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87-516: The Zune HD utilized the Nvidia Tegra APX 2600 chip, allowing it to play 720p video through the optional HDMI Zune dock on a high-definition television. Otherwise, content would be scaled down to 480×272 pixels on the player's OLED touchscreen . Soon after Apple released the iPod Touch , Microsoft R&D department head, Robbie Bach , began work on a touchscreen Zune player to combat it. The department started immediately on reworking

174-487: A dual-core ARM Cortex-A9 CPU, an ultra low power (ULP) GeForce GPU, a 32-bit memory controller with either LPDDR2-600 or DDR2-667 memory, a 32 KB/32 KB L1 cache per core and a shared 1 MB L2 cache. Tegra 2's Cortex A9 implementation does not include ARM's SIMD extension, NEON . There is a version of the Tegra 2 SoC supporting 3D displays; this SoC uses a higher clocked CPU and GPU. The Tegra 2 video decoder

261-545: A 4+1 configuration similar to Tegra 4, or Nvidia's 64-bit Project Denver dual-core processor as well as a Kepler graphics processing unit with support for Direct3D 12, OpenGL ES 3.1, CUDA 6.5, OpenGL 4.4 / OpenGL 4.5 , and Vulkan . Nvidia claims that it outperforms both the Xbox 360 and the PS3, whilst consuming significantly less power. Support Adaptive Scalable Texture Compression . In late April 2014, Nvidia shipped

348-624: A Tegra K1 based design derived from the template of the Nvidia Visual Computing Module (VCM) for driving the infotainment systems and providing visual driving aid in the respective vehicle models of that time. This news has, as of now, found no similar successor or other clear confirmation later on in any other place on such a combination of a multimedia with an auto pilot system for these vehicle models. Released in 2015, Nvidia's Tegra X1 (codenamed " Erista ") features two CPU clusters, one with four ARM Cortex-A57 cores and

435-529: A contact or start conversations. Additionally, a new Voice Clips feature allowed users to hold down F2 and record a message for a maximum of 15 seconds and send it to the recipient. The window for conversations was changed slightly with an added video button. This version also introduced the Windows Installer for its auto-update feature. As part of Microsoft's Windows Live effort, which rebranded many existing MSN services and programs, MSN Messenger

522-429: A drastic shift in direction towards platforms that provide vehicular automation with the applied " Nvidia Drive " brand name on reference boards and its semiconductors; and with the " Nvidia Jetson " brand name for boards adequate for AI applications within e.g. robots or drones, and for various smart high level automation purposes. The Tegra APX 2500 was announced on February 12, 2008. The Tegra 6xx product line

609-527: A fifth "companion" core in what Nvidia refers to as a "variable SMP architecture". While all cores are Cortex-A9s, the companion core is manufactured with a low-power silicon process. This core operates transparently to applications and is used to reduce power consumption when processing load is minimal. The main quad-core portion of the CPU powers off in these situations. Tegra 3 is the first Tegra release to support ARM's SIMD extension, NEON . The GPU in Tegra 3

696-439: A new Photo Sharing utility that allows contacts to quickly and easily browse photos together, and a "What's New" section at the bottom of the contact list to outline recent contact updates. Display pictures have been moved over to the left side of conversation windows, and new colorful borders appear around display pictures to display the current status of that contact. Milestone 3 is the first version of Windows Live Messenger to use

783-469: A public beta of Windows Live Messenger Wave 4 was released as part of the new Windows Live Essentials beta. A "beta refresh" of Windows Live Messenger Wave 4 was released on August 17, 2010, as part of an upgraded Windows Live Essentials beta. The final version of Windows Live Messenger 2011 (Wave 4) was released on September 30, 2010. On the same date, a version of Windows Live Messenger for Zune HD also became available. On June 14, 2012, Microsoft made

870-453: A removal of the custom sign-in sound feature however it is still possible to select a sound for other individuals, as well as changes to how the background image chosen is applied to the conversation windows. This build also included over 200 bug fixes including the "Custom Emoticon Bug" and saving of pictures when using the Photo sharing feature. On January 7, 2009, the same build was released as

957-621: A revamped interface which brings the "What's new" section of Windows Live to the new "social pane", similar to the way a social networking site presents updates. Among the new features are tabbed conversations, a redesign of the old emoticons, integration of Bing results, built-in video message support, HD video chat, in-line commenting of social updates, a new social photo viewer that supports commenting (for Facebook and SkyDrive photos), badges support, synchronized status updates, availability by categories, as well as integration with Facebook chat . However, several features had also been removed from

