Linked by Thom Holwerda on Wed 28th May 2008 19:09 UTC
Yesterday, during the opening hours of the D6 conference, Walt Mossberg and Kara Swisher jointly interviewed Steve Ballmer and Bill Gates. While the interview dealt mostly with the past, Yahoo, and a bit of Vista, by far the most interesting part was the first ever public appearance of Vista's successor: Windows 7. Earlier today, the team behind D6 posted a video of the demonstration, which was conducted by Microsoft's Julie Larson-Green. From a graphical user interface point of view, there were some interesting things in there.
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It all depends upon the network's characteristics. X performance on a LAN is quite good. A bit of light compression might help there, but it's debatable whether it would help or hurt. X is, however, a very "chatty" protocol. The serialized round trips are excessive. (Run X over a ppp connection and watch the modem lights.) Latency kills. Even just 10 or 20 ms. The neat thing about NX is that it *is* X, and not one of those framebuffer transmission kludges like VNC. Fast as lightning... and still X. One day, it will be an official extension of X and I can't wait.
Edited 2008-05-29 18:38 UTC