Jerry Dunietz - XML Paper Specification
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XPS (formerly code-named "Metro") is a new XML-based file format that we think you'll find interesting -- it's a great way to build a file that's easily interoperable with other applications or even printers. XPS stands for XML Paper Specification. To
learn more, we had Windows Vista evangelist Tim Sneath interview Jerry Dunietz, architect who worked on XPS.
Want to read more? Visit the Metro, er XPS, specification and reference guide or the XML Paper Specification link on the Windows Vista developer center.
Jerry gives us a demo of XPS that starts at about 19:40.
Want to read more? Visit the Metro, er XPS, specification and reference guide or the XML Paper Specification link on the Windows Vista developer center.
Jerry gives us a demo of XPS that starts at about 19:40.
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The greater value may be that this is also how PowerPoint and Excel will do it, and there is room for many custom document-oriented and maybe developer-oriented uses. (I would love to see it as a carrier for the components of a build/project, for example.)
I think the use of "Paper" is too narrow, but it seems that a lot of the wood behind this particular arrow is oriented to production printing models, although it could be nifty in the multi-function space too. It'll be interesting to see the next cut of the specification.
I thought you helped build the first Microsoft building? Guess he helped tip the cement into the foundation then
Edit: Nevermind, I realized that's more of the font design & XAML rendering function than XPS.
Can you say "Jimmy Hoffa"?
I thought you could
Of course.
I have my copy of OS/2 1.0 sitting on my shelf (that's the first product I worked on that RTM'ed, the others were OEM-only).
I gave up because I was avoiding doing my real work out of concern for losing the connection. So I tossed the connection and I'll try again another time.
Knowing the file size in advance would have helped me deal with this. I sent a note to Robert Scoble requesting that for Channel 9 videos.
There was construction happening on the floor above us. Strange sound, no? Wonder what they were working on...
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Lol, viewing the wmv at the moment and I was wondered what the harddrive on the background was doing and how large that pc was which made the noise. But it's construction.
For me to use this format there will need to be.
A free web-page service to convert XML-Paper documents into PDF documents.
Otherwise I would not know that the person I was sending a document to would be able to read it.
I don't see anything here prohibiting you from using Word and PDF now or in the future.
Now MS pretending PDF doesn't exist I can see (it was kind of funny to listen to this video describing Metro as if nothing like this has ever been done before, right down to the amazing printer driver that creates a document!).
Then again, I couldn't see MS integrating PDF creation like Apple and the Linux desktops do without being slapped with a long and hard lawsuit from Adobe for unfairly crushing their Acrobat Elements OEM business.
Word cost $$$ and XPS viewers will be free on Windows platform 'cuz they should be easy to implement. XPS should be better than PDF in preserving the printout 'cuz it's more intimate with GDI. Plus, I don't know if the PDF specs are opened or not.
It should be cross-platform, but I doubt MS will write viewers for other platforms (except maybe Mac OS X). 3rd parties can do that if they want.
Metro Spec
PDF Spec
The quotes could be - they're Dave's style. There is no comparison between OS/2 and NT (except for the command interpreter). There is essentially nothing in common between the two.
In college, my favorite class was the software performance class, the one I most regret not taking was the operating systems class (although I could probably teach it by now).
Yep.
And no the Intel mods are not permanent. I'm not that heartless.
Sometimes. I used it for web surfing and RSS reading as much as I could when I first got it (the wonderful sleep implementation made that quite easy when my main machine was off), but eventually gravitated back to my primary XP machine.
I've wanted to run Mac OS X on something since it first went public, but didn't want another monitor on my desk. When the mini was announced it was the perfect solution and I snapped one up (the low end model but with 512MB RAM) the day it went on sale before the RDF wore off.
I'll still fire it up on occasion, especially if I want to check how they did something in the UI. It's running Tiger now too so there's that to play with. But it is vying with my Vista test box for the secondary inputs on my monitor so the laziness factor has impacted my Mac usage somewhat.
If it weren't for .Net programming, Rhapsody music service, and World of Warcraft (it runs on Macs but my PC is so much better a gaming machine), I could see using it full time.
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