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Microsoft drops more new codenames, including another ‘Mojave’
Microsoft used this week’s Professional Developers Conference to flesh out a bunch of codenames that had been circulating for the past several months — everything from “Red Dog,” to “Geneva,” to “Zurich.” At the Los Angeles confab, the company also introduced a few brand-new codenames.
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What’s new for you in Windows 7: Extended Linguistic Services
Extended Linguistic Services (ELS) is a new feature in Windows 7 that allows developers to use the same small set of APIs to leverage a variety of advanced linguistic functionality. By using ELS APIs in Windows 7, developers can auto-detect the language of any piece of Unicode text and use that information to help make [...]
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How many Windows 7s will there be?
The internet has been awash with rumours about Windows 7, with a pre-beta release being handed out to attendees at the Professional Developers Conference in the US this week. But how many Windows 7 versions will there be?
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While screenshots are available displaying some of the features of Windows 7, for me questions remain about two [...] -
Toolkit for asynchronous programming emerges from robotics
You might think that a real-world implementation of something that emerged from a project at the Robotics division of Microsoft Research would have something to do with, perhaps, just maybe, a robot. But one of the big surprises at this year’s PDC was the emergence of a runtime toolkit for enterprise software developers that ostensibly [...]
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What’s new for audio in Windows 7?
Microsoft took the wraps off the next version of Windows Tuesday at its Professional Developers Conference, and the Web’s abuzz with first impressions and previews–most of which are positive.
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It looks like Microsoft is making the right moves to counter some of the problems with Vista: application and hardware compatibility are top priorities, and most of [...] -
Mac OS X Snow Leopard vs. Windows 7
Microsoft Tuesday revealed Windows 7 at its annual Professional Developers Conference (PDC) in Los Angeles. Windows 7 is designed to replace Windows Vista as the main operating system for Windows-based PC users.<br><br>
With Apple’s OS X Snow Leopard also under development, we met up with Ian Moulster, Windows Live commercial lead for Microsoft, to talk through [...] -
What’s New With Windows Media Center in Windows 7
In Windows 7, Windows Media Center is getting a makeover. Nothing too radical is changing, and that’s good, because WMC is a pretty solid program already. Some of the biggest changes involve the back-end and how content is moved across the network. The new code reflects this shift towards more seamless interconnectivity between our devices [...]
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Windows Server 2008 R2 Preview
Paul Thurrott: At the Professional Developers Conference (PDC) 2008 on Monday, October 27, 2008, Microsoft will introduce to the world the next version of Windows Server, called Windows Server 2008 R2. As its name suggests, Windows Server 2008 R2 is the "release two" version of its predecessor and is thus a minor release in the [...]