AFDS11: Microsoft Announces C++ AMP, Competitor to OpenCL
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Re: AFDS11: Microsoft Announces C++ AMP, Competitor to OpenCL
#2wow didn't i just see AMD's announcement of OpenCL?
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#3Just when I thought Microsoft had finally seen the virtue of contributing to an existing standard instead of being different just for the sake of being different. Surely the software industry as a whole would be better off if Microsoft instead threw its weight into fixing whatever is wrong with OpenCL.
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#5"another option with the full weight of Microsoft behind it"
Well, thank goodness for that. There was me thinking it might be a temporary project to grab some developer mindshare to be dumped in a couple of years.
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#6Just when I thought Microsoft had finally seen the virtue of contributing to an existing standard instead of being different just for the sake of being different. Surely the software industry as a whole would be better off if Microsoft instead threw its weight into fixing whatever is wrong with OpenCL.
True, why not utilize OpenCL but invent another alternative?
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#7"another option with the full weight of Microsoft behind it" Well, thank goodness for that. There was me thinking it might be a temporary project to grab some developer mindshare to be dumped in a couple of years.
Time will show if this statement will be true.
They've put weight on Silverlight as well and now they're ditching it for HTML5.
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#8Just when I thought Microsoft had finally seen the virtue of contributing to an existing standard instead of being different just for the sake of being different. Surely the software industry as a whole would be better off if Microsoft instead threw its weight into fixing whatever is wrong with OpenCL.
True, why not utilize OpenCL but invent another alternative?
Because that would make it easier to port things away from Windows.
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#9Just when I thought Microsoft had finally seen the virtue of contributing to an existing standard instead of being different just for the sake of being different. Surely the software industry as a whole would be better off if Microsoft instead threw its weight into fixing whatever is wrong with OpenCL.
I agree. Microsoft's childish attitude towards reinventing the wheel and hijacking ownership is adversely affecting progress in technology.
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#10Just when I thought Microsoft had finally seen the virtue of contributing to an existing standard instead of being different just for the sake of being different. Surely the software industry as a whole would be better off if Microsoft instead threw its weight into fixing whatever is wrong with OpenCL.
Just when I thought Microsoft had finally seen
the virtue of contributing to an existing standard
Of course, not when they can force their own standard down on people's throats and get away with it, like they did with Direct 3D, which eventually won (on Windows anyway), but if you are talking about HTML5, remember that they tried their luck with Silverlight first.