Fresh up from seven days of beta testing with the folks from Electronic Arts and Ironclad Games, developments on our segment of the industry kept on rolling in for good or for worse. Today, we're going to review what's in store for the average PC gamer - especially the things we don't hope to see unfold. To begin this issue of PC Weekend Warrior , I'll do us a favor and set the mood straight: I'll take on all things good first and then work my way to the bottom basket to get to the rotten of the bunch. Well, it's not exactly rotten. But you're sure to grit your teeth in anger for the purely half-stepped marketing stunt someone's trying to pull just before release - and at the expense of your very good morning mood, as well. A taste of the future? We are the future Top of the bunch is Microsoft's ultimate dream for the next generation operating system: a computing cloud of devices, resources, systems across interconnected networks, and the end users themselves. With a quick slap to take us out of stupor, they introduced Midori - the OS to end "Windows." The guys at Redmond even said that they're willing to go the whole mile: the OS wii ll contain componentialized micro-kernels that you might liken to add-on, independent modules. Big ambition right there, but greater yet is it's entire technology and architecture. Microsoft Research says Midori will completely run off managed code, exactly how the current Singularity OS prototypes h ...
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Fresh up from seven days of beta testing with the folks from Electronic Arts and Ironclad Games, developments on our segment of the industry kept on rolling in for good or for worse. Today, we're going to review what's in store for the average PC gamer - especially the things we don't hope to see unfold. To begin this issue of PC Weekend Warrior , I'll do us a favor and set the mood straight: I'll take on all things good first and then work my way to the bottom basket to get to the rotten of the bunch. Well, it's not exactly rotten. But you're sure to grit your teeth in anger for the purely half-stepped marketing stunt someone's trying to pull just before release - and at the expense of your very good morning mood, as well. A taste of the future? We are the future Top of the bunch is Microsoft's ultimate dream for the next generation operating system: a computing cloud of devices, resources, systems across interconnected networks, and the end users themselves. With a quick slap to take us out of stupor, they introduced Midori - the OS to end "Windows." The guys at Redmond even said that they're willing to go the whole mile: the OS wii ll contain componentialized micro-kernels that you might liken to add-on, independent modules. Big ambition right there, but greater yet is it's entire technology and architecture. Microsoft Research says Midori will completely run off managed code, exactly how the current Singularity OS prototypes h ...