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Millennium on 12 April 2009
JaggedSac said:
Millennium said:
Sun makes many things, but if Microsoft is hiring people away from them then it's probably to work on either the operating system or the .NET platform, not games. If they want to get game programmers, they'll hire them away from game developers, and Sun isn't one of those.

No one said he was going to be a games programmer.

The title of this thread does.



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JaggedSac on 12 April 2009
Millennium said:
JaggedSac said:
Millennium said:
Sun makes many things, but if Microsoft is hiring people away from them then it's probably to work on either the operating system or the .NET platform, not games. If they want to get game programmers, they'll hire them away from game developers, and Sun isn't one of those.

No one said he was going to be a games programmer.

The title of this thread does.

No it doesn't.  Games is referring to the competition between whomever is involved in the next generation of video games.  At least that is my interpretation.

 



alephnull on 12 April 2009

Wow a CTO! This is big news because we all know CTO's, CFO's, and CEO's are responsible for all technological progress. That is when Super Scientist/Super Soldier Will Smith isn't responsible.

This is actually important, but the story is that company execs are bailing from a sinking SUN.



lanjiaona on 12 April 2009

holy awesome!

this is why I love MS forever.



WereKitten on 12 April 2009
JaggedSac said:
Millennium said:
JaggedSac said:
Millennium said:
Sun makes many things, but if Microsoft is hiring people away from them then it's probably to work on either the operating system or the .NET platform, not games. If they want to get game programmers, they'll hire them away from game developers, and Sun isn't one of those.

No one said he was going to be a games programmer.

The title of this thread does.

No it doesn't.  Games is referring to the competition between whomever is involved in the next generation of video games.  At least that is my interpretation.

 

That's my interpretation too. But games have been afoot for a while now. For example, Intel and Sony evaluating the possibility of a Larrabbee-based GPU for the next Playstation is at least 4 months old.

My take is that this guy will work on the toolchain: devkits, compiler optimization for multicore architecture etc.

At Sun they probably have worked quite a lot on those for their Niagara-based machines. If IBM's aquisition really happens, once again MS and Sony will work with not-so-different ingredients, because I suppose that some of the same technology will trickle down the Cell line.

 



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alephnull on 12 April 2009
WereKitten said:

 

My take is that this guy will work on the toolchain: devkits, compiler optimization for multicore architecture etc.

 

 

This is the guy who will manage those guys.



WereKitten on 12 April 2009
alephnull said:
WereKitten said:

 

My take is that this guy will work on the toolchain: devkits, compiler optimization for multicore architecture etc.

 

 

This is the guy who will manage those guys.

Of course. I don't kow the internal terminology at MS, but I suppose that title is either for a software architect or a project manager.

 



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BTFeather55 on 12 April 2009

I thought we had all agreed that there wouldn't be a new xbox until 2014. What's up with this and the Blizzard announcement from last month?



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TheTruthHurts! on 12 April 2009

Interesting news,......thank you for the info Squilliam....:)



.jayderyu on 12 April 2009
BTFeather55 said:
I thought we had all agreed that there wouldn't be a new xbox until 2014. What's up with this and the Blizzard announcement from last month?

When a console comes out is not the same thing when planning starts. All companies after release start the next project. Considering the 360 has been out for 3 years now they probably already have the architecturedesign  in place. Though we won't see screen shots of what the new machine for another year or 2. Maybe more. 

 



Squilliam: On Vgcharts its a commonly accepted practice to twist the bounds of plausibility in order to support your argument or agenda so I think its pretty cool that this gives me the precedent to say whatever I damn well please.