Microsoft is one of 59 members of the Association for Competitive Technology. The only victim here is the readership of Slashdot. There is a concerted campaign here to slate Microsoft regardless of any basis in reality.
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That's disingenuous at best.
Microsoft may be one of 59, but most of the rest are Microsoft partners.
To pick only the headlined companies:
These smaller, entrepreneurial technology firms like Sax Software, ComponentSource and EnsuredMail have long been the driving force behind innovation and job growth in the industry.
Sax Software; Microsoft VB and ActiveX tools.
ComponentSource; Microsoft WinForms, ASP.NET, WPF and Silverlight tools & controls.
I'm Googling it and apparently it's been deleted from the Internet.
It's odd that the commentary has vanished, but the original interview site still exists.
"I knew from day one that it would be a tricky process," says project maestro Steve Ball, group program manager for Vista. In the end, it took 18 months--and a team of 20 composers, sound designers, engineers, and developers.
There are so many ways to disable automatic updating, it's not even funny.
Repeat after me: You can't trust closed-source software
A group of Canadian human-rights activists and computer security researchers has discovered a huge surveillance system in China that monitors and archives certain [Skype] Internet text conversations that include politically charged words.
Frankly I would love an ARM based notebook except for just a few issues.
1. Flash. Like it or not Flash is everywhere and I have not seen a Linux ARM version.
2. Java. I need it and JavaFX could be a nice alternative to Silverlight/Moonlight.
ARM licensed Java from Sun years ago, and include hardware acceleration for Java apps via Jazelle. In addition, Adobe have said they will have a version Flash 10 for ARM sometime this year.
So get your wallet out.
At $199, these netbooks won't cost you and arm and a leg...
Would those patents include an in hardware x86 instructionset translator to their GPU instructionset?
Could be.
There was a big fight in the chipmaking world over a bunch of patents covering hardware x86/Instruction set translation, which included multicore parallel instruction processing. They were originally held by a company called Exponential Technologies, and though Intel wanted them badly, were grabbed by S3 for ten million in an auction.
In the end, S3 and Intel agreed on a time-limited cross licensing deal. That agreement ended in December 2008.
In just a short time HP took what the open source clowns had been working so hard on
What part of open source didn't you understand?
The HP developers who made this interface ARE "open source clowns", just like the clowns at the NSA who wrote SELinux, or the 600+ foolish developers in the IBM Linux Technology Centers, or the idiots over at NASA and SGI who contribute clustering software, or the morons in Fujitsu, Hitachi, Intel, NEC, Novell, NTT, etc, etc who also contribute.
You can get th HP UI source code here if you're really interested.
Do you think it will finally surpass Windows 2000?
No.
Despite all the hype, there's been no real workflow improvements in any version of Windows since W2K. Windows 7's major enhancement to usability is a better "Start" menu.
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Actually, the last item on the list - just below "Profiling the Performance of Distributed Systems" is very relevant to their main source of revenue.
"Closing Thoughts"; how very appropriate.
Reading things like this should give you a hint.
Whatever.
The only victim here is the readership of Slashdot. There is a concerted campaign here to slate Microsoft regardless of any basis in reality.
[1] [actonline.org]
That's disingenuous at best.
Microsoft may be one of 59, but most of the rest are Microsoft partners.
To pick only the headlined companies:
These smaller, entrepreneurial technology firms like Sax Software, ComponentSource and EnsuredMail have long been the driving force behind innovation and job growth in the industry.
See any pattern there?
Examples?
It's odd that the commentary has vanished, but the original interview site still exists.
"I knew from day one that it would be a tricky process," says project maestro Steve Ball, group program manager for Vista. In the end, it took 18 months--and a team of 20 composers, sound designers, engineers, and developers.
Until the next exocytosis, anyway.
Stand clear! Steve's going to squirt...
Oh poor Slashdot, how far have ye fallen?
Repeat after me: You can't trust closed-source software
A group of Canadian human-rights activists and computer security researchers has discovered a huge surveillance system in China that monitors and archives certain [Skype] Internet text conversations that include politically charged words.
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/02/technology/internet/02skype.html?_r=1
Then put your name down for one of these.
ARM licensed Java from Sun years ago, and include hardware acceleration for Java apps via Jazelle. In addition, Adobe have said they will have a version Flash 10 for ARM sometime this year. So get your wallet out.
At $199, these netbooks won't cost you and arm and a leg...
Could be.
There was a big fight in the chipmaking world over a bunch of patents covering hardware x86/Instruction set translation, which included multicore parallel instruction processing. They were originally held by a company called Exponential Technologies, and though Intel wanted them badly, were grabbed by S3 for ten million in an auction.
In the end, S3 and Intel agreed on a time-limited cross licensing deal. That agreement ended in December 2008.
Coincidence?
Should've been TX, not WY
What part of open source didn't you understand?
The HP developers who made this interface ARE "open source clowns", just like the clowns at the NSA who wrote SELinux, or the 600+ foolish developers in the IBM Linux Technology Centers, or the idiots over at NASA and SGI who contribute clustering software, or the morons in Fujitsu, Hitachi, Intel, NEC, Novell, NTT, etc, etc who also contribute.
You can get th HP UI source code here if you're really interested.
Meh
I linked my porn stash to a directory called .secret in my girlfriend's home dir.
She thinks she's clever for having found it, and gets some great ideas from the porn. It's a win-win.
IBM doesn't make consumer-level hardware any more.
They sold that part of the business to Lenovo long ago.
Links please?
All the benchmark results I've seen show Win7 being within a few percentage points - less than the margin of error - of Vista's performance.
Interesting comment.
All the benchmarks I've seen so far show Vista/Win7 being close to 30% slower than XP running office apps on the same hardware.
Care to explain what makes it "better" enough to spend a couple of hundred dollars getting Win 7?
Clearest indication Windows 7 will be released soon?
Astroturf levels go well past "histrionic".
But does it run Vista?
By the time they'd got to Leningrad, you didn't have too much choice.
If you didn't beat them there, they've been in Moscow and you'd be Sprechen die Deutsch.
Well, he won't be reading Slashdot, 'cos he's an arsehole.
And now neither will anyone else from Thailand...
No.
Despite all the hype, there's been no real workflow improvements in any version of Windows since W2K. Windows 7's major enhancement to usability is a better "Start" menu.
Add whatever malware's invaded, and you'll never need to actually use your computer yourself.
Except as a doorstop, of course.
Singapore's not exactly the third world, you know.