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Microsoft Publishes Free XBox Development Tools 221

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on Monday December 11, 2006 @11:27PM from the compile-once-crash-twice dept.

prostoalex writes "Microsoft announced the release of free XNA Game Studio Express tools for developing C# games that run on both Windows and XBox. They're also selling XNA Creators Club subscriptions, which, similar to MSDN subscriptions, offer access to sample code and additional documentation. Also, Microsoft is explicitly aiming towards uniting the Windows and XBox development platforms: 'You will have to compile the game once for each platform. In this release simply create a separate project for each platform and then compile them both. Our goal is to allow as much code as possible to be shared between those two projects, allowing you to use the same source files in both projects, but platform-specific code will need to be conditionally-compiled.'"

Submission + - New developments at Microsoft Research

Submitted by

prostoalex

on Sunday December 10, 2006 @09:44PM

prostoalex writes: "Information Week magazine runs a brief report from Microsoft Research, showcasing some of the new technologies the company's research division is working on. Among them — a rootkit that eliminates other rootkits, a firewall that blocks the traffic exploiting published vulnerabilities, a system for catching lost e-mail, a honeypot targeted at discovering zero-day exploits as well as some anti-phishing applications."

Journal SPAM: John McCain declares Illegal images must be reported 2

Journal by Jeremiah Cornelius on Sunday December 10, 2006 @08:40PM

Seen on c|net, Declan McCullagh writes

"Millions of commercial Web sites and personal blogs would be required to report illegal images or videos posted by their users or pay fines of up to $300,000"

The legislation has been drafted by the Republican Presidential hopeful, John McCain.

Submission + - Top 5 Wii Downfalls

Submitted by

Deathspawner

on Sunday December 10, 2006 @07:07PM

Deathspawner writes: "Since the Wii has been released there has been mostly great things said about it. Techgage has found more wrong than right with the console however, and lays out five prime reasons where the Wii fails and should be improved. Some of the features picked on include the subpar online Virtual Console selection, clunky setup and even the reason the Wii is popular to begin with."

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