Scott Hanselman

* Dynamic folder views ala "Office 2003 Search Folders" - built into explorer.  He's viewing 1100 items with no slow down.
* Showing "stacks" that are views of data that are spread all over the system.  Smacks of HyperCard.  These stacks are dynamic based on WinFS metadata.
* Aero - click on a person and "view communication history" and query the metadata within WinFS to get all files related to communicating with that person.
* Aero - Common Dialogs for PEOPLE.  The system knows that people are unique.
* Presence info built into the Aero experience. 
* Lots of Transparency on all nonclient areas of windows. 
* My opinion: The UI look really IS distinct and different than Mac's Jaguar.  I honestly wouldn't have thought it possible.  It's an extraordinarily clean look.  I wonder how hard it is to do the gratuitous animations.
Scott Hanselman - Corillian Corp
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* Hillell Cooperman - Group Program Manager talking about Avalon.
* He ran Visicalc under Longhorn - "a 20 year commitment to compatibility!"
* "Any one here blogging? Who will be first to blog this?"

Uh, me? ;)

Scott Hanselman - Corillian Corp
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* Fantastic Video "Behind the Technology" ala VH1's Behind the Music.  Destined to become a classic.  Hopefully it will get posted soon!  They appear to have gotten the ACTUAL VH1 announcer.  Also, it included Puff Daddy, Anthony Michael Hall, Bill Clinton, Warren Buffet, the Meet the Press guy, the Pets.com puppet, and John Sculley (Apple Newton launcher).
* "Peer to Peer is very important."
* Informtation has been stored in binary streams - in hierarchical silos. "We haven't gone beyond the clipboard to structure information."
* Information Agents - needs to be built into the platform.  "Every application tries to be on top and put up its toast.". (A reference to the "little blue toast" popup that Messenger uses to inform the user of presence chnages.)
* "A 26" LCD will cost only $500 in 3-5 years."
* Longhorn: It's all about Avalon (new GDI), WinFS (Metadata/Unified Storage), Indigo (Communication system)
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* Dr. Watson matters.  We've changed our relationship witht the video driver people...many drivers were lousy, we used crash data to improve drivers
* Hardware in 2006
  4-6 Ghz - 2 cores
  2 GB RAM
  1 TB disk
  GPU 3x today
  1Gb network, 54Mb wireless
* NGSCB - Next Generation Secure Computing Base
* Always on...both your PC and your 'net connection
* Software is the limitation now, not the hardwarw, not the network, not the processor
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* They showed the Red vs. Blue Halo video
* "Working Smarter AND Harder"
* BillG out on stage.
* Record signup and turnout for PDC
* '92 32-bit PDC
* '96 Internet PDC
* '00 .NET PDC
* This is the decade where digital devices will play a deep role in our lives.  This next wave is being driven forward.
* Microsoft R&D budget $6.8B
* People are more concerned about the number of moving parts in a system
* Trustworthy Computing - password over time will NOT be adequate
* WindowsXP SP2 - firewall on by default..."Enhanced memory protection"

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