of your family and friends and it will pick them out in your other photos.
One of the pushes from MS is for third party developers in include a metadata standard with all the files that they save. A lot of the metadata needed can be provided by the program itself at the time the file is saved. I expect the programs will start to ask a few questions, "What projects is this file related to?", "Which contacts does it involve?", In this way much of the metadata is created as part of the natural workflow and it doesn't feel like an massive exercise in tagging everything.
At some point the cost of hardware fell below the cost of a programmer. Is it better to pay someone to tweak and optimise code for a couple of months to reduce memory footprint, at the same time risking creating new bugs, or just buy a 256mb stick for $30?
As programmers we all want to try to write tight efficient code but businesses would rather have features, stability and maintainability.
Thats where Java and.Net come in. Rapid development, high level OOP design, automatic memory management etc. It may not be efficient but it works and if you want more speed throw more hardware at it. As long as the cost of hardware keeps falling then code bloat is the way things will go.
This doesn't work so well with critical sections of the OS kernel. That is mostly still written in C but it requires intensive testing for the smallest modifications.
Also Microsoft doesn't target new OS releases at old hardware. Look at the problems trying to run win2k on non acpi compliant systems. Most sales come from OEMs with their Windows Logo Certified boxes. They still sell upgrades for home users but they would prefer not to because they don't want people calling them for support. Look at product activation, a non issue for OEM boxes as the copy of the OS is tied to the BIOS. If Longhorn or the version after that requires TCPA to function you may find you can't just buy it off the shelf. The only way to get the TabletPC and Media Centre varients is to get them with hardware.
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Yep thats what I'm getting from it too. It will be interesting to learn a bit more after the PDC.
I don't think weill get a chance to play with it for a while yet. It sounds like it is taking a long time to implement. Probably won't be in a Longhorn beta until 2005.
I quite like the idea of an end-to-end.Net solution..Net queries and transactions..Net data access..Net business logic..Net web interface.
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Windows Server 2003 does this with Volume Shadow Copy.
You can perform daily buckups on network shares and there is even a client for windows that lets the user select which version of the file they want to open. No more support calls for accidentaly deleted files.
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I believe there is something in the drivers that disables the digital output when playing back WMA encrypted content. I'm sure I remember reading that Creative issued a driver update in order to comply with this. To get a driver digitally signed by Microsoft requires implementing these "features".
This is certainly one of the areas that MS will address with NGSCB. I expect by then it will be impossible to play back encrypted content with unsigned drivers.
that was the messenger service not windows messenger, its not the same thing. The messenger service was an rpc service running by default on windows 2000 and XP. People could send messages to any machine just by typing "net send ip.ip.ip.ip blahblahblah" at the command prompt. The spammers used programs to send out thousands of messages against whole ranges of ips.
The message was more effective because it looked like a windows system dialog rather than an IM message. Messenger service will be disabled by default from XP SP2.
Windows messenger has the feature already for you to protect yourself from unwanted messenges.
"Only people on my Allow List can see my status and send me messages"
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Well maybe its not caught on in the US but in europe its everywhere.
I have 7 bluetooth devices in this room and an access point/print server next door.
All the recent ipaqs have it built in.
All the higher end mobile phones have it built in.
Powerbooks, G4s G5s etc have it as an option.
Lots of PC laptops have it as an option.
MS, Apple and Logitech are selling keyboards and mice.
OS X has had native support since 10.2.
Native Windows support will roll out with XP SP2.
There are hundreds of bluetooth USB, PCMCIA, CF Card, SD-IO card adaptors available for devices without it built in.
BT headsets are selling all over the place. Some for only 30.
People use it for synching contacts, calenders and tasks between Phones PDAs, and PCs
People use it to connect PDAs and Laptops to the internet via GPRS bluetooth phones.
