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A picture of a person running Longhorn on a huge screen... [A picture of a person running Longhorn on a huge screen...]

goran — Fri, 15 Oct 2004 17:19:54 GMT

Hi all!

I have seen a picture of a guy running Longhorn on an extremely large (LCD?) display, but I can't find the picture again as I forgot to save it when I first saw it.

Anyone who knows which picture I mean and can point me to the right address?

Thanks in advance.
/G.

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DOM tree, Windows GDI+ and XAML [DOM tree, Windows GDI+ and XAML]

goran — Mon, 27 Sep 2004 15:19:01 GMT

Hi all!

Does anyone know if GDI+ uses some sort of DOM tree in the current Windows versions like Longhorn will use in its Avalon/XAML?

/G.

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Chrome and Avalon [Chrome and Avalon]

goran — Fri, 17 Sep 2004 10:35:57 GMT

As far as I know, Avalon is not the first time that Microsoft has tried to make a hardware rendered user interface. I believe that they had something called Chrome in the late 1990s. I also think that it was more of a plugin to IE so that it would be possible for content developers to develop crisp content for those who had a 350MHz computer with a AGP GPU with, I think, at least 8MB or something ;^).

But I haven't heard anything more of this system... Does anyone here know what happend to it? Did they shut it down? And if so, why? Or have they included the code somewhere else?

Regards,
/G

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vector based user interface [vector based user interface]

goran — Wed, 15 Sep 2004 17:43:45 GMT

I'm wondering something...

Why has it taken MS so long time to implement a vector based UI? Is it because lack of computer speed before? Is it necessary to have a 3D graphics card?

I mean, the NeXT computer used Display PostScript years ago, so it doesn't feel like it's the speed that is missing...?!

Is it because it's such a big thing to change in a OS? But even so, why has it taken so long time?

Does anyone here know?!

Thanks in advance!
/G

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