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Gates outlines Vista and vision of future computing

Brad Wardell   on 05 January 2006 - 03:24 · 25 comments & 11341 views

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Bill Gates highlighted Windows Vista as well as gives a vision on how personal computing technology will go in the future.

During his demo, Mr. Gates was able to integrate his information and data seamlessly across a cell phone, tablet PC, and his desktop PC that was connected to a 40 inch monitor that divided the display into 3 work areas.

During the upcoming announcements, Microsoft showed up the new Windows Media Player which is a lot cleaner than previous versions.  The next Windows Vista explorer provides a host of useful features for modifying data such as being able to crop and do basic editing on images without having to load a graphics editing package.

Internet Explorer 7 was shown off with its Firefox-like tabs but with some very interesting twists.

Much of the push on Windows Vista so far has highlighted a cleaner, faster, more polished look combined with a heavily revamped plumbing underneath.  GDI and the myriad of vulnerable networking APIs are gone and replaced with a new architecture.

Those who were worried that Vista was just Windows XP with a new look have nothing to fear, it's a very definite change for better.
 
I will be providing mini-blogs on this as well which you can read on Neowin and WinCustomize.com.
 
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(1 reply) #1 on 01 Jan 1970 - 00:00
#1.1 Frogboy on 05 Jan 2006 - 04:02
Very true. The old stuff is sitll there.

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