Microsoft Announces New Operating Systems

Windows Vista Logo
Yesterday (October 27, 2008) Microsoft unveiled details of two new operating systems. Currently, the most commonly used Microsoft operating systems used are Windows XP and Windows Vista. Although frequently criticized, often by those who've never used it, Vista is actually a very stable, rich environment in which to work, particularly when used with up-to-date machines.


Nevertheless, Microsoft has decided to press ahead with successors for Vista. In late 2009, Windows 7 will be released. It will be much like Vista. Around the same time, Microsoft will release Windows Azure, an operating system that lives on Microsoft servers an not in your computer. This is called Cloud Computing, the "cloud" being the Internet. Basically this means that you won't need an operating system or programs: they will all live in the "cloud."



Whether this works out or not remains to be seen. However, many companies are already trying this, both with Microsoft and with Google products.


"Cloud Computing is one of the most used technology buzz words at present."

ICT 12 Student Blog List (Updated)

Ava Balingit

Ryan Battistel

Sofia Busse

Nicole Ceralde

Nathan Chiu

Tomasz Cieslik

Jonathan De Maeseneer

Danila Di Giacinto

Sonia Di Palma

Lia Estrellado

Kimberly Francisco

Dilantha Geekiyanage

Nikko Henderson

Nikka Komisarski

Steffani Mastromonaco

Caitlin Nery

Conner Olenick

Andrea Strazzullo

Adam Troczynski

Nikko Tagle

Alannah Villella

Jason Wong




This is an updated list of the student blogs.
Tomasz and Sonia are added.


Binary

The Binary Numeric system is restricted to two simple numbers, 1 and 0. When put in a certain sequence called bits, these two number can represent numbers.

Ex.
0001: 1
1010: 10
1111: 15

Number Guesser

We've been working with a program called Turbo Pascal to created a game wherein the computer would choose a number from 1-100. The game is meant to give the player clues if their guess is too high or too low.

This program has gone through 3 different versions. The first being a simple version of the game and the third being a more complex version (along with the introduction of using procedures to divide the code into different sections.

Global Anti-Piracy Day (The Day After)

Apparently yesterday (October 21, 2008) was Global Anti-Piracy Day. Kind of a late post, but better late than never, yes?

We all know that the programs (at least most of the really good ones) out there cost money. An example of that would be Adobe Photoshop. It's an amazing graphics/photo editing software that comes with a pretty hefty price... say about $700-$1000 USD, it really depends). It's quite expensive, but it's highly worth it.

Most people would buy it, but to those who really want it but don't have the money, they resort to buying (or downloading) a pirated copy. This hurts the businesses that actually sells these programs legally.

Microsoft if trying to put a stop to that. Follow this link to read more about it.

ICT 12 Student Blog List

Ava Balingit
Ryan Battistel
Sofia Busse
Nicole Ceralde
Nathan Chiu
Jonathan De Maeseneer
Danila Di Giacinto
Lia Estrellado (Me)
Kimberly Francisco
Dilantha Geekiyanage
Nikko Henderson
Nikka Komisarski
Steffani Mastromonaco
Caitlin Nery
Conner Olenick
Andrea Strazzullo
Adam Troczynski
Nikko Tagle
Alannah Villella
Jason Wong

These are the blog URLs for my ICT 12 class colleagues. The class is using Blogger throughout the year to record information about various programs and techniques.

This list will be updated to include several blog URLs not presently available.

iGoogle

Today I signed up for the iGoogle service and made a couple of minor custom changes. I added a custom widget to display my IP address.