So back in 1994 Denso Wave invented the QR codes. In 2008, Microsoft launches Microsoft Tag, their version of exactly the same thing.

Do we really need two competing standards for exactly the same thing. As consumers here we go again, it’s VHS vs. Beta, DVD-R vs. DVD+R and Blueray vs HD-DVD, and ethernet vs. token ring all over again.

Sigh.

I saw this today whilst analysing automation failures, and it made me laugh.

Assert.AreEqual failed. Expected:<10904.73>, Actual:<10904.73>.

So this is what happens when you compare two different types of double precision numbers …

So I installed Windows 7 beta 1 today on my macbook, inside parallels. The installation process was seriously impressive. Here is a sh0t of my desktop at the moment.

As you can see I am quite happily running Vista and Windows 7 inside Mac os x 10.5.5 using parallels. The only real gotcha was that I couldn’t install all the parallels tools, as one of the device drivers caused a blue screen.

Microsoft have released v0.4 of the WPF Application Quality Guide

Introducing “WPF Application Quality Guide v.0.4″

In light of the rapid adoption of the WPF and the continuous requests from partners and customers, the WPF team at Microsoft is happy to present the fourth preliminary release of the “WPF Application Quality Guide”. We plan to release the Guide in stages, updating and fine-tuning the content, based on feedback provided by you. This fourth release contains a updated reading roadmap that helps guide you through the sections based on your needs, data-driven testing, stress and stability testing, accessibility testing, updated globalization and localization testing, as well as TestApi in tools section.