Office 2010 to Make Itself Faster With Your GPU

[eddieroolz]

Good to see other companies jumping on GPGPU. I think the future does lie there.

No, I'm not a NV-trained bot.

 

[demonhorde665]

though as interesting as this is i'd rather see 3ds max actually use the gpu to render some instead of rending in cpu only and gpu just powering viewports, minus ray tracing nearly every redning technology in 3ds max (bump mapping , normal mapping , displacment mapping) is plausible on gpu's today since dx 11, at much greater rendering speed than what teh cpu can do i'd at elst liek to see 3ds max do all that rendering on then gpu and only use teh cpu for the ray tracing, which video cards stil cant do.

 

[Godfail]

[citation][nom]figgus[/nom]Sure looks to me like bullet points 2,3, and 5 will involve some client side rendering. Please explain how you think it doesn't?It might not be as intensive as the original creation, but there isn't much room for it to lean on most office machine GPUs. It won't take much of a requirement to get that content stuttering and skipping all over the place.[/citation]

You don't need your GPU to aid you in playing "high quality video" but editing it, certainly.

 

[manitoublack]

Had office 2010 for a while now (good old technet subscription) I still prefer Open office or office 2k3 because the new menu system introduced in office 2k7 still sucks 4 years on.

 

[Godfail]

[citation][nom]hellwig[/nom]Sorry if describing Microsoft's asinine decisions as "fricking stupid" was too subtle. That was my own comment, but I would think many people agree with me that some of the decisions Microsoft makes are pretty f*cking stupid.And back to my original point, writing an email with Word features in it and then sending it to someone is a dangerous prospect. That method MUST assume that the receiver is also using Outlook. That's fine when you're sending an email in-house, where everyone is on the same exchange server and everyone is using Outlook. That DOES NOT work when you send that email to someone outside the company that might be using Lotus Notes, Pine, Squirrel Mail, Yahoo, etc. (not that Pine or Squirrel understand HTML either).Besides, Word isn't being used to only create and render Word emails, it's being used render other emails too. If anything, Outlook should use IE, not Word to render HTML emails. Anyone who uses Word for HTML editing/rendering simply doesn't know what they are doing.I've run into many problems where word-based emails don't display properly in Outlook running Word (where else they could possibly display correctly I do not know). I've also had problems where I had to restart my computer because Outlook and Word are tied together, and an error in either one causes the other to crash (great when the Exchange server crashes and Outlook dies along with it, crashing that Word document I'd been working on for a while).As others have said, this is just Microsoft trying to tie their products together and force the world to live with the mediocrity above all else. I call it stupid. Like Microsoft Word is the world's premiere choice for email editing or something?[/citation]

This has been the case with Outlook for quite a long time so I'd say, YES, the world's premiere choice for email editing is Word - AND THEY DON'T EVEN KNOW IT!

If you're a web designer using Word, yeah, you don't know what you're doing. But Word is fully capable of rendering HTML - and Word emails will work with other email clients. It's really not as big of a deal as you're making it out to be...but you gotta stand for something, right? I'll worry about more important things than how Microsoft likes to create and render its email...especially if you're not even using it!

 

[builderbobftw]

Tax dedcuction here i come

 

[vsgm]

I hope PowerPoint will have some bad-ass effects! 8)
and I think GPU acceleration will be great for PowerPoint.

 

[vsgm]

[citation][nom]epkfaile[/nom]yes, a intel gma helping the video card. itll do so much right?[/citation]

GPU calculations are not that accurate as the CPU rite? (correct me if I'm wrong 😉)

 

[Guest]

Now what about electric consumption? these gpu's are not that power efficient like the cpus?

 

[mitch074]

I think this will simply make use of hardware acceleration for display when available, instead of always drawing stuff through GDI. Makes sense. I wonder why they didn't do that before, actually.

 

[jitpublisher]

Wow. It simply amazes me how many comments are tossed up here out of complete ignorance. Why is everyone suddenly all about "oh yeah this really going to speed up Word". Running "Word" and making a few Excel spreadsheets and attaching them to an email hardly makes you a power Office user, sorry. And if you don't need or use the features, so what? Some of us are looking forward to seeing where this goes.