Archive for January, 2012
Windows Classic is dead in Win8
Wednesday, January 25th, 2012
In Windows Developer Preview, Windows Classic theming mode no longer exists, and UX theming mode has been modified to include support for high contrast themes. Also, the system now stores the current visual styles so that they are always available, even when the Themes service is not running. Because of these changes, applications that target only Windows Developer Preview no longer need two separate code paths to support visual styles and high contrast themes.
It’s crazy that the old Windows 95 widget support exists under the hood of every Win OS up to Windows 7. As a developer this presents added work in insuring support, especially in projects like Mozilla, which handle common control theme rendering internally. I can’t believe it’s taken this long for MS to kill Classic off – this is great news. Good F’n riddance!
New Boxster
Friday, January 13th, 2012
More here. Nice looking ride.
Based on the current exchange rate, the S model will run around 61K USD. Not bad!
Irony Meme
Wednesday, January 11th, 2012
Is Ron Paul really the crackpot paranoid of the group or is he the realist?
Also, what the heck constitutes a “Homeland Security”, how much money does it get, and how much authority did we grant it?
