Too Many Cooks In the Kitchen!

The Senior VP in charge of Windows 7 development, has just posted some details on the Microsoft's Windows 7 Engineering blog on what the internal structure looks like for the upcoming OS. It sounds (at least to us) equal parts logistical nightmare and brute force "1000 monkeys at 1000 typewriters", with 25 teams divided up to an average of 40 developers per team. More info via the link below.


Windows 7

One Third of New PCs Downgraded To XP?

"More than one in every three new PCs is downgraded from Windows Vista to Windows XP, either at the factory or by the buyer, said performance and metrics researcher Devil Mountain Software, which operates a community-based testing network. Full article linked below.






Windows XP Article

Computer World Article

According to the article linked below computer manufactures like Dell are giving Windows the boot to increase performance and please customers. The future of computers is all about web access, muti-platform apps and getting things done not dominating the industry with one operating system.




Computer World Article

Punished for Doing 3D on Windows?

Realsoft 3D has been in the 3D software animation business for many years. They started by developing Real 3D version one on the Amiga platform. The current version of this very powerful animation program is 600 Euro for the Windows version. Economically it pays to buy and use one of the other versions. You can save half your money buying the Mac OS X version, even more if you get the Linux version.

Using Windows for 3D can punish the wallet it seems.

Realsoft 3D Pricing Page

NVIDIA Shows Interactive Ray Tracing on GPUs

Breaking news from SIGGRAPH 2008, Interactive real-time ray tracing using NVIDA GPU's. In the graphics world, ray tracing is a technique used to generate an image by tracing the rays or paths of light as they bounce through and around the objects in a scene. When done right, ray tracing can produce photorealistic imagery because shadows are cast correctly, water and other materials show proper reflections with correct coloring, and lighting in general just looks more realistic. The problem with ray tracing is that the algorithms necessary for producing photorealistic imagery are very complex and require much more compute power than is available in today's PCs, if the imagery is to be rendered in real-time, at a high enough frame rate to produce fluid motion, i.e. for gaming. Full news at the link below.

NVIDA SIGGRAPH Demo

Windows Vista, What a Disaster!

When MS shipped Windows Vista in 2007 they thought everyone would just lap it up and make them more billions. Now over 1 1/2 years later people still avoid Vista like the plague. You can only fool customers so long and make them part with their money. Looks like the honeymoon period is over for Windows. Giving customers an expensive operating system that does less then their used to and charging a premium for it won't win you any fans.

The continued failure of Vista in the marketplace gives us confidence that we made the right decision of not focusing on the Windows version of Aladdin 4D. Windows is slowly dying. Don't be sad, it's just business. Roughly Drafted Magazine has more detail information about the nightmare that is Windows Vista at the link below.

RoughlyDrafted Magazine

VmwAROS 85,000 Downloads

A few months ago VmwAROS reached a great milestone, over 85,000 downloads! It's awesome that so many people are learning about and enjoying AROS on VMware virtual machines. Learn more about VmwAROS & VMware solutions from the links below. A wealth of new exciting operating systems are available to everyone if they take the time to explore them.



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