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1044-499: A security problem, all users of versions 8.1 and newer need to update to the latest version, 14.0.8089. The mandatory upgrade requirement would be fully phased in by late October 2009 and began on September 15, 2009. The first beta of Windows Live Messenger 8.5, Beta 1, was released on May 31, 2007. An update was released on June 21, 2007, to test updates being installed by Microsoft Update . This version required Windows XP SP2, compared to previous versions requiring Windows XP SP1. It

1131-523: A security vulnerability in versions of Messenger older than 8.1, that the released fix would resolve. This led to an auto-update being released to all older versions. Versions running on Windows 2000 and below were required to update to a new version of MSN Messenger 7.0, and versions running on Windows XP and above were required to update to Windows Live Messenger 8.1. On August 27, 2009, the Windows Live Messenger blog posted that due to

1218-566: A similar typography focused design. It uses a font family called "Zegoe", which is a modified version of Microsoft's font family, Segoe . Technology news website Gizmodo labeled the Zune HD's UI as "an evolution of the PMP—not a devolution of some smartphone model. Every new feature it has is used to expand the way you absorb media, from the HD video output to the HD radio to the redesigned UI." Prior to

1305-471: A software update. On April 5, 2010, after being announced at CES 2010 , firmware version 4.5 was released, bringing with it several new features, such as on-device Smart DJ (a feature that had been present in the PC software for some time), Xvid codec support, and Marketplace support through the optional dock. Less than one week later, on the 9th of April, a 64 GB capacity Zune HD went on sale; in addition,

1392-539: A successor to the Zune Marketplace. Leading up to the launch of that service, a number of features of Zune and the Zune Marketplace were discontinued. Zune HD apps were no longer available though the Zune Software , social components of Zune were deactivated, and limitations were placed on music video purchasing and viewing. As of late 2012, the ability to download songs from the marketplace directly to

1479-416: A text box, swiping up from the bottom bar of the browser and touching the address bar, or touching the magnifying glass (search) icon on the bottom bar of the browser. The keyboard has portrait orientation, with the keys bulging around the user's finger when touched. The web browser has pinch and stretch for zooming and page reorientation due to the built in accelerometer. The Zune HD web browser scores 5/100 in

1566-555: A video call, the Send button, some games (depending on your localization) and integration with Windows Contacts . Other features were replaced, such as Sharing Folders (replaced by integration with Windows Live SkyDrive) and background sharing (replaced by the "Scene" feature). On December 15, 2008, Windows Live Messenger 2009 RC (Build 14.0.8050.1202) was released together with the other Windows Live Wave 3 software applications, now renamed as Windows Live Essentials . This version saw

1653-411: A week later, Microsoft began sending out emails welcoming them to the Windows Live Messenger "9" beta program for the first release, known as Beta 0. A fan site for Windows Live Messenger, Mess.be, claimed to have a new build of Windows Live Messenger "9" on August 11, 2008, and published screenshots along with a brief summary of new features. The screenshots featured a new user interface design matching

1740-542: Is ISO 26262 -certified. In summer of 2012 Tesla Motors began shipping the Model S all electric, high performance sedan , which contains two NVIDIA Tegra 3D Visual Computing Modules (VCM). One VCM powers the 17-inch touchscreen infotainment system, and one drives the 12.3-inch all digital instrument cluster ." In March 2015, Nvidia announced the Tegra X1, the first SoC to have a graphics performance of 1 teraflop. At

1827-557: Is a system on a chip (SoC) series developed by Nvidia for mobile devices such as smartphones , personal digital assistants , and mobile Internet devices . The Tegra integrates an ARM architecture central processing unit (CPU), graphics processing unit (GPU), northbridge , southbridge , and memory controller onto one package. Early Tegra SoCs are designed as efficient multimedia processors. The Tegra-line evolved to emphasize performance for gaming and machine learning applications without sacrificing power efficiency, before taking

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1914-530: Is a recent feature of Windows Live Messenger 2011, and is a departure from the previous versions of Windows Live Messenger, where blocking a contact would prevent the "blockee" from sending the user any messages to the "blocker". With the "appear offline to" configuration currently implemented, "hidden from" users can still send "offline messages" to the target. Users can connect services such as Facebook , MySpace and LinkedIn using Windows Live Profile , and display their contact's Messenger social updates within

