Acronyms for Windows Vista
Since Windows Vista came into the world, a lot of acronyms are flying around in cyberspace. Be sure to know what your colleagues are talking about ...
- WinFX : managed API, superset of the existing .NET Framework
- WPF : Windows Presentation Foundation (formerly code-named Avalon)
- WCF : Windows Communication Foundation (formerly code-named Indigo)
- WF : Windows Workflow Foundation
- XAML : Extensible Application Markup Language
- BAML : Binary (or compiled) XAML
- LDDM : Longhorn Display Model Driver
- XPS : XML Paper Specification
- Aero : Windows Vista Aero provides spectacular visual effects
- UAC : User Account Control
- RSS : Really Simple Syndication [not new]
- Sidebar : a pane on the side of the Windows Vista desktop that organizes gadgets
- Gadgets : mini-applications running in the sidebar on your desktop
- SuperFetch : allows applications and files to load much faster than before
- ReadyBoost : improves dynamically your PC performance with adding system memory (RAM)
- ReadyDrive : enables PCs to boot up faster, preserve battery power, ...
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posted by Pieter @ 22:22
3 Comments:
At 9:59 AM,
Anonymous said…
didn't they renamed winfx to .net framework 3.0?
see: http://tweakers.net/nieuws/42951/WinFX-wordt-hernoemd-naar-.NET-Framework-3.0.html
and:
http://blogs.msdn.com/somasegar/archive/2006/06/09/624300.aspx
At 4:55 PM,
Pieter said…
The renaming of WinFX to the .NET Framework 3.0 is not a good idea. WinFX is not really a new framework, it's more a kind of an upgrade of the .NET Framework 2.0. winFX uses the .NET Framework 2.0 (CLR v2.0) if I see it correctly ...
At 12:02 PM,
Anonymous said…
is 2.0 then a new framework? i think this is an upgrade of the 1.0 (or 1.1)
-> so 1.0 code + some added stuff + fixes + blabla = 2.0 -> 2.0 + some added stuff + fixes + blabla = 3.0 -> 3.0 + some added stuff + fixes + blabla = 4.0 ...
isn't this the way versioning works?
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