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I read that Intel says that they are not going to adopt SSE5, but I was looking at the SSE5 instructions today and I think that they would be really good for scientific computations (e.g. the Fast Fourier transform, the Generalized Born equation, etcetera). Does anyone think that Intel will change its mind and adopt SSE5 in their future processors like they did for x86-64, which I understand, was with Microsoft's persuation (hint, hint)? Edit: It seems I might get my wish in a slightly different form: http://www.intel.com/pressroom/archive/releases/20080317fact.htm "Intel AVX: The next step in the Intel instruction set --Gelsinger also discussed Intel AVX (Advanced Vector Extensions) which,when used by software programmers, will increase performance infloating point, media, and processor intensive software. AVX can alsoincrease energy efficiency, and is backwards compatible to existingIntel processors. Key features include wider vectors, increasing from128 bit to 256 bit wide, resulting in up to 2x peak FLOPs output.Enhanced data rearrangement, resulting in allowing data to be pulledmore efficiently, and three operand, non-destructive syntax for a rangeof benefits. Intel will make the detailed specification public in earlyApril at the Intel Developer Forum in Shanghai. The instructions willbe implemented in the microarchitecture codenamed "Sandy Bridge" in the2010 timeframe." There are two things that stand out to me there. The first is the 256 bit vectors and the second is the three operand instructions. As long as all of the things AMD is implementing in SSE5 are supported, these will make me very happy. More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

<img alt="" height="1" width="1"> Roll-out begins for Vista Service Pack 1 AccountingWEB.co.uk, UK - 17 minutes ago As the Windows Vista blog explained, the roll-out will be phased, and in a few weeks the voluntary downloads will be supplanted by automatic downloads from ... More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

I keep encountering an error when posting in Firefox 3. Essentially if I switch to the HTML editor (to embed and image, link or delete all the <blockquote> that get left behind when deleting a quote within the* quote) it doesn't switch back properly. I have to press the design button twice. If I press the design button only once I appear to be in a stage half way between the rich text editor and the html editor. It replaces all the HTML tags with their correct formatting - and the text appears as if in rich text but all the formatting options are greyed out - like this: http://img232.imageshack.us/img232/8798/ff3b4c9posterrorfn6.th.png Any changes I make in this mode are not kept when I post the post - hence the number of posts I've made recently (and had to go back and edit) with just a quote and not comment. More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

On this episode of TechNet Radio, We learn more about SQL CAT – the SQL Customer Advisory Team.* With Launch of SQL 2008 on the way, the SQL CAT team has been working hard preparing lists of best practices, recommendations, technical whitepapers and technical end-to-end case studies on customer implementations. Eric Ostrowski - Your Show Host and TechNet Radio Producer Paul Mestemaker – Program Manager, SQL CAT Best Practices Denny Lee - Senior Program Manager, SQL CAT Lubor Kollar - Principal Group Program Manager, SQL CAT Listen to the podcast(MP3) Listen to the podcast(WMA) More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

Apparently it's been ten years in development. More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

http://www.regdeveloper.co.uk/2008/03/25/ajax_patent_auction/ http://ms-os.com/Themes/AlmostGlass/images/icon-quote.gif Patent Asshat wrote: it is claimed that pretty much the whole of the web uses this method to operate AJAX-based applications. Google, Yahoo, Microsoft, Apple and eBay are identified as among those whose products "potentially" infringe on the patent ... The claim centers on the way AJAX uses background processes: "Most significantly, the patent is directed to the core concept fundamental to AJAX: extra data requested from the server may be loaded in the background, through an asynchronous data request channel, thereby ensuring that there is no interference with the display and behavior of the existing page". /The world really is going to hell in a handbasket? More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

<img alt="" height="1" width="1"> April Release for Windows XP SP3 RTM? ADT Magazine - 45 minutes ago The unspecified author of the article also claims to have broken the story about the release of Windows Vista service pack 1 RTM, which was officially ... More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

A financial demo application available at http://www.cookingwithxaml.com/meals/financials/default.html Found this rummaging through Joe Stegman's blog. Please play with this a while and report back whether you found this easy to navigate. I think Silverlight will take off big time in a few years, with the generation that have grown up with mobile phones with similar interfaces. I would hate to be an IT trainer, teaching 50 year old 'Doris' how to use this. I'm not being ageist, but speaking from experience, this is not a pleasant UI to teach..."click on this, then wait till it's finished spinning, then go there. If you want to go to [menu option] then you click that to spin that way" I cannot imagine anything but an upmarket business wanting an application that navigates the way this does. As an Employer, you'd think HUGE training costs because differentiated UI is just that, different, so it takes that much longer to learn. I wish I'd grown up with stuff like this though. Completely envious of anyone under 20. More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

<img alt="" height="1" width="1"> April Release for Windows XP SP3 RTM? ADT Magazine - 13 minutes ago The unspecified author of the article also claims to have broken the story about the release of Windows Vista service pack 1 RTM, which was officially ... More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

