Chris Sells begins his “Longhorn” Solitaire project at the ground floor, exploring the initial decisions developers will make when building new applications targeting Longhorn. Elsewhere, Microsoft Research released the source code of the “Allegiance” 3D game.
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That taskbar at the top reminds me of another companies desktop layout. However this isn’t the case because we all know Microsoft is 10.3 steps ahead of the competiton. All jokes a side, I feel that this new version of solitare will once again revitalize this old card game.
And that’s when I remembered that the “Long” in “Longhorn” stood for how long it’s going to be before it ships
Hehe
A new version of Solitaire! Its about freaking time, Microsoft.
Anyone got any idea what it’s “EULA” terms are? I’d be specially interested to see if they are compatible with any of the Open Source Initiative and Free Software Foundation’s accepted and acceptable licenses.
Goodness knows I’d like to see what they are, but the site’s exceeded its connection limit.
It strikes me that it would also make a good test for the robustness of Wine and/or WineX development libraries.
Wesley Parish
Allegiance kicked ass. That fully 3D game would run acceptably on my Pentium 200 with 15+ players. The source code will probably have A LOT to offer.
How about this <a href=”http://www.despair.com/ambition.html“>
journy’s end.
Its good to see things coming out of MS research for free
Another thing I saw while looking round the site was this Continuous flash concept http://research.microsoft.com/%7Ehoppe/ (a download is available in the Demo section which is v cool).
It would be nice to have a tool like this for personal photos – imagine being able to take a flash picture and a non flash picture, then deciding what the right “balance” was after you’ve pulled them onto your pc from the digicam. Would make a very cool little app.
but microsoft putting the sorce code out?
There is a lot more than just their explination…
They have multiple alterior motives.
the first of which is to show how open source does not work.
the second of which is to kill off any comptition in the courts.
Just wait and see….
nuff said