Bye bye to Microsoft Max

BenCon — Sun, 10 Dec 2006 00:41:00 GMT

As we can see now on the home page, the Max project has ended. It was a real blast, and I had the opportunity to learn a lot about Avalon (now WPF) and to create a really cool product.

As the project closed, I decided to make a move in the company to where I can continue to work on cutting edge graphics and user interfaces, namely the Windows Client team. As Vista has been completed, the team is busy figuring out what the next version of Windows will look like, and this is an exciting team to move over to the team and help with that figuring out.

Just because Max does not work anymore does not mean that I will not be posting about WPF or answering questions about it. I have been slack with my posts lately with all of the moving around and goings on, but I hope to get some answering done today.

I got a new SmartPhone

BenCon — Fri, 28 Jan 2005 06:29:00 GMT

I got myself an Audiovox SMT5600 smartphone today. This thing is amazing.

It syncs to my outlook server for mail and calendar. It has IE on it. I can play movies and music on it. It came with all the cables to sync up to my computer like a PDA. And it is very snappy to use. Screen is a good resolution too.

And you can use it like a phone without any hassles.

Where will these things be in 5 years? The fact that I could compress 10 DVDs onto a card and play them on my phone is amazing to me - I did not think that things would get that good that fast. Will these things all converge more and more? I was going to get a little music player, but now I see little point.

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Bye bye to Microsoft Max

I got a new SmartPhone