2001-496: Is an evolution of the Tegra 2 GPU, with 4 additional pixel shader units and higher clock frequency. It can also output video up to 2560×1600 resolution and supports 1080p MPEG-4 AVC/h.264 40 Mbit/s High-Profile, VC1-AP, and simpler forms of MPEG-4 such as DivX and Xvid. The Tegra 3 was released on November 9, 2011. Common features: Pixel shaders  : Vertex shaders  : Texture mapping units  : Render output units The Tegra 4 ( codenamed " Wayne ")

2088-576: Is interactive and supports full screen and slideshow modes, as well as viewing and uploading comments on Facebook and SkyDrive albums. It also supports people tagging for SkyDrive. The album viewer closely resembles the Microsoft Silverlight counterpart for web photo albums present on SkyDrive. Windows Live Messenger allows users to appear offline to particular individual contacts, as well as to an entire category within Windows Live Messenger, while appearing online to other contacts. This

2175-448: Is largely unchanged from the original Tegra and has limited support for HD formats. The lack of support for high-profile H.264 is particularly troublesome when using online video streaming services. Common features: Pixel shaders  : Vertex shaders  : Texture mapping units  : Render output units NVIDIA's Tegra 3 ( codenamed " Kal-El ") is functionally a SoC with a quad-core ARM Cortex-A9 MPCore CPU, but includes

2262-457: Is the ability to import and save/export instant messaging contacts to and from .CTT files. In late March 2010, a beta of Windows Live Essentials Wave 4 was leaked onto the internet and has since spread to various BitTorrent networks, which included a private beta build of Windows Live Messenger Wave 4. However, as the software was designed for private beta testing, non-beta testers cannot sign into this leaked build. The new software features

2349-583: The Acid3 test. As of the launch, the Zune HD's web browser does not support Adobe Flash applications, such as video playback on YouTube, and no plans have been made to bring Flash support to the device. With the 4.3 firmware update, browsing performance was improved, and users can change the Internet settings to display the browser optimized for a Mobile device or for a PC experience. In addition, users can now enable "auto correct" and "auto capitalize" when using

2436-513: The Launch Site feature was renamed to Fun & Games . MSN Messenger received a major upgrade to version 7.0 on April 7, 2005. This version brought wink features that were previously only available in threedegrees . This version also advertised items to sell to you including animated display pictures , emoticons and backgrounds. The contact list window style was also updated to match instant message windows. This version also introduced

2523-549: The Windows CE –based OS of the older Zune to suit the new multitouch PMP. Astro Studios was contracted to design the Zune HD's aluminium casing. On June 19, 2009, Zune Insider host Matt Akers confirmed that the Zune HD would have an Nvidia Tegra APX 2600 chip and OLED touchscreen. The Zune HD was released on September 15, 2009 to retail markets in black and platinum colors and 16 or 32 GB capacities; additionally, red-, green-, and blue-colored models were available through

2610-606: The Xbox Live Integration feature. This version also introduced digital ink and handwriting recognition support. It is the last version of MSN Messenger to support Windows 98, Windows Me and Windows 2000. The last version of MSN Messenger before the name change, version 7.5, was released August 23, 2005. New features included the Dynamic Backgrounds feature and the "msnim" protocol handler, which allowed Web sites to provide links which automatically add

2697-590: The " Wave 3 " design in development by Microsoft. The images were later removed by the site after a DMCA notice was received. The installer for the same build was leaked through private forums on August 23, 2008. It would later be discovered this build was a preview of Milestone 2, or M2. News web site LiveSide published an article on September 4, 2008, with screenshots of M2 of the newly minted "Windows Live Messenger 2009", which had become version 14.0 instead of 9.0 as previously expected. LiveSide summarized its new features, including protection against messaging spam ,

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2784-402: The "Jetson TK1" development board containing a Tegra K1 SoC and running Ubuntu Linux . Unified Shaders  : Texture mapping units  : Render output units ARM Large Physical Page Extension (LPAE) supports 1  TiB (2 bytes). The 8  GiB limitation is part-specific. In December 2015, the web page of wccftech.com published an article stating that Tesla is going to use

2871-493: The 16 GB and 32 GB models released in September 2009 both had a price drop of US$ 20 on their MSRPs . On October 3, 2011, Microsoft announced that it has discontinued all Zune hardware, encouraging users to transition to Windows Phone. While that announcement was initially removed as potentially erroneous, it was reposted permanently and confirmed by Microsoft soon thereafter. In 2012, Microsoft launched Xbox Music ,

