Bas said:

PaoloM said:

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By all means, take everything extremely literally.

Seriously, it's about being precise when trying to make a point.

One point I agree with though - it'll be a little awkward with Bing Maps et al.

The driving decision here must have been that 1) this is a new search engine and 2) the name needs to be short; you don't say "let me live search that for you" - although it's almost acceptable.

"Microsoft rebrands Hotmail/MSN/Live/.Net/Microsoft Search (Again)"

Can you substantiate this? Sure, they create a special version of Live Search but how do you get from that to a total rebrand of everything?
Dramatic effect?

PaoloM said:

TommyCarlier said:

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Bing == Bing Is Not Google

(thanks, PINE)

Love it

Appropos Google; The name isn't quite maningless, it was supposed to be Googol but they messed it up - but it still bears close association to that number, for obvious reasons. And further, Googleplex bears a close resemblence to Googolplex. The naming mistake is actually not that bad of an idea. Google rolls better off the tongue.

I'm not sure what Bing means and what the marketing people were thinking about but there are probably some meaning there.

Bing it?

It looks like Bing is a search engine with domain-specific support, assisting in specialized queries with actual data, not just indexed sites.

Kumo was supposedly a code-name, so who cares about that one. Although aren't we getting tired of having nice code-names replaced with terribly verbose finalized names; Indigo vs WCF; Avalon vs WPF; rolling off the tongue?

Bing | Cheapest laptop with blablabla | Go

Bingo!

You don't Bing. You bin/go!

OK enough nonsense from me for now

jamie said:

 

 it even has win 7 already installed on it!

this is too much!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Congrats Jamie. That thing looks sweet!

AndyC said:

stevo_ said:

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Screenshots of Cleartype text don't really work, because the result is too dependent upon the display you are using. I have to agree that I don't think the yellow colour is helping though as that seems to be where it suffers most.

Running on a higher DPI screen makes a world of difference however, the text is incredibly crisp at 120dpi. If you've got a high res monitor it's definitely worth cranking it up.

The whole point of font anti-aliasing though, is to compensate for a pixel-density deficit. At some point in time we may not even need ClearType anymore, well fingers crossed.

Bass said:

joechung said:

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Why? TraceMonkey is pretty damn fast as it is. Firefox 3.5 is very Chrome-ish speed wise I've noticed.

Agreed. I rather like the idea of a Javascript arms race.
Having different implementations based on different theories is pure niceness.
And of course - on a DOM arms race as well!

joechung said:

Maybe when C# has XML literals, exception filtering, and the other features VB already has.  They finally got "dynamic" in 4.0, at least, something VB has had for ages.

I think C# doesn't have XML literals for a reason. Now with the M specification community underway it may be even more unwise to commit to one format , even a metaformat, a format that needs to co-evolve with the host-language. Bake it in and you're stuck with it. Terminally.

ManipUni said:

Bass said:

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Is it really viable to change the syntax of the language after it has left the door?

No need to change the de jure representation and no need to limit users (that would be programmers) to just that de jure representation.
Intentional Software looks to be going this way. Microsoft as well.

W3bbo said:

AndyC said:

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VB is unnecessarily verbose and imposes stylistic constraints merely so non-technical people can read VB and think they know what's going on; as opposed to C# which prevents PHBs from getting involved.

I also think VB is bloated and too similar to C#. Bring back VB6-like behaviour!

...no, really. Besides Delphi there is no other way to build a simple GUI application that doesn't require any massive framework to bundle it with on XP.

A couple of thoughts...

Syntax should be paint. Paint your code with whatever syntax you like and bind the syntax to a core, extensible, semantics palette.

Syntax is art. Don't deny programmers the semantic palette due to inherent syntactic bias. This is the new route of C# and VB.NET.

Sever the static bond between syntax and semantics.

And don't let syntactic manifestation limit itself to character literals. Paint syntax in multiple dimensions. And so here we are, with Visual Studio 2010.

MVC applied to code. No need to just see "ones and zeros".

AndyC said:

ZippyV said:

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Doesn't understand high DPI and the zoom functionality resets itself every time you close a tab, making for a rather unpleasant browsing experience. Still lacks RSS capabilites and has the single most confusing "Favorites" implementation I've ever seen. Don't think I'll be using that much.

Well confusing and confusing. It's different and surprising but as with so many other things, it's a habbit and I have found myself adapting to it.
Newsfeeds are not really integral to browsing (although are becomming so) but there ought to be a good extensibility model so such peripheral features could be added by proxy. No idea on Chrome extensibility and plug-in support or non-support. In the extreme it is open-source so it can be modded.