Archive for the 'Developer' Category
NVIDIA Releases DX10 Drivers for Windows Vista & Provides SDK
Saturday, March 3rd, 2007NVIDIA Corporation released the WHQL-certified drivers for Microsoft DirectX 10, coinciding with the release of the first DirectX 10 test kit from Microsoft, which allows other hardware vendors to test their graphics processors using the DirectX 10 WHQL tests. Microsoft DirectX 10 is included with Windows Vista and delivers unparalleled levels of graphics realism and [...]
Microsoft Vista Had Major Mac Envy, Company E-Mails
Wednesday, January 31st, 2007Internal Microsoft e-mail messages from 2004 reveal that company evangelists and executives were awed by Apple’s just-added desktop search and acknowledged that what they did in Windows Vista would be directly compared with Mac OS X. The messages, which were filed as evidence in an Iowa state court trying a Microsoft antitrust case, were between [...]
Windows Vista: Bluetooth
Monday, January 29th, 2007After the nightmare of Windows XP adopting Bluetooth networking, Microsoft has stepped up and made some significant changes to their previously terrible software. Windows Vista has become one of the key topics of discussion for many people in the past few months, but one area that has received very little attention is the new Bluetooth [...]
Inside the Windows Vista Kernel: Part 1
Tuesday, January 23rd, 2007This is the first part of a series on what’s new in the Windows Vista kernel. In this issue, I’ll look at changes in the areas of processes and threads, and in I/O. Future installments will cover memory management, startup and shutdown, reliability and recovery, and security. The scope of this article comprises changes to [...]
Inside the Windows Vista Kernel: Part 1
Sunday, January 21st, 2007This is the first part of a series on what’s new in the Windows Vista kernel. In this issue, I’ll look at changes in the areas of processes and threads, and in I/O. Future installments will cover memory management, startup and shutdown, reliability and recovery, and security. The scope of this article comprises changes to [...]
Developing Gadgets for the Windows Sidebar
Monday, January 8th, 2007Windows Vista introduced the Sidebar – an anchored panel on the Windows desktop that can host mini-applications known as gadgets. These gadgets are fun to develop and can deliver real value to a user’s desktop. Windows Vista ships with gadgets that can track stock prices, display news feeds, and deliver weather forecasts. The gadgets users [...]
Microsoft releases Vista-tied .NET framework 3.0
Friday, November 10th, 2006At its VSConnections conference this week, Microsoft Corp is taking the wraps off the next version of the .NET framework, version 3.0, which is being released to developers through MSDN this week.
But the release is kind of anticlimactic because it doesn’t really add new features to the core .NET framework itself. Instead, .NET 3.0 represents [...]
A Day in the Life of a Vista Developer
Tuesday, October 24th, 2006Things are Looking Grim for the Windows Development Team? With the immense success of the Xbox, I can’t help but wonder if the Vista team feels a lot like the old 1980s developers at Apple when everyone was raving about their new "Macintosh" line of computers. Alone, left behind and maybe even outdated.
Think about it, [...]
Microsoft Releases WinFX as .NET 3.0
Wednesday, September 6th, 2006Since last January, Microsoft has used the term "on track" to describe how it delays its release dates for Windows Vista, most notably last March. But today’s news from Microsoft that Vista RC1, announced last Friday, will be opened up to as many as five million participants for testing, included no mention of the now-infamous [...]
Windows Vista and the Future of Hardware
Wednesday, August 9th, 2006Whether you ever plan on upgrading to Windows Vista or not, one thing is clear: Its impact on the world of PC hardware will be huge. We’ve written about how to build a Windows Vista system. This time we’re not talking about building a Vista system today, but rather, about what new types of hardware [...]
