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Matt Stein’s Blog and Microsoft’s Mojave Marketing

1 September 2008 at 3:34 pm » Comments (1)

Thanks to Shaan Hurley for revealing to the wider world the existence of Ribbon Man Matt Stein's blog. I'm not sure it's appropriate for a blogging n00b like myself to ...more »

AutoCAD 2009 – The Prequel Part 17 – Ribbon Performance 2

15 March 2008 at 10:32 pm » Comments (0)

Testing performance under Vista can be an interesting experience. The trouble is, Vista tries to improve its performance by observing what you do and caching it for later use in ...more »

AutoCAD 2009 – The Prequel Part 8 – Vista Startup Times

4 March 2008 at 9:27 pm » Comments (7)

I've now tested startup times of various AutoCAD releases under Vista. Here are the results, alongside the XP results for ease of comparison: Release First Startup Subsequent Startup XP Vista XP Vista 12 8.6 - 8.2 - 13 2.6 1.8 1.3 0.8 14 2.1 - 0.5 - 2002 3.2 2.1 0.6 1.1 2004 - 4.3 - 1.7 2005 - 7.9 - 4.5 2006 14.9 8.7 2.6 4.4 2007 13.8 11.9 3.5 6.6 2008 14.6 10.5 3.6 6.0 2009 28.9 17.3 7.2 13.3 Same caveats as before, plus the following: Some AutoCAD ...more »