2958-678: The Cortex-A57 cores (both clusters must be in the CC6 off state). Nvidia has removed the ARM Cortex-A53 cores from later versions of technical documentation, implying that they have been removed from the die. The Tegra X1 was found to be vulnerable to a Fault Injection (FI) voltage glitching attack, which allowed for arbitrary code execution and homebrew software on the devices it was implemented in. A revision (codenamed " Mariko ") with greater power efficiency, known officially as Tegra X1+

3045-555: The MSN/Windows Live Messenger functional again. The service is now provided under the name Escargot MSN . In addition to its basic functionality and general capability as an instant messaging client, the latest version of Windows Live Messenger offered the following features: Windows Live Messenger's album viewer is based on Windows Photo Gallery and provides users a photo viewing experience for photo albums shared via SkyDrive and Facebook. The album viewer

3132-506: The Messenger team had been working on multi-person audio/video chat, and they are also attempting to create interoperability with AIM / XMPP / ICQ . There is a basic internal version that works with XMPP already. However, these features were not seen in any versions of Windows Live Messenger 2009. Microsoft sent an invitation to participate in the Windows Live Messenger "9" beta program to Microsoft Connect members on November 20, 2007;

3219-724: The Nvidia Tegra 250, at Consumer Electronics Show 2010 . Nvidia primarily supports Android on Tegra 2, but booting other ARM-supporting operating systems is possible on devices where the bootloader is accessible. Tegra 2 support for the Ubuntu Linux distribution was also announced on the Nvidia developer forum. Nvidia announced the first quad-core SoC at the February 2011 Mobile World Congress event in Barcelona. Though

3306-552: The Tegra; however, the phone did not have an app store, so the Tegra's power did not provide much advantage. In September 2008, Nvidia and Opera Software announced that they would produce a version of the Opera 9.5 browser optimized for the Tegra on Windows Mobile and Windows CE . At Mobile World Congress 2009, Nvidia introduced its port of Google 's Android to the Tegra. On January 7, 2010, Nvidia officially announced and demonstrated its next generation Tegra system-on-a-chip,

3393-476: The Zune HD has been discontinued. According to the Zune Support Twitter feed, Microsoft will not be fixing it, instead announcing that it is part of the transition from Zune Music to Xbox Music. The specifications as listed by the official web site of the Zune HD, as well as reported by various sources: As of August 2011, the Zune Marketplace has 62 apps for Zune HD, of which 42 are games. All of

3480-440: The Zune HD, including portable versions of Audiosurf , Hexic , and Project Gotham Racing . Independent titles written with XNA are also available from multiple sources. On April 20, 2010, an independent app developer released a port of Doom , one of the first independent 3D games to be developed for the Zune HD, using OpenZDK . The browser features favorites and Bing search. The keyboard can be accessed by touching

3567-575: The Zune HD. The Windows Live Messenger app for the Zune HD was released on October 1, 2010, making Messenger available for all major mobile platforms. The email app was released for the Zune HD in April 2011 allowing users to sync with their email accounts and download folders and emails. The app is similar to the email interface on the Windows Phone . No new apps have been released for Zune HD after August 2011. Several games have been released for

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3654-486: The ability to stay signed into the application from several computers (referred to as "Multiple Points of Presence Support"), animated GIF files in the photo area, per-contact customized sounds for various user actions, and clickable URLs in the status area. Microsoft began the official beta program for Windows Live Messenger 2009 on September 17, 2008, when it released a new beta officially known as Windows Live Messenger 2009 Beta (Milestone 3, Build 14.0.5027.908), which

3741-542: The announcement event, Nvidia showed off Epic Games' Unreal Engine 4 "Elemental" demo, running on a Tegra X1. On October 20, 2016, Nvidia announced that the Nintendo Switch hybrid video game console will be powered by Tegra hardware. On March 15, 2017, TechInsights revealed the Nintendo Switch is powered by a custom Tegra X1 (model T210), with lower clockspeeds. The second generation Tegra SoC has

3828-548: The apps and games are free. Apps available excluding games are Calendar, Fingerpaint, Stopwatch, Alarm Clock, Chord Finder, Facebook, Twitter, MSN Money, MSN Weather, Calculator, Piano, Metronome, Level, Drum Machine, Fan Prediction, Shuffle by Album, Windows Live Messenger, Notes, Email and Zune Reader. An extension to the Microsoft XNA framework providing development support for the Zune HD was released on September 16, 2009. The Zune PC Software can be used for adding apps to