You can even get bluetooth GPS devices which can be used with PDAs, Laptops and SmartPhones, and Bluetooth Pens for taking electronic notes.
check out http://www.expansys.com/d_bluetooth.asp or http://www.blueunplugged.com/ to see what is available.
There is no support for DVD playing in Windows without purchasing a third party software/hardware mpeg2 decoder pack.
Theres a link in Windows Media Player to a site listing several available packs, or you can install a third party app like powerdvd and it enables WMP but out of the box windows XP cannot playback DVDs
I think it has to do with licensing the codec/decryption keys. MS didn't want to have to pay royalties for every copy of Windows shipped.
PDF support would be quite nice though. Acrobat reader gets slower and slower with each release.
If Apple can include it in the OS why not MS?
Umm, where have you been for the last two weeks?
That is exactly what they have planned for longhorn.
Everything on screen is a vector that is manipulated,animated and rendered directly on the graphics card.
It means the whole destop is scalable, and many new effects are possible.
This is more than apple does with Quartz Extreme. Quartz renders a bitmap for each app in software and quartz extreme is just used to composit the bitmaps on the desktop and add transparency and effects.
Read up on Avalon, Xaml, and the DCE.
longhorn.msdn.microsoft.com
You can set it not to require authorisation for a specific paired device. Once you have paired the phone and the powerbook, you should not need to have to enter the code every time.
If you have bluetooth on and set to discoverable people can send you vCards containing their messages.
There are more security options on phones usually, but people don't know they are there and it phone is open by default.
Well one thing that definately covers this is the "Save my settings wizard" that is part of Office XP. This stores you MS Office settings on a Microsoft Server under a passport account and allow you to restore them to a different machine.
Office XP was released in 2001 wasn't it? So this is clearly invalid.
I don't think MS would stand for paying royalties, they have just announced all sorts of web based and OneTouch app deployment techniques as part of Longhorn. Someone will have to make this paten go away before that arrives.
"ship betas till the "cows come home"."
Thats a good way to describe Longhorn. Was is deliberate?
Its not the Kernel that is being rewritten in Managed code, thats still plain old NT, albeit version 6. Its the crashprone stuff like explorer.exe and iexplore.exe thats being rewritten. A sizeable chunk of Windows nontheless. .Net version can use remoting calls across appdomains so that plugins cannot effect the core shell.
I expect a lot of the problems with explorer came from all the inprocess com objects and third party shell extensions. The
I use mine to read /. So thats about 700,000 people.
And to take notes at Uni.
The whole TabletPC concept is built on using Digital Ink as another data type that can be transfered between applications, edited, converted to text, etc. By running Linux on your TC1000 you are loosing all that. If that wasn't a concern why buy a Tablet PC at all? Just get a laptop.
I admit the TC1000 can be slow, but until Linux can come up with an equivelent scheme and handwriting recognition engine that can be integrated into applications running Windows is the only way to make use of the features.
Also $200 of the price of the tablet will have been the copy of Tablet PC Edition. If you've paid for it you might as well use it.
Theres an API that loads you default virus scanner to examine the contents of the document after it has been decrypted.
Someone should have modded this funny
I thought it was funny
Didn't anyone else think it was funny?
I honestly believe that this is funny.
Where are the +1 Funny moderations?
seems to do exactly the same thing as left clicking it.
i do keep finding new things in itunes though. right-clicking on the little play icon in the track name window changes it to a graphic equalizer. that was prett cool.
but it is slow at resizing. If I have outline-draggin turned on in windows why does it not do outline-resizing as well.
The windows version is UPNP, at the moment its only used for configuring routers but there are plans to extend it to managing media sources and output devices on other machines. A combination of UPNP and their P2P ipv6 service was supposed to be the architecture for all sorts of zero configuration functions on windows networks.
Also MS planned a service for full library synchronisation with portable music players, looks like apple beat them to that with the ipod as well.
In some ways apple has jumped in front of MS by offering the services on windows boxes that were only planned to be released with Longhorn a full three years ahead.
