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941 days ago
Many people around this time are upgrading computers and such. Most of them I observe are getting cheated easily by the vendors using Microsoft Windows Vista and other latest software releases as the bait. I just thought I could help you all by listing here in short what to look for when you want to purchase a "Windows Vista Ready" computer. Intel Pentium D (Dual core) and Intel Core2Duo are not the same. I had to send back three of my friends to their dealers who had tricked them into buying the "latest dual core processor" Pentium D. Go in for a good processor. Start with the entry-mid range and look for the "big leap" as I call it. A "big leap" occurs when the cost of the next best model in the same item class is significantly more than the current model. Say, by a thousand rupees more. This is when you stop looking for the next best model unless the benefit from the next best model is significantly more. Significantly. Come on, can't ...
942 days ago
I just had to post this again. Expression Studio comes with Visual Studio Standard Edition too. Also, check out this well compiled Expression Studio FAQ. Just wanted to post the system requirements here. A pretty interesting read isn't it? Expression® Studio System Requirements Windows Operating System: Windows® XP Service Pack 2 or Windows Vista™ Processor: 1.0 Ghz with MMX or equivalent Memory: 1 GB RAM Hard Drive: 1.5 GB Graphics processor: Microsoft® DirectX® 9-capable or DirectX 9.0-capable video card with 256 MB or more of memory-for example, ATI Radeon X300 or NVIDIA GeForce™ 5600 class equivalent or better. 1024 x 768 monitor resolution with 24-bit color QuickTime 7.1.3 DVD-ROM drive Macintosh Operating System: Mac OS X version 10.4 Processor: PowerPC or Intel Core Memory: 512MB RAM QuickTime 7.1.3 Monitor set to Millions of Colors Hard Drive: 20 MB DVD-ROM Drive I would say that the 1.0 Ghz processing power and 1 GB RAM ...
942 days ago
This has been a pretty interesting few weeks. Plenty of heavy-weight releases from Microsoft. Longhorn Server Expression Studio Silverlight Expression Blend 2 May Preview Remember? I am lazy. So, unlike in most other blogs, you wouldn't find that those points up there are linked. And, I wouldn't even bother to talk about these things here. Just go on to http://www.live.com/ and search. But, beware. Search is information. Information is power. Power is death. Well, eventually :P
942 days ago
Silverlight. ^_^ WPF/E (codename) is now officially Silverlight. What is Silverlight? To quote from the official website: Microsoft Silverlight is a cross-browser, cross-platform plug-in for delivering the next generation of .NET based media experiences and rich interactive applications for the Web. Since there is already enough talk about this elsewhere. I will limit this post to a simple link pool. BUZZ MIX07 Silverlight DEV Getting started with Silverlight Streaming Creating applications for Silverlight Streaming Silverlight Streaming API reference Oh, and also, the Expression team has some announcements. They've finished compiling Microsoft Expression Studio and Microsoft Expression Blend 2 May Preview is out with support for Silverlight. Also I suggest you get Microsoft Expression Media Encoder downloaded if you are interested in developing Silverlight applications. And, guess what, Microsoft now offers a 4GB FREE space at ...
984 days ago
Experiment and discovery. Probably the two most important words in the english language. Not because of how it is spelt or just how it looks, but because of what they mean. Science. Religion. Existance. Ah, where are you? I am going to start a new experiment from yesterday. Yesterday. Yesterday - We had Academic Developer Conference Build 2007.1 at Chennai, India. This is the first mega-event in India organized entirely by the Microsoft Student Partners with no help from Microsoft besides the venue. We had sessions on XNA Game Studio Express (by Eshaan Anand, MSP), the Windows Presentation Foundation (by this.Author, MSP Lead), Windows Vista versus Windows XP (by Mohamed Reza, ADE, MSFT and Krishnaa G, MSP Lead) and an Introduction to Microsoft Robotics Studio (by Vishnu, MSP). I must say the event went well. We had an almost full audience at Vani Mahal (capacity 800). We've got some photos but knowing myself, I really dont think I can summon enough energy to go look for it and ...