3915-478: The chip was codenamed Kal-El, it is now branded as Tegra 3. Early benchmark results show impressive gains over Tegra 2, and the chip was used in many of the tablets released in the second half of 2011. In January 2012, Nvidia announced that Audi had selected the Tegra 3 processor for its In-Vehicle Infotainment systems and digital instruments display. The processor will be integrated into Audi 's entire line of vehicles worldwide, beginning in 2013. The process

4002-475: The client is AIM and sends a message back to verify the client. Since then, the software has only allowed connections to its own service, requiring a Windows Live ID ( .NET Passport at that time) account to connect. Microsoft released the first major update, version 2.0 (2.0.0083), on November 16, 1999. It included a rotating advertising banner and the ability to customize the appearance of the chat window. It came as an install option for Windows Me . This version

4089-409: The client software was renamed from "MSN Messenger Service" to just "MSN Messenger", while the underlying service became known as " .NET Messenger Service ". This version was only compatible with Windows 95 , 98 , ME , NT 4.0 , and 2000 , because Microsoft provided a scaled-down new program for Windows XP , called Windows Messenger . Version 5.0 of MSN Messenger was released on October 24, 2002. It

4176-451: The comic book character Professor X , was announced on 28 September 2016, and by March 2019, it had been released. It contains 7 billion transistors and 8 custom ARMv8 cores, a Volta GPU with 512 CUDA cores, an open sourced TPU (Tensor Processing Unit) called DLA (Deep Learning Accelerator). It is able to encode and decode 8K Ultra HD (7680×4320). Users can configure operating modes at 10 W, 15 W, and 30 W TDP as needed and

4263-425: The contact list window. The second beta of version 8.0, Beta 2, was released on February 26, 2006. The overall theme of this version was improved, fixing and improving several smaller places in the program. Major changes and additions included the introduction of Windows Live Contacts , the reintroduction of single file transfer, improvements to the "Add a Contact" dialog box, improved color themes, minor changes in

4350-485: The contact list, and the display of these scenes in conversation windows for improved contact identification and window management. Milestone 3 also brings a new " Groups " feature that allows users to create a continuous group conversation between select contacts, newly redesigned status icons which now resemble small gems rather than the previous "Messenger Buddy" icons, a new default "Favorites" category in which you can place your favorite contacts for easy access to them,

4437-542: The conversation window, and revert of the "Busy" status icon back to the normal dash icon and a redesign of the log in page. The final beta version, Beta 3, was released on May 2, 2006. Major changes and additions included new icons for the program, PC-to-phone calling, an updated look for the Windows Live Call window, a new default display picture, the Windows Live Today window, improvements to

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4524-473: The conversation window, enabling users to hide the window frame and menu bar, and also the ability to change the theme color. The theme color could be set differently for each user. Another update, version 6.2, was released April 22, 2004, and it was the last version of the MSN Messenger 6 series. The most notable changes were a dedicated Mobile group for mobile contacts, a connection troubleshooter, and

4611-443: The die size is 350 mm . Nvidia confirmed the fabrication process to be 12 nm FinFET at CES 2018. (Model) (GHz) (MHz) Windows Live Messenger MSN Messenger (also known colloquially simply as MSN ), later rebranded as Windows Live Messenger , was a cross-platform instant-messaging client developed by Microsoft . It connected to the now-discontinued Microsoft Messenger service and, in later versions,

4698-635: The discontinuation email was only sent to one percent of Messenger users, a test group. On the same day, Microsoft announced its plans to phase out Messenger: the process would start on April 8, 2013, with English users and would end on April 30, 2013; Messenger would remain available in mainland China. According to ZDNet , this might only apply to the ability to sign in with Messenger client; Microsoft would keep its Messenger service running for another year. "Windows Live Messenger Upgrades to Skype", as they were referred to by Microsoft, started on April 8, 2013. This transition took place language by language. Brazil

4785-427: The discontinued services, MSN Messenger and Skype . Before the product was renamed Windows Live Messenger, it was named "MSN Messenger" from 1999 to 2006. During that time, Microsoft released seven major versions as follows. The first version of MSN Messenger Service, version 1.0 (1.0.0863), was released July 22, 1999. It included only basic features, such as plain text messaging and a simplistic contact list. When it

