PDC05 - Day 1 keynote

WOW!. Such a nonstop high energy event with a ton of demos and details on Windows Vista and Office 12. The keynote was visi ble to the outside world but the Bill video was blocked - anyone have a link for that video to share with those that missed it?

Someone had to have been there with a webcam on a laptop and recorded it.

A lot of detail on Windows Vista, and everything was working on it including the Office 12 demos.

  • Windows Vista brings back the Sidebar and its sticky visual objects called gadgets (like something, a clock, something else), which were dragged onto the desktop and funtioned there also
  • With the news articles and issues around Microsoft trying to take over RSS, it was used by everyone from Bill Gates down - RSS this, RSS in Windows Vista at the a low level, RSS working in Office 12, Internet Explorer continuing to grow its support - but the phrase was RSS not a different brand name
  • A new tabbing feature taking advantage of the preview function and as users and applications expand on it - the additional attributes of files for faster nd deeper search and preview - Gone is the tabbing between application look were everything is just a Word icon
  • A demo of features on the Windows Presentation Foundation and ASP.NET 2.0 which I would expect to be covered in more detail the rest of the PDC
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