Sorry, no pictures today – I had to leave the camera back at the hotel for charging   Go find the live stream.

First off: Ray Ozzie

Yesterday: computing foundation

Today: User Interface

Front-end innovation – client OS – personal computing

PC – Phone – Web

* Full and high-performance access to displays & paripherals
* Natural UI & common controlsfor ink voice/audio, camera, touch, …
* Local data privacy, portability, reliable/fast/full access
* Use & recombine applications, data, documents, media as needed
* A ‘personal’ enviropnment, trusted & assumed to be under your control

Web:
* one common way to find, access, assemble & interact with people
* One common way to find, access, share & transact information
…

Phone:
* As the PC, full and high-performance access to displays & peripherals
* As the PC, natural UI & common controls for ink, voice/audio, camera, touch…
* Always with you, and within arm’s reach…
…

PC: Windows 7 – Windows Vista, Windows XP
Continue to evolve the .NET framework and DirectX

Next: Steven Sinofsky, Senior VP

Welcome to Windows 7

1. introduce windows 7 client
2. software + services
3. transition from Vista
4. APIs
5. Fundamentals
6. Path to RTM
7. Call to Action

* Personalized experience
* Connect to devices and storages
* Bring together all the “stuff”

Demo: Julie Larson-Green, VP, Windows Experience

Hmm, looks quite cool – a new UI paradigm…

Cool new Task bar

Window snapping

Windows Explorer – Library locations

Networking at home: HomeGroup – plug’n’play connecting to everything in your home network

New Media player – including a lightweight version – super easy to play on other devices in the home

Mobile Devices – new device center

Gadgets – can be placed everywhere

New theming functionality – Pimp your desktop

System tray (notification area): user has full control over the items & notifications

Touch: HP TouchSmart (sub $2000 machine avail. today)
25% more space between item when using touch.

Multi-touch! Zoom etc.!

Easy on-screen keyboard with predictive typing

Flicks & gestures in IE8

Refresh of MS Paint, Calculator etc. etc.

Drag & drop.

Windows 7 + Windows Live Essentials & Windows Live Services
Software + Services

Transition from Windows Vista
* Windows Server 2008 and Windows Vista SP1
* Ecosystem Readiness
   * Standards
     * Compability
      * Scenarios

Develop for Windows 7
* Ribbon User Interface
* Jump Lists
* Multi-Touch, Ink, Speech
* DirectX family

Fundamentals
Decrease
* Memory
   Reference set, Graphics
* Disk I/O
   Registry Reads, Indexer
* Power
  DVD Playback, Panel, Timers

Increase
* Speed
   Faster Boot, Device Ready
* Responsiveness
   Start menu, Taskbar
* Scale
   256 processors

Demo Windows Development Environment (Steve S, Senior VP)

Bitlocker encryption on usb sticks!

Manage and create VHDs from the Disk Management Tool – at last.

Mount them directly! – Point the boot manager to a VHD and boot from it!

High DPI – managing multiple monitors – enhanced experience.

New Screen Magnifier – Windows Key + + key! (- for zoom out)

Windows key + P: Change output (display / projector type) – Dual projectors

Remote desktop into computers with multiple desktops – AT LAST!

Customize the task bar and shutdown buttons

Pre-beta available today – beta early next year

Call to Action
1. Install and use Windows 7 pre-beta
2. Develop for 64-bit
3. Focus on Fundamentals in Your Code
4. Integrate with Windows 7 Desktop
5. Evaluate New APIs in Windows 7
6. Code to Web Standards with Internet Explorer 8
7. Download Windows Live Beta @ download.live.com

Next up: Corp. Vice President Scott Guthrie

Windows 7 Client Development

Yin/Yang with .NET / Win32

Focus on interop – combine managed and unmanaged code

Walktrough  – Autodesk case – Mudbox and AutoCAD 2009

Windows 7 Applications with Win32/C++

* New Windows 7 APIs
** Ribbon, Jump Lists, Libraries, Multi-touch, DirectX and more

* MFC for Windows 7
** Ribbon, Multi-touch. …

…

Windows Applications With .NET

.NET 3.5 SP1 Improvements
** Streamlined Setup
** Start Up Performance
** Graphics Improvements
** DirectX/Direct3D Interoperability
** More Controls

* Also built into Windows 7

ScottGu: Demo: Building a windows 7 Application with .NET

PhotoSuru – Photo album app (oh, not another one… – cool though)

This week MS will ship a new WPF Ribbon Control!

<WPF:RibbonWindow> ftw.

Jumplists – custom contextualized tasks on the task bar items.

Multi-touch: Easily handle multi-touch and gesture events in WPF.

DataGrid, DatePicker, Calendar, Ribbon, Visual State Manager controls

Windows Applications with .NET 4

* WPF improvements
** Multi-touch, deep zoom, visual state manager, text
* Fundamentals and interop
** In-prcess side by side support
** Managed / native code interop
** Dynamic Language support
** Extensible component model
* Improved tooling with Visual Studio 2010

Visual Studio 2010 Built On WPF !!!

Multi-monitor support – richer code visualization. Better TDD support, Managed Extensibility Framework

Demo: Visual Studio 2010 Extensibility

ScottGu’ru – MEF extensibility is a blast in VS2010!!!

.NET Client Momentum
Customer demo – Next Generation Grocery Shopping – Tesco.com

Nick Lansley – Head of New Technlogoy tesco.com

Back to the Gu:
jQuery support in VS2008

ASP.NET 4 Improvements
* Web Forms
* MVC
* AJAX
* Distributed Caching

VS2010 for web development
* Code focused improvements
* JavaScript / AJAX tooling
* Design View CSS2 support
* Publishing and deployment

Multiple configurations (web.config) for dev, test & prod in the project!

Announcing the Silverlight Toolkit

* Charting
* TreeView
* DockPanel
* WrapPanel
* ViewBox
* Expander
* AutoComplete
* …
MS-Pl licensed.

Silverlight Designer in VS2010!

Next: David Treadwell, Corp Vice President – Live  Platform

Live Services

Identity – Directory – Communication and Presence – Search and Geospatial

* Access A User’s Social Graph
* Easy Integration and Interoperability
* Leverages Familiar Services

Yawn! This guy should work on his speaking skills…

Announcing the Live Framework

Building applications for the Mesh / Live Services

* Provides Consistency
* Open and Interoperable
* Supports PC, Phone and Web

Demo: Enchancing a Windows Application
with Live Framework

Ori Amiga – Group Program Manager – Live Services

[Ori is a cool guy Loved his Channel9 casts…]

HAHA – This is *the* bomb! Great stuff! As expected…

Takeshi Numoto – Office 14

Office 14 will deliver both web and desktop apps.

Demo

OneNote 14 – Digital Notetaking app.

Office in the browser looks cool – Ribbon and all.

Ray Ozzie back on the scene – bringing it together.

Next up: Don Box & Chris An – this day will truly be EPIC! If just someone could bring me some food!