Author Archives: Robin Maffeo
AMD and the Visual Studio 11 Beta
AMD and the Visual Studio 11 Beta Today marks the release of the Beta of Visual Studio 11, an exciting new version of Visual Studio that contains a number of enhancements and improvements over prior versions. While I won’t get … Continue reading
Microsoft C++ AMP – Another tool in the parallelism toolbox
This week, Microsoft announced a new technology called C++ AMP (Accelerated Massive Parallelism) at the AMD Fusion Developer Summit. C++ AMP will help enable developers to more easily build data parallel applications and better utilize mainstream heterogeneous hardware, such as the … Continue reading
Silverlight is Dead? Hardly. Long Live Silverlight!
Microsoft launches Silverlight 5 which will experience significantly improved performance when running on an AMD APU or GPU. Continue reading
Visual Studio 2010 Service Pack 1
Today Microsoft released Visual Studio 2010 SP1 for general download. This new update contains some notable features like basic HTML5 support in the editor, a stand-alone help viewer, Silverlight 4 Tools, a Silverlight performance wizard, and MFC support for animation and … Continue reading
Hardware Accelerated Web with AMD and Internet Explorer 9 Beta
I’ve blogged in the past about some of the features that Microsoft was working on for IE9 that developers should find exciting. Today those features come closer to the mainstream as Microsoft released the Internet Explorer 9 (IE9) Beta for … Continue reading
AMD and Internet Explorer 9 Platform Preview 3 – It Keeps Getting Better
A few months ago, I blogged about Microsoft’s Platform Preview release of Internet Explorer 9 (IE9), and discussed the software enhancements that really let the underlying hardware shine. Such announcements from Microsoft for IE9 included GPU hardware acceleration for text, … Continue reading
AMD and Microsoft Visual Studio 2010
AMD would like to congratulate Microsoft on today’s launch of Visual Studio 2010 (VS 2010). Personally, I’m excited about this release. I’ve had an opportunity to work with the RTM of VS 2010, and I’ve detailed some of my thoughts … Continue reading
IE9 Takes Advantage of the GPU
3/19/10 — Minor edit. Got a little ahead of myself; Microsoft did not announce they were supporting <canvas>. However, they did say that all of Internet Explorer 9′s graphics, text, and rendering will be hardware accelerated. Given the embraced HTML5 … Continue reading
