Hello Steven, Thanks Steve.
Tuesday, September 13, 2011, 11:22:21 PM, you wrote: > 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 -- Regards, joeuser - Still looking for the 'any' key... "...now these points of data make a beautiful line..." ~ 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
