Zune's ba-ack!
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Hey guys, and by guys, I mean those of us who program for a living, we're about to get a new "platform." (Along with win-mo, desktop, web, and x-box) Zune HD has been announced[^] and while it's a little vaporous at the moment, it sounds like Zune is no longer an appliance but something that we may see showing up in VS 2010 at least as an add-on.
Jon Smith & Wesson: The original point and click interface Both democrats and republicans are playing for the same team and it's not us. - Chris Austin
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Hey guys, and by guys, I mean those of us who program for a living, we're about to get a new "platform." (Along with win-mo, desktop, web, and x-box) Zune HD has been announced[^] and while it's a little vaporous at the moment, it sounds like Zune is no longer an appliance but something that we may see showing up in VS 2010 at least as an add-on.
Jon Smith & Wesson: The original point and click interface Both democrats and republicans are playing for the same team and it's not us. - Chris Austin
From the article:
The decision positions the device quite obviously against Apple's iPod touch, though Seitz makes it clear Microsoft is "not trying to play copycat."
Multi-touch with gestures Web Browser No Flash WiFi Video output to TV App Store ...sounds like a copycat to me. :laugh:
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Hey guys, and by guys, I mean those of us who program for a living, we're about to get a new "platform." (Along with win-mo, desktop, web, and x-box) Zune HD has been announced[^] and while it's a little vaporous at the moment, it sounds like Zune is no longer an appliance but something that we may see showing up in VS 2010 at least as an add-on.
Jon Smith & Wesson: The original point and click interface Both democrats and republicans are playing for the same team and it's not us. - Chris Austin
Yeah!?? I'd think it pretty cool if they could port DX since OpenGL is driving me ape shit these days.
Sovereign ingredient for a happy marriage: Pay cash or do without. Interest charges not only eat up a household budget; awareness of debt eats up domestic felicity. --Lazarus Long Avoid the crowd. Do your own thinking independently. Be the chess player, not the chess piece. --Ralph Charell
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Yeah!?? I'd think it pretty cool if they could port DX since OpenGL is driving me ape shit these days.
Sovereign ingredient for a happy marriage: Pay cash or do without. Interest charges not only eat up a household budget; awareness of debt eats up domestic felicity. --Lazarus Long Avoid the crowd. Do your own thinking independently. Be the chess player, not the chess piece. --Ralph Charell
Isn't OpenGL dead? I thought they stopped working on that years ago.
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Isn't OpenGL dead? I thought they stopped working on that years ago.
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Isn't OpenGL dead? I thought they stopped working on that years ago.
Nope it's alive and kicking and looks to have a pretty decent future if they get off the pot and dump all of the legacy crap that has been dragging it down for so long. There was a recent heated controversy over the latest major release. The oversight body had committed to all of the major game developers and vendors (NVIDIA and ATI) to deprecate the old cruft and implement modern features that they have been begging for. However they failed to do so. Needless to say, a lot of people were very pissed since nobody likes relying on a single vendor (MS & DX) and many had publicly committed to deploy cross platform games based on the commitments given to them. The best take I have seen on it is this[^].
Sovereign ingredient for a happy marriage: Pay cash or do without. Interest charges not only eat up a household budget; awareness of debt eats up domestic felicity. --Lazarus Long Avoid the crowd. Do your own thinking independently. Be the chess player, not the chess piece. --Ralph Charell
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It can't be that dead. My coursework project is writing a game (breakout) using the GLUT library. And why would a school use something obsolete?
It's alive. It is available on the PS3, iPod Touch/iPhone, and tons of other devices. Right now, it is suffering from it's age and in need of a good house cleaning.
Sovereign ingredient for a happy marriage: Pay cash or do without. Interest charges not only eat up a household budget; awareness of debt eats up domestic felicity. --Lazarus Long Avoid the crowd. Do your own thinking independently. Be the chess player, not the chess piece. --Ralph Charell
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Hey guys, and by guys, I mean those of us who program for a living, we're about to get a new "platform." (Along with win-mo, desktop, web, and x-box) Zune HD has been announced[^] and while it's a little vaporous at the moment, it sounds like Zune is no longer an appliance but something that we may see showing up in VS 2010 at least as an add-on.
Jon Smith & Wesson: The original point and click interface Both democrats and republicans are playing for the same team and it's not us. - Chris Austin
Wow, this is great news for both of the guys who have zunes! A couple great quotes from the article:
Microsoft tells us it is a "version of IE 6 that has been highly customized and optimized"
Seitz told us it would be a "cool browser for the finger."I've been giving IE the finger for years and it hasn't helped.
In a utopian future, the prospect of buying a TV episode through the 360, then watching it on a PC, Zune HD, or WinMo cellphone is powerful.
I'd never describe the iTunes Store as 'utopian' and anyway, it's already here. Being serious for a moment, this is obviously a copy of the iPod Touch. I've often thought about the difference between Apple and Microsoft and I think it's focus. Apple is a consumer electronics and software company. Apple was never good at selling their hardware and software to businesses. XServe, for example, isn't very popular. They are good at figuring out what consumers want, then designing an integrated hardware platform and operating system to serve the user's needs. (ie: iPhone, Apple TV) Even their original business (before iPod) was an integrated hardware and software platform. The key to their design strategy is not the hardware or even the software, but how people are using it. Microsoft is primarily a software services platform vendor. They build software service platforms (Windows, .NET framework, Office, IIS, Exchange, SQL Server, DirectX, Windows Mobile, etc) for OEMs, ISVs, and in-house development. Typically, rather than selling products to consumers directly, Microsoft builds a platform such Windows, or PlaysForSure and sells that to OEMs (Dell, Sony, Toshiba, local computer shops, etc) who build the hardware and integrate it with the software and then sell it on to consumers. The problem is that the OEMs don't always do a good job of integrating the hardware and software, or OEMs will install crapware in Windows before selling machines. The out-of-the-box user experience can't compete with the integrated solution from Apple, so Microsoft is trying to build their own integrated hardware ecosystem. They've sold a lot of XBoxes, but they've also had issues like the red ring of death. The key to the Microsoft design strategy is building a powerful platform of interdependent software service tools. They aren't great at integrating hardware though, and what they really need is at least one hardware OEM that can integrate consumer hardware and software the way Apple does.