I don't remember that part, but it is a dev build, not even beta. I thought the part where Steve was longing for the 'bing' app and she said, 'skip it' which I thought was pretty funny. Having been involved in a demo once where one of the parts broke the day before the demo and we had to step past it I fully sympathized. :)
The memory foot print part was demo'd on the same netbook that Steve Sinosky used to demo/introduce Windows 7 a few years ago. Much of it's strength is the flexibility of the new interface with the availability of the old desktop style desktop for those situations where it makes sense (power users, corporations, etc). The cross section of processers that it will be available for make me wonder if new metro style apps that will be portable to the new xbox this fall. They did some demo's and show portability to the Windows Phone and several things (compiled right) will run on the phone and xbox. Apps written in xaml, html, javascript will run across all cpu platforms, they will provide tools to cross compile other code bases across cpu architectures. One of the demo's tried to boot with a boot sector virus on a USB stick, the system had UFEI which stopped the boot. They had various hw demo's as well. (insane start and shutdown). I liked one 'extreme system' with 3 nvidia's in SLI and water cooled :). Their emphasis was that all native code would take advantage of hardware grapics accelleration by default. Best joke while demo'ing the the metro IE10, "Nothing better then a chrome free browsing experience". Support for acceleromers, magnatrometer, NFC. A lot of what they seem to be doing is about exposing one apps tools and capabilities to other apps on the system. Much like the Windows Phone does. They were seriously into 'stickiness' and wasted no opertunity to show how responsive the touch UI was. 3 of the ultrabook models Intel is pimping lately. (Asus, Acer, Toshiba) They made people really happy with the mention of 5000 Samsung slates to hand out. These things look like my wife's next system. That or something remarkably like it when it's real production for us normal people :) They've improved the old desktop where wallpaper will finally stretch across dual monitors. Run metro on one and regular desktop on the other, etc. Task manager much improved. They added an App History tab, a 'startup tab (start up porgrams listed centrally in task manager) Task bar improved as well. They talked about new 'recovery' environment. Resest and refresh. - Files and personalization will not change but system defaults will be refreshed Reset your PC and start over - nukes files and apps and restarts the system to 'out of box experience' -mentioned additional tools to set the baseline image. They showed the Remote Desktop client - it goes to the Start screen to the other system and it brings your 'screen capabilities with it (i.e. your system has touch screen, the other doesn't) HyperV on the desktop Mounting ISO's into file system They went through keyboard shortcuts to show us they are still with us then did a multi-finger html5 browser demo. Some remote access capabilities crossing 'the cloud' and accessing your home or work systems depending on firewall configuration. This was with a windows live ID. New Windows Live applications as well. The presentation was 3 and 1/2 hours. It was full of overview information. I am seriously looking forward to it's evolution and the release next year. Steven Peck http://www.blkmtn.org On Tue, Sep 13, 2011 at 7:53 PM, Sam Cayze <[email protected]> wrote: > I quit watching when she couldn't get IE working and had to change > machines... I lol'd. > But seriously, there is some cool stuff going on in Windows 8 so far. I > was > really impressed. > The memory footprint is smaller, the boot times are insane... > > -----Original Message----- > From: Ben Scott [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Tuesday, September 13, 2011 9:35 PM > To: NT System Admin Issues > Subject: Re: Windows 8 dev preview video > > On Tue, Sep 13, 2011 at 6:26 PM, Steve Ens <[email protected]> wrote: > > I streamed it today. Pretty impressive.... > > Oh? Do tell. > > -- Ben > > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ > <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ > > --- > To manage subscriptions click here: > http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ > or send an email to [email protected] > with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin > > > > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ > ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ > > --- > To manage subscriptions click here: > http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ > or send an email to [email protected] > with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin > > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to [email protected] with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
