[PDC'05] Blogging on Windows Vista

Wednesday, September 14, 2005

PDC'05

Just had a great breakfast. Amazingly large selection of weird cereals. We all laughed when my buddy Jan-Erik opened his "TRIX - Fruity Sweetened Corn Puffs!" pack. Looked more like a box of candy than breakfast cereal to me :)

Atm I'm standing in the Windows Vista Internet Alley, where they have set up hundreds of machines running Windows Vista (build 5219). The user experience is just great, lots of animations and stuff. In the future when coding for the WinFX platform I think you have to be a bit careful to not just add all of these moving and zooming stuff just because it is easy to do it. But it is cool, I must admit. Everything got a kind of soft touch to it. I wonder what kind of graphics hardware you need to run Vista graphics in optimal speed. No wonder ATI is platinum sponsor of the PDC event :D

One of the things that drew the longest run of applause was probably when Jim Allchin (I think it was) jacked a standard USB memory into the Vista box and it got recognized as internal memory! Time to dig out all my stray USB memory sticks and get them to use, my laptop will look like a christmas tree, USB mems sticking out in every socket ;)

Off to the next general session now with Eric Rudder and Steven Sinofsky.

One thing I just noticed what that the rich text editor in .Text doesn't load up in IE 7

2 Comments

uhhh is that for real??!!!!!

you can use USB memory as internal memory? WTF?

David - Wednesday, September 14, 2005 3:25:00 PM

Yupp, they showed that on a live demo. Quote: 'just stick an USB memory stick, any USB memory, and Vista will use it as internal memory'. It's weird, but cool.

Johan - Thursday, September 15, 2005 3:01:00 PM

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