See Windows Vista

June 8, 2006 on 9:05 pm | In General |

A quick follow-up on my “earlier post”:http://coding.mu/archives/2006/06/08/windows-vista-beta-2-available/. Despite boasting about being a Mac OS X guy to someone who asked me if I had tried Windows Vista Beta 2 myself, I am curious about what is brewing in the Windows world. Although developing applications for Windows is what puts food on our table and pays the mortgage, I have remained relatively detached from the recent developments coming from Microsoft.

Anyway, to see what is coming up in Windows Vista, there is no better place than “See Windows Vista”:http://www.seewindowsvista.com/. Judging from the promotional videos, the features of the new operating system — the back-end features, that is — vastly improve on the ease of developing graphics-heavy applications. Of course, the Microsoft marketing gurus have chosen the juiciest videos, but there is one irrefutable trend: applications are becoming more and more graphical.

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