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Monaco - Microsoft's version of GarageBand?
by Victor Agreda, Jr. Apr 10th 2006
You mean Microsoft isn't
going to quit making iLife-style apps just because Macs can boot into Windows? Well, I doubt Windows Movie Maker is
going anywhere. And Max, Vista's photo application, is set to be a major
selling point to the consumers out there. So I can only think Monaco, or Vista's answer to GarageBand, will
also be at least a bullet point on the back of the box (which box remains a question).
There's a heated discussion on this topic over at ArsTecnica's M-Dollar. One comment to note:
Microsoft set out to dominate the office, which they did. Apple set out to dominate the creative studio, which they
did. Now we see each traveling to the other corner of the ring (Apple's got rack-mountable servers, a true server OS,
and iWork for what its worth), what will be the result? I can't wait to see the Monaco interface. I have been intrigued
with Max, and it'll be interesting to see what Vista technologies are leveraged by Monaco in a similar fashion. So far
not enough details have emerged about Monaco to make a call... Let the Studio battle begin!
So, just how good at time waster games are you? Think you've got the stuff? Well, The World's Hardest Game 2.0 doesn't think you do.
Yes, amazingly, it's possible to have a sequel to a game called "The World's Hardest Game". It doesn't seem logically possible, since if the first one was actually the world's hardest, how could another one come along and share the moniker? It made me doubt the name in the first place. That is, until I tried the game.
The mechanics of the game are very simple. You are a small red square, ...