4872-487: The final version of Windows Live Messenger 2009. The last QFE update for Wave 3 was released on May 12, 2010, and saw the removal of some features from Windows Live Messenger. Specifically, the ability to independently show only your own webcam or your contacts' webcam (one way webcam) and without an audio call is gone. It is only possible to start a video call which starts the webcams of both people communicating, and which also automatically starts audio calling. Also removed

4959-485: The first quarter of 2013. According to Tony Bates (president of Skype Division at the time), Messenger users could sign into Skype using their Microsoft accounts , access their Messenger contacts and communicate as usual. On January 8, 2013, Microsoft emailed Messenger users and informed them that with the exception of mainland China , the Messenger service would stop working on March 15, 2013, and users would not be able to sign in. On February 15, 2013, ZDNet wrote

5046-510: The grouping of sequential messages from each contact, Rhapsody integration in the US, and an option for sounds to be edited and/or turned off and another redesign of the log in page, The official release of Windows Live Messenger version 8.0 was on June 19, 2006. Although no notable changes were made between Beta 3 and the final version, the change from MSN Messenger to Windows Live Messenger brought some additional changes, such as customization for

5133-516: The keyboard to enter information, making it easier to type content into the browser. With the 4.5 firmware update, browsing performance was further improved. In addition, Smart DJ playlists, Picks, expanded video codec support, and the ability to download photos and sort favorites by name and date were included in the update. The Zune HD was the forebear of Microsoft's typography-based design language , Metro which ultimately came to fruition with Windows Phone . The short-lived Kin phones also share

5220-522: The main menu allowing the association and editing of a phone number to the contact and allowing text messaging to a contact, a "sign out" button, a "report abuse" option in the help menu, interoperability with Yahoo! Messenger , and improvements to user status on Windows Vista A minor update, the Windows Live Messenger 8.1 Beta 1 Refresh, was released on December 13, 2006, and fixed bugs that were causing some people to be unable to sign in and others unable to see their contact list. The final version 8.1

5307-496: The nicknames of individual contacts, timestamps on messages, the ability to see a contact's name only once if the same person writes multiple messages in a row, and color schemes for the entire application. The main authentication system, Microsoft Passport Network , was replaced with Windows Live ID at the same time. A refresh to version 8.0 was released on August 10, 2006. It included audio and video improvements and fixed up minor bugs. The first update to Windows Live Messenger

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5394-620: The online Zune Originals store. Two months later, on November 6, 2009, firmware update 4.3 was released. The new firmware version improved the performance of the web browser, added support for the apps that were to be released in the days that followed, and fixed several notable bugs. On November 11, 2009, several new apps appeared on the Zune Marketplace . The apps included Project Gotham Racing : Ferrari Edition , Audiosurf: Tilt , Lucky Lanes Bowling , Vans Sk8: Pool Service , Checkers , and Piano . The Zune HD's Twitter app

5481-536: The other with four ARM Cortex-A53 cores, as well as a Maxwell -based graphics processing unit. It supports Adaptive Scalable Texture Compression . Only one cluster of cores can be active at once, with the cluster switch being handled by software on the BPMP-L. Devices utilizing the Tegra X1 have only been seen to utilize the cluster with the more powerful ARM Cortex-A57 cores. The other cluster with four ARM Cortex-A53 cores cannot be accessed without first powering down

5568-638: The previous version, such as the removal of display names, handwriting tool, one-way webcam requests and import/export of instant messaging contacts feature. The "Wave 4" release of Windows Live Essentials, which includes Messenger, also dropped compatibility with Windows XP and only runs on Windows Vista or Windows 7 . The new Windows Live Messenger for the iOS became available on the App Store on June 21, 2010, in addition to other mobile versions of Windows Live Messenger for Windows Phone , BlackBerry , and Symbian mobile platforms. On June 24, 2010,

5655-511: The product was discontinued, and Microsoft began cutting service to existing clients. It remained active in China for another 18 months and ceased operations there on October 31, 2014. In 2018, a free version of Microsoft Teams became available after years as a component of an Office 365 subscription. Teams inherited the Microsoft accounts architecture, allowing users to invite contacts from

5742-616: The release of the OpenZDK development kit, writing applications for the Zune required the use of Microsoft's XNA development environment. Instead of using XNA, developers can now write apps in C++ that run natively on the Zune, without the overhead of the XNA library. Developers can also access APIs previously used only by Microsoft, such as the 3D graphics and Internet APIs. Nvidia Tegra Tegra

