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Amazon has announced a new product in its Amazon Web Services cloud suite. Amazon Glacier is designed for archiving. According to the service description, you get redundant storage over “multiple facilities and on multiple devices within each facility” with regular data integrity checks, giving annual durability which Amazon works out somehow as 99.999999999%. Storage pricing …continue reading Amazon Glacier: archiving on demand at low prices I have been busy upgrading computers to Windows 8 now that the RTM is available. So far so good, though I ran into a problem with a printer which, oddly, worked fine in the Windows 8 Release Preview. The printer is a Kodak All-on-one. Kodak has a universal installer for all its all-in-one printers. When …continue reading Installing Kodak All-in-One Printer driver on Windows 8 Windows 8 is now available for download on MSDN and TechNet, which means the final code is in the hands of a large number of Microsoft-platform professionals. I have been trying out the release, which I installed both as an upgrade over the Release Preview (it does not really upgrade it, but does keep a …continue reading Windows 8 release now available; you should install it Poor old Microsoft. Windows 8, the reimagining of Windows, is getting a mixed reception. There is a kind of alliance, with those who you would expect to oppose Microsoft (open source advocates, Apple enthusiasts and so on) lining up with Windows diehards who dislike too much change. Like Windows stalwart Woody Leonhard (remember those endless …continue reading Windows 8 RTM: it’s better than you may have heard Microsoft has now announced that the first Windows RT tablets will come from Asus, Dell, Lenovo, Samsung, and from Microsoft itself with Surface. Windows 8 on ARM is a different thing to Windows 8 on Intel. On Intel, most Windows applications will run. On Windows RT, the ARM version, only Windows Runtime apps …continue reading Why I want a Windows RT (ARM) tablet Or should that be Metro-style apps? or Modern UI apps? or Windows Store apps? I am not sure; but one thing jumps out at me as I look at the Windows 8 development platform. Microsoft is doing all it can to push developers towards Windows Runtime (WinRT) rather than desktop development. Here is a …continue reading Microsoft really, really wants developers to build Windows Runtime apps Today I came across the certification requirements for Windows 8 desktop apps. This is the successor to the Windows 7 Logo program, and represents a set of best practices required for software to display the official Windows logo. In practice, I am not sure how many buyers check that software is certified before buying, though …continue reading Microsoft toughens logo requirements for Windows 8, forbids startup apps After trying out Windows 8 notifications from a Windows Forms application, I did a bit of research into using the Windows Runtime (WinRT) API from desktop applications. It turns out that this is something Microsoft planned for: Desktop apps should for the most part be able to use WinRT. This is an area where we …continue reading Using Windows Runtime (WinRT) APIs from desktop applications |
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