"It's no secret that WinFS was a great idea without a killer application. Microsoft had to go to great lengths in their demos and evangelism to get people to picture what would be capable with a WinFS application. Microsoft also had problems recruiting for their 'killer app' because those job openings posted on the WinFS blog were actually first posted on the Microsoft website in February and still unfilled in May. iView's Media Pro application is the perfect killer app for WinFS/SQL Server codename 'Katmai'. It relies heavily on a database for it's features."
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Member since:2005-11-21
1. Vista has ultra low latency audio and 24-bit 192 KHz output.
2. MS has cleartype which looks much better on screen than anything Apple has.
3. Quartz Composer? LOL Use Expression Interactive Designer. Core Image is just a layer over HLSL. It's not offering any *new* functionality just making it easier to write for those without openGL skills. Microsoft has DX and it does everything CoreImage does. It's been used to do hardware accelerated image processing for 4 years now... Pinnacle (now Avid) Liquid and Media Player Classic are prime examples.
DX 10 brings GPGPU to the table which lets the GPU process anything and removes all the silly limitations of CoreImage... such as the inability to handle CMYK (in its entirety). They've got DX10 doing physics and particle computations now but you can use it to process any kind of data.
Member since:2006-05-01
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2006-06-28
Now only if MS cud offer something like
1. Ultra-low latency audio, audio device aggregation, native 24-bit 192 KHz and rocking MIDI features
2. Apple Advanced Typography (they should just license it from Apple)
3. Quartz Composer and Core Image
then creative and media pros will shift to MS's platform.
But alas, they've long forgotten other DirectX APIs in favour of Direct3D.