Monday, July 26, 2004

This is the announcement you've been waiting for.  You've seen me post a “teaser blog” about this before, but I'm delighted to say the real thing is ready for download now.  Look at all the goodies you get:

  • HLSL support for Pixel Shader & Vertex Shader 3.0
  • Effects Framework performance improvements
  • Pre computed Radiance Transfer improvements
  • New Sample framework
  • New & Updated Samples
  • Improved Documentation
  • PIX tool for better debugging of Direct3D applications
  • Introduction of the Preview Pipeline for easier content creation
  • and.. Winforms-like UI features to add extra pizazz to those full-screen DX games!

You can get the SDK here.  Enjoy!

7/26/2004 4:32:25 PM (Pacific Daylight Time, UTC-07:00)  #    Comments [2]  |  Trackback
Wednesday, July 14, 2004

Every year, Microsoft holds a conference for our field people.  It's a great time to show a huge percentage of our field folks (about 12,000 of them) a little love.  I've been busy working on a killer demo that will be available for public viewing sometime in late summer, but the first live demo will be tomorrow in front of 15,000 screaming 'softies.  The keynote stage is, well, freakin' huge.  Below is a picture of ONE HALF of the backstage area, taken up in the mezzanine level of the Georgia Dome with a Pentax Optio S4i in “Night mode”  When the pic was taken, things were pretty quiet, but by tomorrow morning, this area is going to be a swarming mass of people.

This nice thing about this event, for me at least, is that it represents a turning point for me in many ways.  Most importantly to you, my six loyal readers, is that my blogging frequency will increase very soon!  Watch for more posts coming!

7/14/2004 2:04:22 PM (Pacific Daylight Time, UTC-07:00)  #    Comments [0]  |  Trackback
Friday, July 02, 2004

Most of you are well-aware of the Download.Ject exploit recently discovered in WindowsThis morning, the Microsoft Security Response Center released a configuration change to the Windows Operating System that is designed to help protect customers against recent attacks against Internet Explorer.  This update was released to the Microsoft Download Center

(http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=4D056748-C538-46F6-B7C8-2FBFD0D237E3&DisplayLang=en)

and will be on Windows Update shortly for all supported versions of Windows. 

Please install this patch immediately, and please pass this post along to everybody you know that uses WIndows.  Thank you!

7/2/2004 9:27:11 AM (Pacific Daylight Time, UTC-07:00)  #    Comments [0]  |  Trackback

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