Windows Presentation Foundation has some serious issues

All is not well in Microsoft's attempt to improve the Windows user experience for Vista, Windows 7 and subsequent releases.
I still don't have Silverlight installed on my home PC (No! It can't be so!) - I need to use it for collaborative work with Microsoft on my computers at the office, but I can't say it enriches my experience as a user.

If I was a .NET developer, dependent on MS for new SDKs and APIs, I'm not sure I'd be too happy to read this, but InfoQ are going around and saying it has some serious problems, the biggest hitter probably being the fact that it memory leaks like a big bucket full of memory with a massive hole in the bottom.

Other members of the blog-o-sphere spotted this issue before, so I'm not sure why it took so long for the InfoQ guys to sniff it out. The point is that they eventually did, and they even identified some major areas where it was leaking.

Read more about the basics of WPF, Microsoft's own WPF library, a site for its fanboys, and the Windows Presentation Foundation SDK.

Brooker enters the forum of Mac OSX vs. Windows Vista...

... With hilarious results:

Recently I sat in a room trying to write something on a Sony Vaio PC laptop which seemed to be running a special slow-motion edition of Windows Vista specifically designed to infuriate human beings as much as possible.

LOL

I don't like Apple products. And the better-designed and more ubiquitous they become, the more I dislike them. I blame the customers.

Amen

Read the full article by Charlie Brooker

DirectX 10 for XP?

This is currently in the alpha stages, and will probably make your XP system unstable, but be my guest ;-)

If someone does make this port stable, then there will be no reason on earth left to upgrade to Vista.

Microsoft in court again

Microsoft are in trouble for setting recommendations for minimum hardware requirements for Vista too low. This resulted in legal action and a demand for internal emails on the subject to be published, read them here.

Upgrade to XP

Excellent article on the smooth upgrade path available from Vista to XP

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Bring on the Vista SP1 hype!

ZDNet's Mary Jo Foley has posted on the upcoming SP1 for Vista. We knew it was coming... has she got anything interesting to say about it?

http://blogs.zdnet.com/microsoft/?p=986&tag=nl.e622

There are already 156 talkbacks (and counting)

The Trouble with Vista

It isn't the features you can see in Vista, or the lack thereof -- it's the priority shift at Microsoft's core


This is an old article by Scott Finnie on Compterworld (since Feb '07)

Windows expert to Redmond: Buh-bye

Scot Finnie says "sayonara" to Windows, but his search for Mac software continues

Why Microsoft must abandon Vista to save itself

http://blogs.cnet.com/8301-13506_1-9785337-17.html


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Dell lead the way (there's a first time for everything, I suppose)

As far as offering XP to PC buying customers goes, in any case.

Read about it here

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Get to know Windows Vista's new bootloader architecture

Another fine article from TechRepublic.

Read it here.