5829-472: The service attracted over 330 million active users each month, placing it among the most widely used instant-messaging clients in the world. Following its acquisition of Skype Technologies in May 2011, Microsoft added interoperability between Skype and Microsoft accounts , allowing Skype—which had features unique to its platform and a wider user base—to communicate with Windows Live Messenger contacts. In 2013,

5916-454: The standard window frame on Windows Vista in accordance with the user experience guidelines. Several features were removed in version 9.0, however, such as the ability to use add-ins, the ability to transfer files when the recipient is signed in as offline, the "Be right back", "Out to lunch", and "In a call" status options, the Go to my space button, the ability to adjust webcam settings during

6003-639: The update from 2009 to 2011 mandatory for those using Windows Vista or 7. 2009 continues to be usable for those still running XP. This can be circumvented by running Windows Live Messenger in Windows XP compatibility mode, thus making it believe it is running on Windows XP. On August 7, 2012, Microsoft delivered a new version of the Windows Essentials 2012 suite, which includes Windows Live Messenger 2012. On November 6, 2012, Microsoft announced that Messenger and Skype services would merge in

6090-694: Was announced on February 19, 2013. With hardware support for the same audio and video formats, but using Cortex-A9 cores instead of Cortex-A15, the Tegra ;4i is a low-power variant of the Tegra 4 and is designed for phones and tablets. Unlike its Tegra 4 counterpart, the Tegra 4i also integrates the Icera  i500 LTE / HSPA+ baseband processor onto the same die. Common features: Pixel shaders  : Vertex shaders  : Pixel pipelines (pairs 1x TMU and 1x ROP) Nvidia 's Tegra K1 (codenamed " Logan ") features ARM Cortex-A15 cores in

6177-581: Was announced on January 6, 2013, and is a SoC with a quad-core CPU, but includes a fifth low-power Cortex A15 companion core which is invisible to the OS and performs background tasks to save power. This power-saving configuration is referred to as "variable SMP architecture" and operates like the similar configuration in Tegra 3. The GeForce GPU in Tegra 4 is again an evolution of its predecessors. However, numerous feature additions and efficiency improvements were implemented. The number of processing resources

6264-554: Was compatible with Yahoo! Messenger and Facebook Messenger . The service was discontinued in 2013 and was replaced by Skype . The client was first released as MSN Messenger Service on July 22, 1999, and was marketed under the MSN brand until 2005, when it was rebranded under the Windows Live name. It has since been officially known by the latter name, although its first name remained in common use. In June 2009, Microsoft reported

6351-759: Was dramatically increased, and clock rate increased as well. In 3D tests, the Tegra 4 GPU is typically several times faster than that of Tegra 3. Additionally, the Tegra 4 video processor has full support for hardware decoding and encoding of WebM video (up to 1080p 60 Mbit/s @ 60fps). Along with Tegra 4, Nvidia also introduced i500, an optional software modem based on Nvidia's acquisition of Icera , which can be reprogrammed to support new network standards. It supports category 3 (100 Mbit/s) LTE but will later be updated to Category 4 (150 Mbit/s). Common features: Pixel shaders  : Vertex shaders  : Pixel pipelines (pairs 1x TMU and 1x ROP) The Tegra 4i ( codenamed " Grey ")

6438-498: Was first released, it featured support for access to America Online 's AIM network. America Online continually tried to block Microsoft from having access to their service until eventually the feature was removed, and it has not re-surfaced in any later versions of the software. AOL did this by exploiting a buffer overflow bug in AIM, which causes it to execute a bit of machine code sent by the server. When this code runs, it determines if

6525-463: Was followed the next year by version 3.0 (3.0.0080), which was released May 29, 2000. It included file transfers and PC-to-PC and PC-to-phone audio capabilities with Net2Phone and Callserve, two of the larger VoIP providers. Along with the release of Windows XP came version 4.6 of MSN Messenger, on October 23, 2001. It included major changes to the user interface, the ability to group contacts, and support for voice conversations. In this version,

6612-599: Was made available to the general public as a free download. The ability to submit feedback, however, was restricted to select participants of the Microsoft Connect closed beta program. Notable changes in Milestone 3 include a new revamped and refined user interface to follow suit with the rest of the Windows Live "Wave 3" design, the ability to set a "Scene" by customizing the background image and color of

6699-424: Was previewed on October 30, 2006, with the release of Beta 1 of version 8.1. No major changes were made, but several minor changes were included. These include the addition of the roaming identity feature (so that the same user's display name and picture would appear on any computer), a new contact card appearance, a "recently used" list for the emoticon, wink, display picture and background menus, an SMS phone book in

