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Comment Project Offest has been around for YEARS! (Score 1) 184

by gecko2222 on Tuesday February 23, 2010 @02:51PM (#31247984) Attached to: Real-Time, Movie-Quality CGI For Games

This is ridiculous. I've been following the development of "Project Offset" since about 2006, when I was still in highschool, before they were bought by intel. Back then, those graphics looked pretty good alongside something like Half-Life 2, and honestly they still look pretty good today. And yes, they have come up with a technique to render CG quality graphics in real time. Find the video of the Dragon, or of the character fighting the troll, if those videos still exist. You'll see what they're talking about.

Microsoft Phasing Out FAST Search For Linux, Unix 146

Posted by Soulskill on Tuesday February 09, 2010 @12:04PM from the going-away dept.

viralMeme writes "Microsoft plans to begin phasing out Unix and Linux platform support for its FAST enterprise search products, as of its next release. According to a Thursday blog post from Microsoft Distinguished Engineer Bjørn Olstad, 'We’ve continued to sell, support, and update the Linux and UNIX versions of FAST ESP, and we’ve designed the next wave of FAST products (scheduled for release in the first half of calendar year 2010) to include a cross-platform search core that has been extended to take advantage of web services and support mixed-platform deployment models. With our 2010 products scheduled for release in a few months, we’ve just started to plan for our next wave of products. As a part of that planning process, we have decided that in order to deliver more innovation per release in the future, the 2010 products will be the last to include a search core that runs on Linux and UNIX. Many of our customers run FAST ESP on Linux and UNIX today, and we recognize that our future focus on Windows means change. To ease the transition, we’re investing in interoperability between Windows and other operating systems, reaffirming our commitment to 10 years of support for our non-Windows products, and taking concrete steps to help customers plan for the future.'"

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