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MS quietly releases WPF/E Mac beta

updated 04:15 pm EST, Tue December 5, 2006

MS releases WPF/E Mac beta


setteB.IT reports that Microsoft has quietly released a Mac beta of WPF/E, its Windows Presentation Foundation Everywere plug-in. The software is designed to enhance Web browsers -- Safari and Firefox 1.5.0.8 -- by enabling them to render rich content in addition to HTML. The December 2006 Community Technology Preview will expire on February 18th, 2007, but is available now as a digital download from Microsoft's website. The plug-in requires Mac OS X 10.4.8 or later running on a PowerPC G3 500MHz or faster system with 128MB of memory. The new beta release works with Intel-based Macs and will function normally until the expiration date, according to Microsoft, after which it will prompt users to update to the latest version upon any attempt to render a page that requires the plug-in.


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  1. dashiel

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    12/05, 04:28pm | report spam | Reply |

    cool...

    sparkle and wpf seem pretty interesting. though there's no way in h*** i'm installing a microsoft beta product that connects to the internet.

  1. jarod

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    12/05, 04:49pm | report spam | Reply |

    WTF

    is Windows Presentation Foundation anyhow? It's bad enough that their FINAL releases are fataly bad. Do they honestly think, people will install MS BETAware on their Macs to view 1 or 2 pathetic sites that no one gives a s*** about anyhow? Get real.

  1. l008com

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    12/05, 04:51pm | report spam | Reply |

    wow

    does MS try to come up with the worst names ever? Cause I don't think you could come up with this stuff if you weren't trying.

  1. ricardogf

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    12/05, 05:13pm | report spam | Reply |

    As usual, phone home...

    Oh poor MS...you are hopeless.

    From MS's page:

    “WPF/E” (codename) will periodically ping Microsoft.com to verify its integrity (at which point the only information that will be communicated will be your IP address and the module version).

  1. jpellino

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    12/05, 05:34pm | report spam | Reply |

    so......

    what can I do now that I couldn;t do before?

  1. jarod

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    12/05, 05:56pm | report spam | Reply |

    To: jpellino

    You will probably crash more now! ;-)

  1. t6hawk

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    12/05, 07:44pm | report spam | Reply |

    Why is it called...

    Windows Presentation Foundation anyways? It's running on a Mac.

  1. LordJohnWhorfin

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    12/05, 11:00pm | report spam | Reply |

    Same old tricks...

    Another platform marginalization tool brought to you by the Evil Empire™. Except that it's not going to work this time around because nobody wants their c*** anymore.

  1. Guntis

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    12/06, 02:05am | report spam | Reply |

    So...what is rich content

    "The software is designed to enhance Web browsers -- Safari and Firefox 1.5.0.8 -- by enabling them to render rich content in addition to HTML." On their website I couldn't find answer to what is "rich content" which I'm supposed to lack without this plugin... Now I can view Flash, QT, WMV, etc. What am I missing? Kernel panics? I'm happy to live with as little of MS as possible. Only MS Office for those rare situations when I need to print documents sent to me from my PC friends.

  1. Sprocket

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    12/06, 06:25am | report spam | Reply |

    Be vewwy, vewwy quiet!

    I'm glad I was quietly notified of this WPF/E release. That way it won't wake anyone when I flush this thing down the bog.

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