<img alt="" height="1" width="1"> Microsoft offers free support for Vista SP1 installs CNET News.com, CA - 26 minutes ago Normally, only Windows Vista users who bought the retail product would be eligible for free support but, for SP1 installation, even users with an ... More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

We are using Visual Source Safe 6.0d. (Please, don't flame me... Not my choice.) I have a .Net 3.5 c# project we're working with, and I want to do a compare, from my copy to the previous copy, but all I get is 'Binary Files Differ'. In VSS it is marked as binary. What can I do? More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

I was reading about how Windows 7 is going to be much more modular and while the idea of more OS functionality down the line excites me; I can't help but feel like I'll wind up paying far more for less. Before Vista was released and they announced pumping out three consumer editions the first thing I said was - "This is a way of increasing the price." I was of course correct.*The difference between Home Premium and Ultimate is all within XP Media Center Edition. So they basically stripped down XP in order to produce Home Premium, instead of adding additional value to Ultimate (except the LOL "Ultimate Extra's" and we all know how THAT turned out). Windows 7's modular design where you pay per feature is going to be exactly the same thing. Microsoft will sell the concept that "They can decrease the price of Windows by providing less" but what they actually mean is "Increase the price to those who want the status quo." * My predictions for Windows 7 are three versions. One which literally can't do some of the stuff Windows 95 could... One which is roughly equal to XP Home Edition, and the last which has all of XP MCE's functionality but you pay 20-40% more for. e.g. XP MCE*= £89 XP MCE rebranded "Vista Ultimate Edition"*= £117 XP MCE rebranded "Widnows 7 Ultimate Edition" with subscription and modules = £152 + £15 (per year) + £30 (one off) That's my guess. So look forward to Windows 7... You'll pay more for less. More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

Who has seen it? Incredible movie! More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

* Yahoo, Google, MySpace form OpenSocial Foundation The goal of the OpenSocial Foundation is to ensure the sustainable and open development of the OpenSocial initiative and related intellectual property. To read more about the proposed foundation, and to get involved, please review the Foundation Proposal. More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

<img alt="" height="1" width="1"> Vista SP1 customers get free support Register, UK - 18 minutes ago By Kelly Fiveash -> More by this author Microsoft has sought to appease frustrated Windows Vista customers by giving away free support to anyone struggling ... More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

http://ms-os.com/ IT PRO <img alt="" height="1" width="1"> Microsoft offers free Vista SP1 support IT PRO, UK - 14 minutes ago The company is offering free support to any Windows Vista SP1 user experiencing problems, according to Microsoft Windows Vista blog postings made over the ... More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

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http://ms-os.com/ Digitaltrends.com <img alt="" height="1" width="1"> Microsoft Offers Free Vista SP1 Support Digitaltrends.com, OR - 19 minutes ago By Christopher Nickson You might have read about the problems some have experienced when downloading Windows Vista Service Pack 1 – blue screens, ... More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

Has anybody actually worked through these? If so, care to share how you got to the end?! I don't know what's more annoying: the complete lack of quality control (again! clearly nobody tried working through them*before they were*posted) or the mindless fanboys who all rushed to post "Great news! Some great tutorials from ScottGu" blog entries without actually trying them. The third tutorial has a whole bunch of errors in it. If you read through all the many comments appended to that tutorial blog*you will at least find fixes to get you through to the end, but this isn't the way a tutorial should work (especially when there's so little else around by way of documentation). The fourth tutorial has comments too - mainly from people complaining that moving styling out into a central file (the subject of that specific tutorial) does nothing other than break the app. One guy has posted a "solution" (the whole of his app.xaml file) which clearly can't work - the compiler gives a very explicit*"Data:DataGrid *is not a valid TargetType" and yet magically*he seems to think it*works for him? I think not! It would be really nice*if just for once Microsoft released something*which lived up to the hype that*their "passionate" advocates blogged endlessly about*WITHOUT*it turning out to be*yet another case of Emporer's New Clothes, really it would!* More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

Hi, Is it possible to iterate through the contents of all active sessions in asp.net? I know a work around would be to add the session contents to an object in application but wondered if it was possible to do something like: foreach(session objSession in Session.Sessions) { ***string strTest=objSession["test"]; } Is this possible? Thanks, Alex More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

<img alt="" height="1" width="1"> Roll-out begins for Vista Service Pack 1 upgrade AccountingWEB.co.uk, UK - 16 minutes ago As the Windows Vista blog explained, the roll-out will be phased, and in a few weeks the voluntary downloads will be supplanted by automatic downloads from ... More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

<img alt="" height="1" width="1"> Windows Vista Service Pack 1 available for download Small Business, Ireland - 17 minutes ago Microsoft released Windows Vista Service Pack 1 (SP1) to Windows Update and Microsoft Download Centre on 19 March. Since 14 February the update had already ... More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

It seems that, as usual, British politics is focusing on the really big issues: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/7306526.stm :p What's everyone got against bendy buses anyway? - I think they're 1337! :p More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

Any good open-source C# Chip8 emulator implementations you guys know of? - Thank you More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

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