The ability to have sophisticated forms so that users can interface with machines more intuitively is perhaps the biggest problem for the non-Microsoft lobby to solve," said James Governor, principal analyst at market research firm RedMonk.
The new software includes specialised extensions, such as tools for creating legal documents that used to be sold separately, plus integrated support for publishing documents in Adobe Systems' widespread portable document format (PDF).
And, truth be told, is there really anything that can be done outside the research labs? This issue is not new but it remains the unsolved problem of computing, namely how machines integrate into the very human environments that require them.
Digital Networks North America (maker of the Rio line), Creative Labs and Archos all offer 20GB players in the mid-$200 range, for example. But Windows-based machines are quickly catching up on several multimedia fronts that Apple has dominated...
A number of 'old skool' commentators in the UK have made that point that to own a Commodore was to support a US goliath against the plucky Brits beavering away at Sinclair Labs. According to Project64.com, the unofficial chronicler of the C64...
But JSON, like XML, is a human-readable text format, rather than a binary format such as Protocol Buffers, a fact that reduces JSON's efficiency, Google said. David Golightly, user experience developer lead for Zillow.com, argued the textual syntax...