6786-1118: Was released in 2019, fixing the Fusée Gelée exploit. It's also known as T214 and T210B01. TM670D-A1 TM670M-A2 TM671D-A2 TM675M-A1 CPU frequency may be clocked differently than the maximum validated by Nvidia at the OEM's discretion Unified Shaders  : Texture mapping units  : Render output units Maximum validated amount of memory, implementation is board specific Maximum validated memory bandwidth, implementation is board specific Nvidia's Tegra X2 (codenamed " Parker ") features Nvidia's own custom general-purpose ARMv8-compatible core Denver 2 as well as code-named Pascal graphics processing core with GPGPU support. The chips are made using FinFET process technology using TSMC 's 16 nm FinFET+ manufacturing process. Unified Shaders  : Texture mapping units  : Render output units (SM count) The Xavier Tegra SoC, named after

6873-568: Was released on December 16, 2009 to the Zune Marketplace; however, it was soon noticed that the app was censoring tweets. Microsoft promptly fixed this following an outcry among Zune HD owners in version 1.1 of the app. After previously being promised before the end of 2009, the Facebook app was made available on the Zune Marketplace on March 1, 2010. Initially, the app had some API issues in which it could not download most information from Facebook, but these issues were corrected 2 days later without

6960-462: Was released on January 29, 2007. No changes were made from the Beta 1 Refresh. All versions of Windows Live Messenger below version 8.1 were rendered obsolete on September 12, 2007, due to a security issue identified when a user accepts a webcam or video chat invitation from an attacker. On September 12, 2007, the Windows Live Messenger blog posted a fix that resolved a security problem. It reported of

7047-488: Was released on November 6, 2007, and it introduced no major changes. Windows Live Messenger 2009 was originally designated version 9.0, it was later assigned the technical version number 14.0, in order to be unified with the other Windows Live programs and Microsoft Office programs. In a presentation to the Georgia Institute of Technology's IEEE Student Branch, Microsoft employee Andrew Jenks reported that

7134-454: Was released on September 5, 2007. Several issues were fixed in Beta 2, but no significant changes were applied. Compared with the first beta, the build does not say "Beta" on the top of the window, although developers had noted that it was not the final release. The new Windows Live Installer , which is used to install Windows Live Messenger 8.5 Beta 2, does not run on Windows Server 2003. The final release of Windows Live Messenger version 8.5

7221-426: Was renamed "Windows Live Messenger" beginning with version 8.0. The first beta of the newly renamed Windows Live Messenger, Beta 1, was released on December 13, 2005. Major changes and additions included offline messaging, an option to change the color theme of the windows, separated send and search boxes, a word wheel search box in the main window, and additional details for contacts when hovering over their names in

7308-516: Was revealed on June 2, 2008, and the APX 2600 was announced in February 2009. The APX chips were designed for smartphones, while the Tegra 600 and 650 chips were intended for smartbooks and mobile Internet devices (MID). The first product to use the Tegra was Microsoft 's Zune HD media player in September 2009, followed by the Samsung M1. Microsoft's Kin was the first cellular phone to use

7395-567: Was the first version that was allowed to be installed along with Windows Messenger on Windows XP. It included UPnP (Universal Plug and Play) based file transfers, minor changes to the user interface artwork, and a Windows Media Player interface plug-in. Version 6.0 of MSN Messenger was released July 17, 2003. MSN Messenger 6.0 was a major overhaul of the whole platform, upgrading its simple text-based interface to include customizable elements such as emoticons, personalized avatars, and backgrounds. An update, version 6.1, focused on improvements to

7482-679: Was the first version to be installed in a "Windows Live" folder under "Program Files", with the shortcuts placed in a "Windows Live" folder in the Start Menu . Major changes and additions in Beta 1 included a new installation program in conjunction with the release of Windows Live 2.0 , a new look for all of its windows that matches the aesthetic styles of Windows Vista, a new "bunny" emoticon, and integration with Windows Live OneCare Family Safety . Beginning with this version, updates could be downloaded and installed through Microsoft Update . The second beta of Windows Live Messenger 8.5, Beta 2,

7569-461: Was the last country to be "upgraded", on April 30. Chinese Messenger users received an email from Microsoft in August 2014, containing an announcement that Messenger service in China would end on October 31, 2014; users were advised to migrate to Skype and receive free credits. In 2017 a number of developers managed to reverse engineer the Messenger protocol and designed custom servers that make

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