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Formed by former members of Microsoft, Wildsnake Software has released a number of casual games over the years but later this year they will also be the exclusive publisher for new games created by Tetris creator Alexey Pajitnov. Gamecloud got a chance to chat with Wildsnake co-founder "Andy" (he prefers to be called that in interviews) to find out more about the company and future plans.

Back in the days of classic ASP, if you were building a database-driven web site, your choice was either to invest a lot of money to get a copy of Microsoft SQL Server (or some other enterprise-ready database) or invest a lot of time finding a way to deal with the performance and scalability limitations of Microsoft Access. Luckily these days there's another viable alternative: MySQL.

Learn the concepts of 3-D video game production as instructors from DigiPen Institute of Technology demonstrate the key stages of developing a game engine using Microsoft Visual C# 2005 Express Edition, a new development environment for beginner programmers.

Games User Research at Microsoft Game Studios

Há um ditado nos círculos tecnológicos, muitas vezes dito com ressentimento que, se você der oportunidade aos caras da Microsoft, eles entregarão um produto com credibilidade. Eles fizeram isso com planilhas. Eles fizeram isso com os navegadores. E agora, com o novo Xbox 360, a equipe de Bill Gates apresentou um sistema de mídia e game realmente excelente. E não há nada de ressentido nisso.

A Microsoft sequer pensava em investir na indústria de consoles e ele já estava lá, trabalhando na divisão de jogos da gigante que hoje concorre com Nintendo e Sony pela supremacia dos videogames, e que prepare-se para o lançamento do Xbox 360 em novembro.

A lot of us are fans of tabbed browsing. It's one of the most useful changes in window and document management since the Task Bar on Windows. People who like to work with multiple documents like quick, convenient access to them. It's part of the reason Microsoft moved Office to a SDI model. That said, Firefox is a browser for everybody, and a lot of people don't use a lot of windows. In one of the PDC videos released a month or so back, a Microsoft representative said that they had done studies that showed that users generally had no more than 5 windows open at a time. This surprised them because they, like most of us, were used to browsing with tens of windows. The challenges that face us building the Firefox UI is how to make Tabbed Browsing useful to those who want it, discoverable to those whose lives would be made easier by it, and transparent to those who don't need it.

� frente de competidores de peso, como Yahoo e Microsoft, que ainda trabalham nos seus betas, a Inova, empresa brasileira fundada em 1996, lan�a uma plataforma de webmail baseada em AJAX, arquitetura que permite o desenvolvimento de aplica��es web ricas.

�ltimamente, �l y Donald Norman no paran de alabar los nuevos productos de Microsoft, y lo sospechoso es que lo hacen criticando el entorno Macintosh.

Macintosh-style interaction design has reached its limits. A new paradigm, called results-oriented UI, might well be the way to empower users in the future.