http://www.microsoft.com/windowsazure/ :)

1. MS & Windows shills may laugh about this, but only because they feel your pain. Beyond that, what does making this statement even mean?
2. 64bit hardware is cheap. You can buy an AMD64 X2 5000 Dual Core CPU for 38 bucks shipped.. add a mobo for another 45 and if you need ram, another 50. eBay for more savings

Well, Microsoft has certainly set the bar for developer tools. If hardware companies live up on the hardware side, i'd pretty much say WP7 is "in the bag" but hey, thats just me :)

The WP7 tools are almost too easy to use.. Being late to the game may be the best thing for MS. Learn from everyone elses mistakes (as well as your own heha.. (kin))

A quick run of Sunspider performance results

http://www2.webkit.org/perf/sunspider-0.9/sunspider-results.html?%7B%223d-cube%22:%5B16,16,16,16,16%5D,%223d-morph%22:%5B21,21,21,21,21%5D,%223d-raytrace%22:%5B16,16,16,16,16%5D,%22access-binary-trees%22:%5B5,5,5,5,5%5D,%22access-fannkuch%22:%5B10,11,11,11,11%5D,%22access-nbody%22:%5B17,17,17,17,18%5D,%22access-nsieve%22:%5B3,3,3,3,3%5D,%22bitops-3bit-bits-in-byte%22:%5B1,1,1,1,1%5D,%22bitops-bits-in-byte%22:%5B4,4,5,4,5%5D,%22bitops-bitwise-and%22:%5B3,3,3,3,3%5D,%22bitops-nsieve-bits%22:%5B9,9,9,9,9%5D,%22controlflow-recursive%22:%5B2,2,2,2,2%5D,%22crypto-aes%22:%5B7,7,7,7,7%5D,%22crypto-md5%22:%5B5,5,5,5,6%5D,%22crypto-sha1%22:%5B6,6,6,6,6%5D,%22date-format-tofte%22:%5B18,18,18,19,19%5D,%22date-format-xparb%22:%5B20,21,20,20,20%5D,%22math-cordic%22:%5B1,1,1,1,1%5D,%22math-partial-sums%22:%5B18,18,18,19,19%5D,%22math-spectral-norm%22:%5B10,10,10,10,10%5D,%22regexp-dna%22:%5B18,18,18,18,18%5D,%22string-base64%22:%5B7,7,7,7,7%5D,%22string-fasta%22:%5B22,22,22,22,21%5D,%22string-tagcloud%22:%5B30,30,30,30,30%5D,%22string-unpack-code%22:%5B32,32,32,32,32%5D,%22string-validate-input%22:%5B17,17,17,17,17%5D%7D

lol wut?

Efficiencies can be found by optimizing the workflow in which case IE 9 optimally takes advantage of GPU or multiple cores for better performance.

Installed the beta and initial speed is very impressive. Slashdot runs quicker in IE9 than it does on Chrome 6 or Opera 10.62. Reddit is also noticeably faster.. Page navigation in eBay is so fast that it doesn't seem like its going across the internet.

Nope.

I've had a multi-core CPU and dedicated GPU for nearly 10+ years now. Its about time the web browser takes advantage of such.

In fact, I would suggest the opposite of what you say. The work required to scale up the application using all available resources makes a more robust framework to build upon which is better for the long run.

All i see there is 9/15/10 :)

Another hour i guess we'll see the downloads

Once the beta is out, i'll give this a shot and post my results.

AMD Phenom 955 Quad Core with ATI 4850 SLI & Windows 7

As far as I can tell joe public can't get it until after the official announcement @ 10:30 PDT. Anyone have a beta download link? Still not on connect as of now

Maybe the Internet was social to begin with?

I don't like the way its being dominated by single entities acting as marketing companies, but i'm not naive enough to think it isn't a fundamental aspect of the very existence of the Internet :)

This isn't about accelerating web pages to load quicker, this is about allowing the web browser to render content that would have severely crashed it or rendered it to slow to use before. This is about HTML5 and enabling an application/gaming/presentation framework over the web that has native performance.

Privacy shouldn't be ignored just because you work for someone. I remember when peopled used to give a shit and ask you how you were doing or actually paid attention to your job performance. Now i can socially network someone out of a job as well and these corporations still don't get it. Nice

Development for WP7 is free. MS is also very competitive on marketplace pricing & royalties.

I may also add, that Google only officially supports android on mobile devices. None of those tablets/pads/pda type devices are allowed to run Google apps or Google Marketplace.