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appleinsider.com - 12/16/2008
OpenCL and OpenGL take on DirectX
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The broad industry support Apple is building around OpenCL will help increase the critical mass behind OpenGL, the 2D and 3D graphics language Apple uses extensively in Mac OS X.

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microsoft.com - 12/13/2008
Serious IE Flaw Gets Special Patch Treatment
— microsoft.com — Serious IE Flaw Gets Special Patch Treatment (more) Serious IE Flaw Gets Special Patch Treatment

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blog.seattlepi.nwsource.com - 12/15/2008
Suit: Microsoft knew Xbox could damage discs
— blog.seattlepi.nwsource.com — A document unsealed in a lawsuit last week suggests that Microsoft employees knew before putting the Xbox 360 on the market in November 2005 that the video game console could damage game discs. (more) Suit: Microsoft knew Xbox could damage discs

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community.winsupersite.com - 12/12/2008
How to fix Windows Mobile
— community.winsupersite.com — This is an interesting if misguided article and, coincidentally, I met with the Windows Mobile folks just this week, so it’s good timing as well: In recent months, Microsoft's mobile strategy has hit a rough patch. In the third quarter, iPhone ... (more) How to fix Windows Mobile

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Apple uses OpenCL and OpenGL take on Microsoft’s DirectX
MacDailyNews — ... Microsoft's stumble with Vista and its DirectX/Direct3D version 10 has also helped to stall its momentum in the market. Microsoft plans to add OpenCL-like support for GPGPU computing into DirectX 11 in Windows 7, but Apple's OpenCL, which is designed to work closely with OpenGL code, will arrive first and with broad industry support. Apple has also released OpenCL as a royalty-free, open standard anyone can implement on any platform," McLean reports. Full article - recommended - here . [Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader "Fred Mertz" for the heads up.] ...

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