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Re: Dr Sneath: Reflecting on Windows Vista, The Platform

JohnnyDepp — Sat, 28 Apr 2007 12:32:16 GMT

Thanks, was looking for this as well

Re: Dr Sneath: Reflecting on Windows Vista, The Platform

raymond — Sat, 03 Mar 2007 01:36:45 GMT

Tim,

I have been working in both Adobe After Effects and Premiere Pro and this is was the first time I rendered with a Intel Dual Core computer.

What would normally take at least several hours of rendering time took less than five minutes. :P

I thought something went wrong.

You nailed it with your comment on rendering and the benefits of multi-core computers.

Quad vs. Dual Duel: Intel Core 2 Quad vs. Intel Xeon Core 2

Two HP Machines face off with the latest processors on board

http://ibc.broadcastnewsroom.com/articles/viewarticle.jsp?id=83846

[H]

Re: Dr Sneath: Reflecting on Windows Vista, The Platform

Christian Liensberger — Wed, 28 Feb 2007 17:07:18 GMT

Tim Sneath wrote:

littleguru wrote: Anybody having a link to the book Tim is holding in his hand? The one about Vista.

But of course - you can find a softcopy version here:
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=bbc16ebf-4823-4a12-afe1-5b40b2ad3725&DisplayLang=en

Thank you :)

Re: Dr Sneath: Reflecting on Windows Vista, The Platform

Tim Sneath — Wed, 28 Feb 2007 15:55:01 GMT

littleguru wrote:
Anybody having a link to the book Tim is holding in his hand? The one about Vista.

But of course - you can find a softcopy version here:
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=bbc16ebf-4823-4a12-afe1-5b40b2ad3725&DisplayLang=en

Re: Dr Sneath: Reflecting on Windows Vista, The Platform

Bas — Wed, 28 Feb 2007 14:43:51 GMT

Massif wrote:
I remember back then I had a game which was turn based, and you could play via e-mail! VIA E-MAIL! In 1994! Those were the days.

I remember Kung Fu Battlemail which was basically a kung fu tournament where you posted moves via e-mail, and Quest, which was basically a MMORPG when MMORPG's didn't exist yet. You sent in a 'command card' via mail (mail! As in, snail!) and after a week you'd get a buch of papers with results back, showing a map of where your party was, what monsters and towns were near, how battles went, and all that. It was awesome. Later you could send in your moves via e-mail, which was cheaper, but somehow lost some of the charm.

Oh, Play By Mail....

Re: Dr Sneath: Reflecting on Windows Vista, The Platform

Christian Liensberger — Wed, 28 Feb 2007 14:20:03 GMT

Anybody having a link to the book Tim is holding in his hand? The one about Vista.

Re: Dr Sneath: Reflecting on Windows Vista, The Platform

Christian Liensberger — Wed, 28 Feb 2007 13:35:41 GMT

Lucky you. In 1994 I tried to figure out what Hyperterminal is :P and played LEGO + Simon the Sorcerer :D

Great to see Tim switch his position from behind the camera to the front of the camera. I'm defintively going to enjoy this video.

Re: Dr Sneath: Reflecting on Windows Vista, The Platform

Massif — Wed, 28 Feb 2007 10:42:33 GMT

Awww.. my 486DX 33Mhz only had 8mb of ram; and we stuck with 3.1

I remember back then I had a game which was turn based, and you could play via e-mail! VIA E-MAIL! In 1994! Those were the days.

How did you do e-mail on windows 3.1 anyway?

Loving Vista BTW.

Here's a question, why do PCs which are supposed to take better advantage of new technologies tend to perform worse on old technologies?

Re: Dr Sneath: Reflecting on Windows Vista, The Platform

kurtbrockett — Wed, 28 Feb 2007 05:17:10 GMT

Tim, it's good to see you on the other side of the camera. There's been a lot of videos and demos regarding WPF and the like, but for Vista it would be nice to see some of these "shell" layer capabilities highlighted, either in a demo application or by a third party that has used some of these architecture highlights. You could probably do a 30 minute video with a demo application that shows ALL of the archictecture extensibility. This would really help developers out there sell their "vision" of creating a truly Vista exploitive application.