Here is the license to the open source
Both are MIT licenses. The C#/VB compilers are released under an Apache license: https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fgithub.com%2Fdotnet%2Frosl...
When I attended a conference on behalf of a large tech company, I was told to be on the lookout for people trying to pitch products or partnerships. These guys will say they are the CEO of some company, describe some obvious improvement for a future version of a product, then sue you for "stealing their idea" years later. The phrase "contacted Facebook" sounds more like "talked to a random employee" than "participated in a business meeting under NDA".
Slide 5 of the deck here says that initializer lists, template aliases, variadic templates, and other features are coming in a series of out of band releases after VC11 RTM (but sooner than the next major release of VC). That slide also lists the stdlib and language features that are included in VC11 Beta/RTM.
The Win8 VS preview is actually one of the "Express" versions (like the existing C# and VB Express versions). In other words, it will be a free download for anybody who wants to build Win8 apps for the Win8 store. You can get the full version of VS 11 here: http://www.microsoft.com/download/en/details.aspx?displaylang=en&id=27543.
The limit is per mailbox. So every employee can send mail to 1500 recipients per day.
In a few weeks we’ll shut down Google Buzz and the Buzz API, and focus instead on Google+. While people obviously won't be able to create new posts after that, they will be able to view their existing content on their Google Profile, and download it using Google Takeout.
Other products, such as the Google Labs website (http://labs.google.com) and Jaiku, will also be on the chopping block. Makes you wonder."
The MS blog post discussing this specifically mentions a requirement that there is no programmatic control of secure boot policies. If it were possible to add certificates while the OS is running, it would be easier for malware to add those certificates themselves.
Windows 8 does not have a different UI on different hardware. Based on the hardware being demoed this week, I think the lines between different kinds of hardware will be too blurry for that kind of distinction. The tablet given out to BUILD attendees has a docking station and supports HDMI output and a keyboard and mouse. You would likely stick to touch-friendly apps while using it as a tablet, but at home/work you could use things like Visual Studio and Photoshop.
Perhaps that used to be the case. After reading your comment I tried paying my bill in Firefox 4 and it worked just fine. FF isn't my usual browser, so I can't say if this is a recent fix on T-Mobile's site.
Yes, I was referring to 64-bit binaries. Pointer alignment was what I was thinking would be the biggest issue for porting typical apps to ARM. I found a couple spots in the compiler documentation that suggest misalignment is already a warning on x86 with a note that it will be an error when compiling for a RISC processor. So hopefully most instances of this would show up as build breaks rather than runtime errors.
I think the IA-64 port of Windows forced any alignment issues in the OS (and SDK) to be addressed.
Office 2010 on ARM was demonstrated during CES in January. Also,
The issue here is that it isn't possible for anybody else to negotiate the same deal Google was going for with this settlement. Google was trying to reach a deal with an entire class, not a specific group of authors. So while a competitor could negotiate a similar deal with specific authors or groups of authors, they would be unable to create a deal with the entire class of authors (unless faced with a class action lawsuit and able to negotiate the same settlement).
It sounds like the judge agreed with this objection and indicated that the deal might work if authors needed to opt-in rather than opt-out. Under an opt-in system, authors could opt-in to a competitor's service as well as Google's. Alternatively, Google could try to get copyright law changed so that their opt-out system would be allowed by law (and competitors could set up similar systems without facing infringement lawsuits).
The approach the IE team has started taking for unstable standards is to release prototypes independently of the main browser. For example, the websockets prototype is here: http://html5labs.interoperabilitybridges.com/prototypes/available-for-download/websockets. My understanding is that there have been breaking changes in the websockets protocol spec fairly recently (to resolve security issues), so shipping an implementation for widespread use isn't a good idea until the spec stabilizes.
The 30% is the cut that Microsoft takes from every app on the WP7 marketplace (same as Apple does with their app store). Employees get the same 70% that third party developers get.
The people I work with had the opposite reaction from what you suggest. The policy removed the uncertainty around moonlighting in this case and encouraged people to start developing apps. I don't think this would have been against policy in any case, but most employees aren't going to spend the time talking to their manager, legal, and HR just to get approval to release a $0.99 app.
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