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Today's Stuff Saturday, December 01, 2001

Microsoft's Tablet PC vision video (high bandwidth). [John Robb's Radio Weblog]

Cringely: Why .NET will fail. But also why Microsoft will ultimately succeed. Basically, they'll end up transforming the entire company based on the negative feedback from the first cut of .NET. Remember in 1995 when Bill Gates hadn't figured out this Internet thingie yet and thought the future of computers was in multimedia CD-ROMs? Now MSIE has 80% market share. It'll be just like that.

[diveintomark]

Nikon clarify XP compatibility update. The NikonTech USA website that Nikon has announced its software updates to make NikonScan, NikonCapture, NikonView fully compatible with Windows XP. According to the NikonTech website these updates will now be... [Digital Photography Review (dpreview.com)]

WinXP steals your bandwidth.. The Register: WinXP steals your bandwidth. Considering the real bottlenecks in networks, I don't see how any amount of packet scheduling on edge hosts is going to prevent "the system [from being] brought to its knees because Dave in support is busy warezing Emannuelle in Tibet". [Hack the Planet]

Gates Predicts a Wireless World. When Bill Gates speaks, people listen, especially those Usenet-based volunteers dubbed Microsoft's 'most valuable professionals.' Gates says wireless networking is the wave of the future. Manny Frishberg reports from Washington. [Wired News]