Comments on: Good things will might never come

By: Microsoft Gatineau at Virtual Generations

Microsoft Gatineau at Virtual Generations — Sat, 21 Jul 2007 22:39:14 +0000

[...] some pictures of Microsoft Gatineau (another product where I haven’t heard about for a long [...]

By: Scott

Scott — Sun, 15 Jul 2007 22:47:35 +0000

Yahoo’s messenger is interesting, but who wants an IM client that spins football helmets? Kind of a gimmick if you ask me. As far as I can tell thirteen23 is the only firm pushing design forward with WPF.

By: tino

tino — Sat, 07 Jul 2007 22:43:03 +0000

Oh no, I am wrong, here it is now with a bigger picture: http://www.amazon.com/Microsoft-Wireless-Entertainment-Desktop-Silver/ dp/B000MAFPVW

This is pure pr0n!

By: tino

tino — Sat, 07 Jul 2007 22:39:48 +0000

I have also seen a silver version of the backlit keyboard on Amazon. But they took it down really soon. I’m waiting for this!

By: Wesley McGee

Wesley McGee — Thu, 05 Jul 2007 23:16:17 +0000

I should point this link out to you. Therein, Yahoo is asking what they should do about the Macintosh client which has been in public beta since June 2006, and with no update since then. That is right, it has been in development for at least a year. Yahoo either has some of the worse developers in the industry, or they have the worst case of attention deficit disorder I have witnessed. Since the Mac beta (which they released because they needed something Intel compatible), they promised (but never released) a Vista version built on WPF, and released a buggy Flash-based web client (I guess they never got the "No Flash on the iPhone" memo), all while hoping people would forget about the two promised clients. Yahoo deserves nothing but scorn at this point.

By: Rob

Rob — Tue, 03 Jul 2007 09:36:04 +0000

A Vista Messenger beta “in a few months.” And perhaps a final release a few months later? I’m thinking we won’t see this thing until 2008.

By: CoLD-FiRe

CoLD-FiRe — Tue, 03 Jul 2007 03:26:16 +0000

@Maurice:
“For the gazillionth and one time,
WinFS is NOT NOT NOT and did I mention NOT a file system.”

WinFS involved many different technologies to work. So it was a Data Storage Platform. Not simply a file system. It was a layer that sat on top of NTFS. Yes we all know that.
But I think we get what Long means. Don’t have to be so critical.

@Kevin:
whip out a WPF-enabled Live Local desktop gadget with all that 3D goodness they’ve recently added to the web version.

Do you mean, why they don’t create a Live Local sidebar gadget using WPF?
Well the answer is because they can’t. While there is a hack using an iframe that allows you to insert WPF in a gadget, it doesn’t properly/fully support WPF.

In the next sidebar release we will hopefully have native WPF support in the sidebar.

By: Long Zheng

Long Zheng — Tue, 03 Jul 2007 03:00:21 +0000

@Creamhackered: Yes, but that was pushed back from the original official availability date of February 2007.

The new Microsoft products introduced today will be available for the following estimated retail prices:

Wireless Entertainment Desktop 8000: $249.95 (U.S.), available February 2007

By: mVPstar

mVPstar — Tue, 03 Jul 2007 01:30:20 +0000

Microsoft.com was advertising this today (http://www.microsoft.com/hardware/digitalcommunication/productdetails .aspx?pid=005) .

At least they delivered something.

By: Kevin

Kevin — Mon, 02 Jul 2007 22:55:09 +0000

Ultimate Extras update translation:

“No one is working on any new extras. All the good ideas are already freely available sidebar gadgets. We’re regretting the use of the word Ultimate because most people think it describes the Extras, not the OS. The truth is, we all got high at Jim’s one night and are now trying to figure out what’s going one. We really have no idea.”