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TechnoratiThis is a pretty bold statement from Microsoft’s Peter Watson. He claims that other operating system developers should learn from Vista’s UAC component and provide something similar. Hasn’t UNIX had the su command (and later sudo) for a long while? Hell, even Mac OS X and Linux distros like Ubuntu wrapped it [...]
Entries Tagged as 'Vista'
sudo and uac both contain a ‘u’; coincidence?
May 1st, 2007 · No Comments
Tags: UAC · Vista · Windows · sudo
coding the painful way for all to hear
February 22nd, 2007 · 1 Comment
Last summer, I posted about a cool open-source project from the National Research Council of Canada, known as Voice Code, that allows developers to code by talking. From the demos that I’ve watched, VoiceCode performs very well, and shows promise. However, Windows Vista includes speech recognition functionality, and doesn’t appear to be on [...]
Tags: Programming · Vista · VoiceCode · speech recognition
vista blahs
January 30th, 2007 · 6 Comments
Windows Vista was released at midnight today. Woohoo?
I played with Vista while it was in beta. I liked it and thought that Microsoft added a few nifty things. However, I was bummed that WinFS was dropped from the feature list. A few other planned features were canned as well so [...]