May 05
Microsoft has just released the Windows Software Development Kit (SDK) for Windows 7 and .NET Framework 3.5 Service Pack 1 (SP1): Release Candidate (RC).
The Microsoft Windows SDK is a set of tools, code samples, documentation, compilers, headers, and libraries that developers can use to create applications that run on Microsoft Windows operating systems. The Windows SDK combines two formerly separate SDKs: the Platform SDK (PSDK) and the .NET Framework SDK.
The following is a small sampling of what’s new or updated in this SDK:
- Documentation – Approximately 80% of the SDK documentation set has been refreshed
- Headers/Libraries – numerous new and updated – please see What’s New in the Windows API under the top-level Getting Started section in the documentation
- Samples – Over 200 new and/or updated samples
- Tools – Several new tools added
- Visual Studio 2008 SP1 C++ command line compiler toolset and matching CRT
Windows SDK
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Feb 26
Microsoft may ship Windows 7 on PCs by September, said Compal president Ray Chen at an investor’s conference. Compal builds personal computers for Acer, HP and other major PC vendors. The news matches rumors that Microsoft hopes to release Windows 7 well ahead of the holidays. This would give Microsoft some time to hopefully iron out some of the initial bugs and avoid the major embarrassment it saw with people downgrading back to XP because Vista simply wouldn’t work.
Microsoft spokeswoman Amelia Agrawal maintains the company’s official position that Windows 7 will ship within three years of Vista, which means by early 2010. This estimate is presumably conservative to avoid embarrassment in the event of an unexpected delay, as happened repeatedly with Vista, which shipped more than two years after its original scheduled date. Microsoft has acknowledged an expedited testing phase for Windows 7 that includes just one public beta and one release candidate before shipping. But so far Windows 7 has been relatively stable in testing.
Microsoft is under significant pressure to release Windows 7 this year to offset the first significant declines in Windows revenue in Microsoft’s history. These declines are the result of the global recession, plus continued reluctance by both consumers and enterprises to adopt Windows Vista. Windows 7 is said to improve the user interface and performance, especially on hardware with more modest specifications.
Oct 09
From xkcd: A webcomic of romance, sarcasm, math and language.
Very funny! But in my experience, one of the fastest ways to kill programmer productivity is to give them beer.
Jul 22
If you’re one of thousands of Simpsons fans who added ChunkyLover53 as an AOL Instant Messenger buddy, your computer may be at risk from a Turkish botnet.
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Mar 03
Apple’s share of the U.S. PC market jumped to 8.1% in the third quarter of 2007, a 37% increase from the previous year. One reason for Apple’s surging success is its catchy “Hello, I’m a Mac” commercials starring Justin Long as “Mac” and John Hodgman as “PC”:
As you might expect, these successful Mac vs. PC commercials have spawned a legion of spin-offs and parodies.
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Feb 09
When buying a new PC, should you spend the extra cash to upgrade your RAM? Here’s a rule-of-thumb for how much memory you need to run Windows Vista:
Windows Vista RAM
- 2 GB is minimum
- 3 GB if you can afford it
- 4 GB is mostly wasted (on 32-bit Vista)
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Tags: RAM, Vista, Windows
