Anith Gopal

Light up your Silverlight Apps for Windows 7 Windows 7 and Silverlight make for a fantastic platform to build and deploy applications. Together, you have the power to build smart, visually stunning applications that truly light up. Want to learn how to take advantage of your desktop OS using Silverlight

プロトタイプは Surface やタブレットベースで作られているようですが、ペンとタッチの組み合わせによってどういったユーザーエクスペリエンスを実現できるのか、を研究しています。 こちらはさらにタブレットも合わせてデモを拡張されています。 そういえばTabletはWindows7のようですが、もしかしたらSurfaceももうWindows7バージョンになっているのかな（初代SurfaceはWindows Vistaでした） ちなみに、Surfaceはマイクロソフトの大手町テクノロジーセンターにおいてあります。大手町で打ち合わせをすると遊べるかもしれませんね。

So you just got yourself a new laptop. Congratulations! Did you notice that it has an Ambient Light Sensor (ALS)?

Windows Server 2008 R2 represents the latest evolution of the Windows Server operating system and corresponding support for high-end hardware systems with large numbers of microprocessors.  The 64-bit versions of Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 support more than 64 Logical Processors (LP) on a single computer. Microsoft has tested R2 with 256 processor systems; the largest systems available at present.  New commodity computer systems will soon appear that leverage NUMA architectures.  A system with 4 CPU sockets, 8 processor-cores per socket and with Simultaneous Multi-Threading (SMT) enabled per core, will readily achieve 64 Logical Processors.   R2 features enhanced support of Non-Uniform Memory Access (NUMA) computer architectures along with new User-Mode Thread Scheduling (UMS) technology.    UMS enables custom thread-level scheduling within your own application.   For certain categories of computing scenarios, this avoids the overhead of kernel transitions and context switching.  New API’s are available for both NUMA and UMS technologies.   Many high-end multi-core server-class software solutions may now be developed with NUMA and/or UMS integration in order to achieve linear performance scaling.  Parallel Computing and High Performance Computing solution developers may find NUMA awareness essential for performance scalability.

The Windows 7 Training Kit for Developers based on the RTM version of Windows has been released. It includes presentations, hands-on labs, and demos designed to help you learn how to build applications that are compatible with and shine on Windows 7

Windows7  RTM과 더불어 개발자들을 위한 Windows7 세미나가 총 6회 기획되어서 제공됩니다.

Computers and vision – what’s up with that? Things we do with our eyes without out a seconds thought are difficult for computers

Windows 7 is on it’s way. Windows 7 will be generally available (GA) on October 22.

Windows7과 관련된 활동을 할 Transfer Windows7 활동을 함께 할 팀이 구성되었다는 소식을 알려드렸었습니다.( http://blogs.msdn.com/winkey7/archive/2009/07/12/windows7-transfer-windows7.aspx ) 오늘은 구성원 개개인에 대한 소개를 드릴까 합니다. 현재 Transfer Windows7에 참여하고 있는 멤버들은 자기 분야에서 나름 데로 다들 전문가로 인정 받고 계신 분들로 구성되어 있습니다

Trigger-Started Services are new with Windows Server 2008 R2 and Windows 7.   Before, services were typically started at system boot time and ran until system shutdown.   Now, services can specify start and stop conditions (triggers). Common usage scenarios include: Device class arrival and removal Example: “Bthserv” starting on bluetooth device class arrival IP address arrival and removel Example: “Lmhosts” start on first and stop on last IP address availability Firewall port event Example: “Browser” open of NS and DGM ports Domain join and unjoin Example: “W32Time” start on join, stop on unjoin Custom ETW event Example:  “AppID” start when SRP enabled Trigger meta-data is stored in the service registry key.   You can use the “sc qtriggerinfo” command to view service triggers

As the name implies it, Trigger-Start Services are not constantly running on the system but rather start when a specific event in the system triggers the service to start and/or respond. The events that can be triggered can be any of the following: · Device interface arrival : By subscribing to this trigger, any service can take action to, for example, starting the scanner service when a scanner-capable printer is connected to the machine. · Domain join or leave : In Enterprise scenarios, this trigger will fire off when the machine is joins or leaves a domain

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