When I said player I was refering to the ipod. iTunes can only sync with an ipod, WMP can sync with any audio player that someone writes the drivers for.
Thats why its NTFS underneath. A game knows exactly which files it needs to load and where tehy are stored so it will just use standard file system calls.
A productivity suite will show a dialog box with a query interface for the user to seach for the files. It will get from the database the actual path to where the data is stored an load it in the normal fashion. Its more of a shell extension than a new file system its the best of both worlds.
You don't need system files and program files to be indexed in a database, most people don't spend time searching for them, but user created files and digital content will be indexed for better searching.
Do you mean the Installable File System Development Kit?
Well WMP has a plug-in architecture that allows other hardware manufactures to integrate with it for file transfers to portable devices. They were also working on a service for integrating the music libary on a player into the general WinFS library whenever it is attached.
Apples program integrates with one player and one music service, Microsofts will integrate with all of them, provided they work the way Microsoft wants them to.
Well the jpeg exif format that most camaras use has a certain amount of information. Camera manufacturer, model, exposure, flash mode etc. If your camera has a clock it will store the date and time the picture was taken. What I personally would like to see is the camera also storing GPS coordinates, but that might be rather overengineering, perhaps only phone cameras will have that kind of feature.
Part of the WinFS project will be to create lots of import translators that detect when files are being added to a WinFS drive and read out the standard metadata.
That level doesn't include who is in the photo but it does provide a lot of information for locating it. I expect you could easily apply a tag to a whole set of files at once such as "Holiday Snaps".
With a database and metadata standard in place theres no reason why third parties couldn't implement other cataloging features like facial recognition into the system. Just show it some pictures of your family and friends and it will pick them out in your other photos.
One of the pushes from MS is for third party developers in include a metadata standard with all the files that they save. A lot of the metadata needed can be provided by the program itself at the time the file is saved.
I expect the programs will start to ask a few questions, "What projects is this file related to?", "Which contacts does it involve?", In this way much of the metadata is created as part of the natural workflow and it doesn't feel like an massive exercise in tagging everything.
You have to consider the cost in these things.
.Net come in. Rapid development, high level OOP design, automatic memory management etc. It may not be efficient but it works and if you want more speed throw more hardware at it. As long as the cost of hardware keeps falling then code bloat is the way things will go.
At some point the cost of hardware fell below the cost of a programmer. Is it better to pay someone to tweak and optimise code for a couple of months to reduce memory footprint, at the same time risking creating new bugs, or just buy a 256mb stick for $30?
As programmers we all want to try to write tight efficient code but businesses would rather have features, stability and maintainability.
Thats where Java and
This doesn't work so well with critical sections of the OS kernel. That is mostly still written in C but it requires intensive testing for the smallest modifications.
Also Microsoft doesn't target new OS releases at old hardware. Look at the problems trying to run win2k on non acpi compliant systems. Most sales come from OEMs with their Windows Logo Certified boxes. They still sell upgrades for home users but they would prefer not to because they don't want people calling them for support. Look at product activation, a non issue for OEM boxes as the copy of the OS is tied to the BIOS.
If Longhorn or the version after that requires TCPA to function you may find you can't just buy it off the shelf. The only way to get the TabletPC and Media Centre varients is to get them with hardware.
Yep thats what I'm getting from it too. It will be interesting to learn a bit more after the PDC.
.Net solution. .Net queries and transactions. .Net data access. .Net business logic. .Net web interface.
I don't think weill get a chance to play with it for a while yet. It sounds like it is taking a long time to implement. Probably won't be in a Longhorn beta until 2005.
I quite like the idea of an end-to-end
Windows Server 2003 does this with Volume Shadow Copy.
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You can perform daily buckups on network shares and there is even a client for windows that lets the user select which version of the file they want to open. No more support calls for accidentaly deleted files.
http://www.fawcette.com/special/storage/ruest_1