Windows 7 has 1 year
One year ago, Windows 7 officially went out to the general public. And the new Microsoft OS would receive a warm welcome.
Today, Microsoft has decided to celebrate the first year of marketing its operating system by taking stock of its first steps.
Over 240 million licenses have been sold, and the product has been widely acclaimed by consumers and professionals.
Other interesting statistics and fun have been published by the publisher of Redmond:
- The menu was opened 14,139,925,439 times
- Aero Snap was once used 150,957,478
- Aero Shake was used 20,555,528 times
- The Jumplist were asked 339,129,958 times
- 12,643 unique applications have been pinned in the taskbar
Source : Microsoft
Two new SDK for Bing Maps
A new test environment and development has been made available to developers for 90 days for free access to APIs Bing Maps.
This good news comes two SDKs interactive, comprehensive and very educational which are also offered by Microsoft "to learn how to utilize the APIs Bing Maps."
For the record, this web-services platform enables the development of localization features for both web applications for mobile or house.
Among the features there are of course the creation of routes, location of the advanced search or proximity search.
But these APIs can also customize the browser, integrate multimedia (videos, images and other multimedia objects to map), or to imagine new uses (see above).
Two SDK (AJAX and Silverlight SDK Interactive Interactive SDK) and five different interfaces are proposed to meet the needs closer to each developer.
MonoDevelop 2.4 is out
The Mono project is an open source clone of. NET framework Microsoft. Its director, Miguel de Icaza has announced the arrival of his MonoDevelop Development Environment 2.4, consistent with Linux, Windows and Mac OS X. Many new features make their entry. Note the arrival of a engine and a new navigation bar and search function autocompletion.
Listed tools, MonoTouch (for developing applications for iPhones) has better support. To be fair, talking about MonoDroid (for developing applications for Android),. Due to its late onset, the tool is still in beta.
The UI has also been reviewed in depth.
Finally, side language, support for Vala has greatly improved. Vala is a programming language compiled. Its syntax is based on that of C # but it requires no runtime environment. Vala is transformed into C code, itself compiled into native machine code.
What can "produce software that requires less memory and run faster. Furthermore, the transition from step C makes it possible to use C libraries with interfaces defined in the files Vapi" (from Wikipedia).
These are just a few innovations from among the long list of improvements to the IDE.
MonoDevelop 2.4 download
Source : developpez.com
MonoDevelop website
Internet Explorer 9 faster than Safari 5?
They say that, sometimes, development teams are likely.
At the launch of Safari 5 (yesterday), Apple did not lose to emphasize that his browser was much faster than its main competitors, namely Chrome and Firefox.
No word, however, Internet Explorer, superbly ignored.
Microsoft responded today with a small video that there is no comparison with four path: Internet Explorer 9 is fast, very fast, very fast. So much faster than Safari 5 bear bad (or no) comparison.
While it is still a bit early to make a real opinion (EI 9 is still in its second preview release), it is clear, however, that Microsoft's browser will make up part of the hardware acceleration (using the GPU and not the CPU) for video and other multimedia content (including Flash).
Note that Safari 5 does not offer this type of technology (hence the test results from Microsoft).
In contrast to the JavaScript (subject not addressed in the video), Safari 5 should continue to hold its own in the game
Anyway, the message is clear. The next time Apple decides to denigrate its competitors, thank you for not forgetting Microsoft.
The video is on this page (requires Silverlight).
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