Windows 7 Beta release, out now

Hello folks, sorry for being inactive lately, I’be been really busy, anyway, Microsoft has finally released its new operating system Windows Seven, available in its Beta release since a week, the good news is that it’s available for public download and for free, Microsoft seems to be interested in everbody’s opinion, good thing, the downloads will be available till January 27th, within this time you can have your Windows 7 key and activate your Beta copy, after January 27th you won’t be able to activate it, just to test it for 30 days, bad, so hurry up, here’s the download link:

http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windows-7/beta-download.aspx

Test it and give your feedbacks to MS so they can improve it in the upcoming releases,  though, Microsoft is being much sef-confident with Windows 7 and said that it’s “feature complete” and it doesn’t expect much changes in the final release, so the Beta release is pretty close to the final release, we’ll see.

Windows Seven main features:

In my opinion the biggest step Microsoft has made with Win 7 is that it’s really not ressource-consuming comparing to its predecessor Windows Vista, the minimal hardware requirements for Win 7 are:

1GHz CPU, 1GO of RAM, 16GO free disk space.

About the ergonomics, it’s improved a little bit, but especially optimized I’d say.

Here’s a link that provides the Windows 7 features:

http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windows-7/whats-new.aspx

Will this OS succeed? Will this OS cover the failure of Vista? To answer these question you have to be patient.

OpenCL : A prgramming language that takes advantage of the GPU

Graphical processing units (GPUs) are of a stunning power, they are as powerful as CPUs or even more, with millions of transistors they are supposed be used for comlex processing, however, most of us exploit the GPU to play fancy  video games, with that usage the GPUs are underused, and they can be useful for more important stuff, that’s why The Khronos Group has developed the OpenCL specification, it stands for Open Computing Language, it takes the power of the GPUs and give it to regular application processing, thus, it can turn your computer into a supercomputer.

The first company that took advantage of that technology is Apple, it developed the OpenCL 1.0 and will make it available in MAC OS X Snow Leopard, it will considerably help developers to boost the speed of their applications.
Microsoft hasn’t gone for the support of such technology yet in Vista or Windows Seven, however, windows users can still benefit from the OpenCL technology when the GPUs manufacturers such as Nvidia and ATI support OpenCL.

Microsoft upcoming DirectX release (DirectX11), will provide developers a great control on whether to do the processing on the GPU or the CPU, though, it isn’t as broader as the OpenCL as the DirectX11 will be more focused on 3D games performance improvement.

My blog presentation…

Hello everybody,

Thanks for stepping by my blog, I’m pleased to announce the creation of my first blog, I’m new in blogging so I’m going to do my best to post interesting stuff, my main passion is IT (information technology), especially coding, so this blog is dedicated to IT-related topics, so if you like IT, and care about its evolution especially in Algeria this blog is for you and you should add it to your favorites, I’ll try to post articles covering the current technologies, future IT insights, summaries of some important IT conferences, tutorials, and last but not least, important IT-related events in Algeria generally and in my university (USTHB) in particular. That’s it for now, I hope I can give the best of the topics I mentionned above. So stay tuned, and visit my blog regularly.

See you soon .