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Microsoft Windows Vista Lab - Day TWO
Article By Marc Liron - Microsoft MVP
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Windows Vista... The morning kicked off with presentation on Windows Vista Deployment – by Mert Biyikli – Technology Architect (Microsoft Turkey). As someone who used to manage the deployment of Microsoft based computers in the enterprise the subject of automatic desk top roll out certainly caught my attention. Within the Windows Vista timeline the idea of a more robust way of deploying desktop images will be a reality! Microsoft are calling these new deployment scenarios "Lite Touch" and "Zero Touch". You can read more about the tools and methodology here in the Business Desktop Deployment guide.
Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) - The unified framework for building service-oriented applications on the Windows platform click here. You might find this useful too: http://wcf.netfx3.com Windows Workflow Foundation (WWF) - Extensible framework & API to build workflow centric products click here. You might find this useful too: http://wf.netfx3.com or catch the Windows Workflow Foundation Podcast here Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) - It provides developers and designers with a unified programming model for building rich Windows smart client user experiences that incorporate UI, media, and documents click here. You might find this useful too: http://wpf.netfx3.com Windows CardSpace
(formerly "InfoCard") - Trust via identity
click here. You might find this useful too:
http://wcs.netfx3.com
Vista Lab 2 Delegates
We heard Paul talk about how the developers where given a "clean slate" for this new version of office. No sitting down and adding new feature to existing code - this time it was going to be written from the bottom up. We discovered that Microsoft had used (with permission) the habits of existing Microsoft Office 2003 users to analyse what and how they used the software. Over 1.2 billion data sessions were collected! Now I understand why there is such a big change to the user interface... Heat maps in Excel 2007, Native 3D in PowerPoint 2007, Dynamic Image Insert in Word 2007 - I can't wait... # More Office 2007 resources here: Microsoft Office Enterprise
2007 Podcast
here.
One fact I learnt here was that the Microsoft Office software development team all use computers powered by AMD processors! That aside Chris gave a talk which certainly opened my eyes to AMD. I stopped using AMD based computers a few years ago but now I going to re-evaluate that decision... AMD are really pulling out all the stops to have AMD powered computers running Windows Vista. AMD have just launched AMD Live which certainly shows how serious they are about the multimedia experience and with the knowledge that there will be AMD Quad Core processors available in 2007 - that are optimized to run Windows Vista - Intel have certainly got some very serious competition. One nice surprise was that
Chris bought along one of the only available ACER 5000 laptops ever
to be seen in public ahead of their release on the 27th June. This
laptop was powered by the new AMD 64 Dual Core processor with a
15.4" screen and 1.3 Mega pixel web camera built-in... and was kept
in the hotel safe overnight!
Chris Aarons - AMD
After lunch (which was great!) the first presentation was Windows Vista Security – by Wole Moses – Regional Windows Client Solutions (Microsoft Turkey). Topics covered were: - Malware Mitigation Now this meeting was always going to be a "Hot Topic" but it sadly got hijacked for the first 20 minutes by a few attendees concerned over the way Microsoft are implementing one aspect of Windows Vista security - User Account Control. You can read more here. I for one am GLAD this is being implemented as it will be a great (and automatic) defence against Malware attacks. If you are a developer then
this Screencast on UAC is worth viewing
view here - Internet Protected Mode &
the Anti-Phishing Filter in IE7 & IE7+
more
here and
here The UAC team blog is
here Next up it was:
Microsoft Windows SideShow – by Chad Z
Hower – (Regional Developer Advisor Microsoft Middle East &
Africa). Imagine a keyboard that can display useful data from your computer or how about having useful information display on laptop lid when closed, on your TV? ...the possibilities are myriad. Read more about Windows SideShow here and here. Chad has a Blog here: http://blogs.msdn.com/czhower
The evening was then spent talking "tech" at a great Belgium restaurant called Lieve, this restaurant was decorated in Belgium Baroque - and when I am next in Amsterdam I will eat there again!
Marc @ the Lieve restaurant Conclusion This was a great follow-up to the Vista Lab 1 the previous July. Microsoft have made some impressive improvements with Beta 2 of Windows Vista. Now they are working on improving speed, compatibility and stability of the software I really look forward to testing the RC (Release Candidate) version when ready! ...back to Day One
I hope you found this article useful? Kind Regards
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