| As much as i like Linux with it flexible (modification) capabilty, and
secure kernel (as many said), MAC attractive look with great graphic
functionality and Sony awsome game console - the PS, Google innovative
technologies, i dont want them to be so successful . The reason for such claim is that they are all Microsoft competitors  .
No, MS didn't brainwash me, but it the place where i'll work (at least
for a couple year) after my graduation and also the corporation which i
have a certain amount of stock. I dont want to lose profit nor get laid off..LOL
So this blog is dedicate to my future employer (MS) (SORRY FIRST FOR MY BIAS OPINION):
PS3 is delayed till Late 2007??? (sweet-ness  )
Yesterday, reported that the
BBC believed that the PS3 wouldn’t be launching until late 2007.
“former GameStop employee” that may shed new light on the subject. He asked to remain anonymous,
but here’s what he had to say:
I worked for GameStop over the summer, and this came up during the Madden 2005 [2006?] Release a few
months back, and “confirmed” by our District Manager, I’m not entirely sure how true it is, but if you do some
research on it, here’s what you’d be looking for:
The PS3 is delayed until 2007, the decision for this came about through the failure of the initial hardware the PS3
Development Team created. Apparently, 300 PS3 Units were created and sent to various software developers to begin
creating games for the new system. However, design flaws in the PS3 (Specifically, not enough coolant) caused the
systems to overheat and meltdown after moderate
use by the developers.
According to my DM (District Manager), Sony went and fired the entirety of the PS3 Development Team for this flaw. In
short, from what I’ve heard, if Sony gained anything from this experience, it’s minor technical knowledge on what the
PS3 can handle, but for the most part they were sent to square one.
If this the case MS will win its battle
Bill Gate Throw 250 Millions at Malaria
Bill Gates is going after bugs in a big way--but not the computer kind. Today, the billionaire co-founder of Microsoft
and his wife, Melinda, announced that their philanthropic foundation is
giving $258.3 million to researchers to help fight the parasites that
cause malaria. It is the single biggest donation from a charitable
organization to fight malaria ever given.
"Deaths from malaria have doubled over the
last 20 years," Gates said during a teleconference call. "It's a
tragedy that the world has done so little to stop this disease that
kills 2,000 African children every day," Gates said.
Forty percent, or $107.6 million, of the new
funding will go to support clinical trials of a prototype vaccine aimed
at protecting children against severe malaria, which is under
development at GlaxoSmithKline's
(nyse:
GSK -
news
-
people
) GSK Biologicals unit, in Rixensart, Belgium. The Bill &
Melinda Gates Foundation has earmarked another $100 million for efforts
to speed development of drug treatments for patients already suffering
from malaria. And $50.7 million will go to develop insecticides and
other techniques for controlling mosquitoes.... Read more
MS- XPS format to deafeat PDF
Office “12” will support a native Save as XPS feature in Word, Excel,
PowerPoint, Access, Publisher, Visio, OneNote and InfoPath. This, of
course, raises a whole bunch of additional questions for me to answer:
- What’s XPS?
- Why would I want to use XPS?
- Isn’t Windows already doing this?
- How does this relate to the Save as PDF feature?
- How do I view an XPS document?
I’ll take these in order, but first, a picture (from a current build of Word):
What is XPS?
XPS,
or the XML Paper Specification, is Microsoft’s new electronic paper
format for exchanging documents in their final forms. This Office
feature provides a one-way export from Office client applications to an
application- and platform-independent, paginated format. More
information on XPS is available on Andy Simonds’ blog and at http://www.microsoft.com/whdc/xps/.
Unlike
the Office Open XML Formats, XPS does not attempt to capture the full
structured richness of an Office document. As an electronic paper
format, it is all about a high fidelity representation of the output
only. Because of this, creation of an XPS document from Office is a
one-way, export operation.
Why ?
XPS
is an electronic paper format built around the same Open Packaging
Conventions document structure as the new Office file formats. This
means a Zip container and XML content. (Brian Jones
writes lots on Office’s use of the Open Packaging Conventions.) As such
it plays well with other technologies like Microsoft Information Rights
Management (IRM) and is open to developers
to read and write, using APIs in the Windows Presentation Foundation or
any other tools capable of working with XML and Zip. This openness
makes XPS convenient for a range of scenarios in which it is useful to
inspect or modify the contents of the “paper” programmatically.
How does this relate to the XPS print driver?
The
Windows Digital Documents team is delivering a print driver with
Windows Presentation Foundation that will enable all applications that
can print to create XPS files. The support for XPS output in Office
“12” goes beyond what is typically passed to a printer, including the
supporting information to enable, for example, working hyperlinks,
searching, efficient representation of transparency and gradients,
accessible documents, and document rights when the source document has
restricted IRM rights.
So Office is supporting two electronic paper output formats?
Yes. We think choice is a good thing.
How do I view an XPS document?
With an XPS Viewer, of course. You likely don’t have one of these yet, (unless you have the Windows Presentation Foundation September CTP)
but Microsoft is committed to delivering viewers for Windows Vista and
downlevel versions of Windows, with Windows Presentation Foundation,
and directly or through partners, for a range of other platforms. Of
course, if you don’t like any of these viewers, the format is open and
documented and you could always write your own.
*Source : here *
i
have to say that personally i think XPS is way better than the current
PDF format. Faster loaded, awsome zoom capabiliy since it's vector
drawing, and much smaller in size. I tested it out during my 3 month
internship at Microsoft.
More to come....
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