Microsoft Codename MAX

PeterGar

Hmmm... looks like MS is working on taking over yet another aspect of our digital world... this time it's photo related.

http://www.microsoft.com/max/index.html

W.W. Webster

PeterGar wrote:

Hmmm... looks like MS is working on taking over yet another aspect of our digital world... this time it's photo related.
http://www.microsoft.com/max/index.html

I see the developers feel obliged to say that they are 'not robots'! These MS guys sure have a (well deserved) inferiority complex.

Andy

recommended: "beverage and snack, installation may take a while"
hmmm this seems to be a barrier, to me.

one of the things i love about smugmug is that it requires *nothing* but a browser on the viewer's side...

photodoug

andy wrote:

hmmm this seems to be a barrier, to me.

one of the things i love about smugmug is that it requires *nothing* but a browser on the viewer's side...

well, not "a browser", but Microsoft's browser...let's hear it for Firefox!

Andy

photodoug wrote:

well, not "a browser", but Microsoft's browser...let's hear it for Firefox!

truthfully, i don't mind i.e. as a user - i know that web guys have issues with it.

luke_church

andy wrote:

hmmm this seems to be a barrier, to me.

Andy,

Looking at the website, it seems to be more of a showcase for WinFX than actually a product people are currently intended to use.

The download payload is not the product itself but the framework library (WinFX) that it depends on.

Windows Longhorn/Vista machines will have this as their core graphics libraries, along with .NET, which you might also have to download. So we can confidently expect the download payload to be *much* less...

It also seems to be a demo of the 'Live updating' block that the MS architects are keen on.

So I don't think that we should rush too soon to judge this. It's a beta product, running on a framework that is still in beta and perhaps demos a number of cool technologies.

one of the things i love about smugmug is that it requires *nothing* but a browser on the viewer's side...

Sure, thin clients rocks, but there are some things they can't do. Perhaps Max is aimed at some of those.... We shall but see... I wouldn't see it as a threat to Smugmug.

Just by 2 nano-cents,

Luke

luke_church

W.W. Webster wrote:

I see the developers feel obliged to say that they are 'not robots'! These MS guys sure have a (well deserved) inferiority complex.

Hi Webster,

I don't usually get involved in technology slagging matches, my life is too short. However I feel this is a little harsh. MS employs some extremly smart people.

E.g. Off the top of my head:

Tony Hoare - Inventor of Quicksort, MSR Cambridge

Simon Peyton Jones - Key designer of Haskell, MSR Cambridge

Don Box - Somewhat significant author, MS lead architect

Anders Heisberg - Probably one of the best OO language architects around at the moment, designed much of Delphi, now works on C#


Sure, some of their products may have issues, but I would be hesitant to say that some of the world's best computer scientists/engineers should have an inferiority complex.

All the best, :

Luke

Sam

luke_church wrote:

Hi Webster,

I don't usually get involved in technology slagging matches, my life is too short. However I feel this is a little harsh. MS employs some extremly smart people.

E.g. Off the top of my head:

Tony Hoare - Inventor of Quicksort, MSR Cambridge

Simon Peyton Jones - Key designer of Haskell, MSR Cambridge

Don Box - Somewhat significant author, MS lead architect

Anders Heisberg - Probably one of the best OO language architects around at the moment, designed much of Delphi, now works on C#


Sure, some of their products may have issues, but I would be hesitant to say that some of the world's best computer scientists/engineers should have an inferiority complex.

All the best, :

Luke

Hi Webster,


Luke,

Come on guy.............

You claim Tony invented quick snorting. People have been doing that for well over 4000 years.

Simon designed hassle……………I can personally tell you my ex wife designed and perfected hassle, not Simon.

So what if Don wrote a book on buildings?

Anders speaks OO. Big deal. You can find any number of people in any metropolitan city corner that speaks 00. If fact most politicians define zero.

Oh and the last “Sure, some of their products may have issues”.

I’m real glad they ain’t making parachutes or guns.

Do they work for Acme?

And your trying to stick up for these MS persons your gona hafta do better than this.



Sam :

gluwater

andy wrote:

truthfully, i don't mind i.e. as a user - i know that web guys have issues with it.

IE is fine if you're on a mac but for us PC guys FireFox is a godsend. It does what all the ad stopping software in the world could not do for me. It stops all the garbage before it is on your system. Yes it has some drawbacks but overall I have never used a better browser. Just my humble opinion.

W.W. Webster

luke_church wrote:

Hi Webster,
I don't usually get involved in technology slagging matches, my life is too short. However I feel this is a little harsh. MS employs some extremly (sic) smart people .....

No offence or aspersions were intended! Where I come from, this is considered as merely 'taking the piss'. In the context of this forum as taking a 'wide angle', I just thought the comment was a little telling, but I'll be more circumspect if others take umbrage.

Mike Lane

andy wrote:

truthfully, i don't mind i.e. as a user - i know that web guys have issues with it.

YEEEAAAAARRRRRGGGHHHH!!!!



Hey, everyone likes a challenge right?

*sigh*

marlof

andy wrote:

truthfully, i don't mind i.e. as a user

That is until you try running I.E. specific sites on your Mac, for which platform development of I.E. is stuck since version 5-point-something.... I dislike websites that require I.E. to be present (my local Sonystyle store being one of them), since I can't use those on my iBook.

luke_church

W.W. Webster wrote:

No offence or aspersions were intended! Where I come from, this is considered as merely 'taking the piss'. In the context of this forum as taking a 'wide angle', I just thought the comment was a little telling, but I'll be more circumspect if others take umbrage.

Don't worry, and please don't become more circumspect... :

I didn't take that much offence, just wanted to be clear that while some of MS' products may be junk, but many of their people are not.

No offence taken...

Luke

luke_church

Sam wrote:

You claim Tony invented quick snorting.

Isn't that a network analysis tool? www.snort.org

Simon designed hassle……………I can personally tell you my ex wife designed and perfected hassle, not Simon.

So what if Don wrote a book on buildings?

Com'on, it's better than writing one on the floor

Oh and the last “Sure, some of their products may have issues”.

I’m real glad they ain’t making parachutes or guns.

At this jucture I'm tempted to make snide political comments, but I will refrain. : (Angelic smiley)

Do they work for Acme?

Nah, Contoso. www.contoso.com

And your trying to stick up for these MS persons your gonna hafta do better than this.

Any suggestions? :

Luke