Windows 8.1 is on its way!

MPEG DASH is nice but it's no Silverlight replacement.

There were many more things announced today at BUILD than just those. IE11 was one of the most impressive revelations. Not only does it support WebGL and streaming video, it does that both in a browser and in an app. Very cool

Companies pay a single person the same salary as a marriedperson but they pay the married personTHOUSANDS more in health and other benefits. Why?

Yet another great company taken down by Android. The only two companies that make any money on Android are Samsung and Microsoft (from royalties).

Great to see some support for block-by-deafult from another Browser. IE was going it alone and taking all the heat. Now the pressure is on Google to do the same for Chrome.

Azure has made some incredible strides in recently months. They announce new features almost every week. I can't wait to see more at Build 2013. My company has slowly been moving more and more resources into Azure and out of our own datacenters.

I curious about how many people have actually tried a laptop with a touch screen. I'm guessing most people who are against it haven't even tried it. I still love my mouse and keyboard but there's nothing like being able to reach up and stretch an image or drag some content around with two fingers.

Slap Windows 8.1 on there and you've got a customer.

So how does the performance and energy consumption stack up to a new Haswell x86 chip?

How can you call it a tie after listing tons of features that java doesn't even have? C# is the clear winner with the following features that are lacking in Java: -Properties -REAL generics (not type erasure) -async/await -value types (struct) -the ref and out keywords -the dynamic keyword (and dynamic types) -the var keyword (or type inference) -LINQ -Better introspection and reflection (Reflection.Emit) -Named parameters -Partial classes -Extension Methods -The new Roslyn (Complier-as-a-service) in C# 5 -Better built-in bindings to C++ -The ability to pin memory and get pointers to it for high-performance operations -The but-in HttpClient library -Far better GUI WYSIWYG editors and development tools for desktop, mobile and web applications C# pretty much destroys Java. It sounds like Jeff Cogswell is a Java developer that barely knows C# and therefore doesn't know what he doesn't know.

Who in the world wants to physically switch a disk every time you change games? Why can't we be free of disks and move into the 21st century? I would MUCH rather have a console that silently phoned home once a week than one that tethered me to an archaic disk. Microsoft should not have listened to all the complainers.

I've always wanted to be a part of one of these. I have no hacker skills but I can spot bugs.

He seems to only be comparing the API that Java and C# have in common. C# has gone way beyond java with async/await, true generics, properties, dynamic objects, the var keyword, and many more features. Sure, they are comparable languages if you just use the subset of C# that maps to Java.

Before the Surface RT came out there was quite a bit of excitement and anticipation that it would be priced at $199. So now that that price if finally a reality let's not call it "dumping". Just call it a great deal.