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- Gates to look back, ahead on tools in his last Microsoft keynote
- Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates will continue his long goodbye on June 3 with his last public tradeshow keynote at the company's TechEd Developers Conference in Orlando. (Gates will no longer be engaged in day-to-day responsibilities at Microsoft as of July 1, so that he can work more...
- Blog posts 2008-06-03
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- MSDN Webcast: geekSpeak: Parallel Computing APIs in .NET 4.0 With Mark Michaelis (Level 200)
- The presenters chat about how .NET 4.0 simplifies this paradigm with new APIs that leverage the power of recent .NET language extensions and .NET 4.0 API enhancements - Task Parallel Library and ParallelLINQ.
- Webcasts 2009-05-06
- VMware's cloud computing announcements
- VMware told us more about its cloud computing strategy, cleverly named "vCloud". If you'll remember, Paul Maritz please see Notes from VMworld for a discussion of the inital announcement of this strategy. This time, a bit more information on VMware's Virtual Datacenter Operating system (VDC-OS) and VMware's VCloud API. Although...
- Blog posts 2009-02-25
- Towards a robotic society in 2020?
- Towards a robotic society in 2020?Any Asimov reader could spew this drivelWe are more than 10 years away from the positronic brain!How about a free Nestor Class 5?And I'll use it to help me cook sweetpotato pie!I could JUST SEE Mr. Data cooking in Will Smith's Grama's Kitchen... Well, at...
- Discussion threads 2008-12-06
- Windows 7: preview of final user interface and 'studenty' features
- It's a difficult and strange time for many in the IT industry. It seems most people from home consumers to students, IT professionals and governments have rejected Windows Vista, and many have their reservations about Windows 7. Will it be another disaster like Vista? Or will it...
- Blog posts 2008-10-28
- Google Chrome is complementary to Firefox
- Google Chrome is complementary to FirefoxAt lasta blogger who understands open source. Every idiot on the internet tries to paint Chrome as competition to Mozilla. They do not have the vaguest clue......RE: Google Chrome is complementary to FirefoxI am excited. I like firefox but with Googles track record,...
- Discussion threads 2008-09-02
- Tahiti: Microsoft's ultimate many-core destination
- Tahiti: Microsoft's ultimate many-core destinationmulticoreinfo.comCheck out http://multicoreinfo.com for multicore related news and programming resources.Tired of CoresI'm tired of the core nonsense. How about we use the existing cores more effectively?Anyone stick a scratched CD/DVD into a Vista machine and enjoy the explorer freeze-up while some blocking i/o is going on?...
- Discussion threads 2008-07-15
- News to know: Intel; Oracle; Microhoo; iPhone; Online video
- Notable headlines: Dancho Danchev: Remote code execution through Intel CPU bugs Nate McFeters: Symantec says Microsoft Access ActiveX attacks to increase Robin Harris: FTP: untrustworthy file transfer Dennis Howlett: Enterprise 2.0 looking more like 1.0? Dana Blankenhorn:...
- Blog posts 2008-07-15
- Postgres Plus 8.3.3 (Windows)
- Postgres Plus is a distribution of PostgreSQL that contains the following additional features integrated in a convenient installation package: Postgres Studio for administration, Procedural Language Debugger, Geospatial extensions, GridSQL Parallel Query, MySQL Migration utility, Slony-II for replication, and pgmemcached for application scaling. The package contains both BSD and GPLv2 licensed...
- Software downloads 2008-06-24
- Apple's <i>Grand Central</i> threat to Microsoft
- Apple's Grand Central threat to MicrosoftNecessary motivationIt could go something like this ...1. Software company APPLE realises it will get good press and follow-on sales by harnessing computing power in existing multi-core CPU's. If only they had better integration with the hardware ...2. GPU Hardware companies (ATI, NVIDIA) realise they...
- Discussion threads 2008-06-17
- UNIX - Let's get together and feel all right
- People have often accused me of dreaming too much and not having my thoughts anchored in reality, particularly in this world of multi-billion dollar technology companies and big business, when huge amounts of money are at stake and every competitor is vying for the top spot. In...
- Blog posts 2008-04-18
- Why business users should grab a copy of Microsoft's new robotics toolkit
- If you're a business user who thinks Aibos and sumo robots are fun and cute but irrelevant to the enterprise-software world, read on. On April 9, Microsoft is delivering a first test release of the third iteration of its robotics toolkit, Microsoft Robotics Developer Studio 2008. The...
- Blog posts 2008-04-09
- The purloined benchmark
- Last Wednesday I challenged Windows proponents to demonstrate a metric not based on market share which when fairly applied showed an advantage for Windows over Unix. Nobody took me up on it, but frequent contributor "ShadeTree" suggested that Windows would win with metrics based...
- Blog posts 2008-04-08
- Microsoft, Intel to team on new parallel, multicore research efforts
- In what has become a not-so-secret secret, Microsoft and Intel are set to unveil on March 18 their joint funding of more parallel-processing research work, according to various industry reports. EETimes says the Wintel couple will announce it is helping fund the new Parallel Computing Lab at...
- Blog posts 2008-03-17
- What are hot buttons for Microsoft on the programming-language futures front?
- What are hot buttons for Microsoft on the programming-language futures front? Several well-known Microsoft engineers, plus programming-language gurus from other companies, are convening on the company's Redmond campus this week for its second Lang.Net symposium. The three-day conference is all about the future of "programming languages, managed...
- Blog posts 2008-01-28
- The mind of a Mac fan
- I'm a user of and developer on Windows. In fact, I would go so far to say that I PREFER Windows. In fact, I prefer Windows so much that I have even chosen to work for the company that makes Windows (I've been an employee of Microsoft since May of...
- Blog posts 2007-12-04
- Microsoft readies early preview of new parallel-computing tool
- Microsoft execs have been talking up during the past year the ongoing shift to multi- and many-core technologies. Now the company is putting its programming tools where its mouth has been. Microsoft is making available as soon as this week an early preview build of what it's...
- Blog posts 2007-11-29
- Open source development is parallel processing in action
- Open source development is parallel processing in actionYou should investigate git and what role it will play in large"massively parallel" open source projects like the Linux kernel.Have you seen the video of Linus at Google talking about git?http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4XpnKHJAok8Standard issue for open source commiters: svn, git, cvsntNo I hadn't. ThanksI thought...
- Discussion threads 2007-10-24
- Media Center Extenders and programmable television
- As I've indicated in the past, I'm a user of Windows Vista Media Center. Up till now, however, I've mostly used it through my XBOX. That, however, isn't ideal, as I don't like leaving my XBOX on indefinitely for obvious reasons, and restarting the box usually takes time (not LOTS...
- Blog posts 2007-09-07
- MS-ManiC: Microsoft steps up its multicore work
- Microsoft officials have been talking up, as of late, the need for some fundamental changes in software design and development to accommodate the shift to many cores on client systems. There are several Microsoft Research projects focusing on various aspects of the many-core challenge. The newest and seemingly most far-reaching...
- Blog posts 2007-08-23
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