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Xbox 360 Slim outed by Italian ad?
Of the rumored devices we’ve been looking forward to getting official at E3 this year, two of the biggest come from Microsoft — both of which, sadly, seem to have escaped from their bag a little early. First is Kinect, the re-naming of “Project Natal…
HDX versus PC-over-IP
At a recent conference, I said, “The remote protocol no longer matters. Both options [Citrix HDX and VMware PC-over-IP] are good enough.” While I stand behind that statement — both protocols are good enough (with caveats of course) — that doesn’t mean that the remote protocol war is over.
For years, there were only two Windows remoting protocols: Microsoft’s built-in Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) and Citrix’s add-on Independent Computing Architecture (ICA). Lots of others popped up here and there, some standalone and some that enhanced RDP, but really it was RDP or ICA.
Microsoft Pink livestream page offers glimpse of Turtle, Pink name changing at launch
Man, Microsoft is not even trying to be coy with its Pink launch tomorrow — these happy and attractive young people pictured on the livestream page are clearly being delighted by the “Turtle” portrait slider that keeps leaking all over the place. Or maybe they’re just stoked they can use SanDisk microSD cards with it — that’s how the kids react to removable storage nowadays, right?
In other news, Reuters says the phones won’t actually be called Pink, and that they’re likely scheduled to ship this summer, so that’s something, we suppose. Honestly, we just don’t know what Microsoft is going to offer here that’ll be more attractive to teens than Windows Phone 7 — we’re still hoping to be wowed tomorrow, but we’ve got a suspicion we’ll just be confused and sad. Which isn’t a bad way to market something to teens, we suppose. Microsoft Pink: it’s like having bad feelings.
P.S.- If you squint just right, that dude totally looks like a young Bill Gates. He also loves cuddles.
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Microsoft to open source .NET Micro Framework
Microsoft has announced the release of .NET Micro Framework version 4.0 as well as the plan to release the majority of the source code under the Apache 2.0 license.
