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.
cool...
12/05, 04:28pm reply
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.
dashiel
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WTF
12/05, 04:49pm reply
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.
jarod
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wow
12/05, 04:51pm reply
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.
l008com
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As usual, phone home...
12/05, 05:13pm reply
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).
ricardogf
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so......
12/05, 05:34pm reply
what can I do now that I couldn;t do before?
jpellino
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To: jpellino
12/05, 05:56pm reply
You will probably crash more now! ;-)
jarod
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Why is it called...
12/05, 07:44pm reply
Windows Presentation Foundation anyways? It's running on a Mac.
t6hawk
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Same old tricks...
12/05, 11:00pm reply
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.
LordJohnWhorfin
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So...what is rich content
12/06, 02:05am reply
"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.
Guntis
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Be vewwy, vewwy quiet!
12/06, 06:25am reply
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.
Sprocket
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