Bill Gates CES keynote summary
The future is gadgety!
Wednesday, January 4, 2006 by Frogboy | Discussion: Personal Computing
Tonight Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates presented the keynote address here at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas. WinCustomize.com is there in the press room blogging live from the event right now!
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.
Keep an eye on the coverage in the Articles tab here on WinCustomize.com
Reply #2 Thursday, January 5, 2006 7:24 AM
Thanks for the updates. Can you find out why I wasn't invited to the Vista beta? It must have been a mistake.
Reply #3 Thursday, January 5, 2006 8:42 AM
Is this really a good thing? I can understand how being able to edit a photo from Explorer simplifies things from a User's point-of-view, but I'd worry that Explorer becomes the "Everything but the kitchen sink"-splorer: Able to do a lot of things, but none of them very well. There's difference between building functionality into a product, and building the product such that it can be extended (though other external packages) to provide functionaility.
Reply #4 Thursday, January 5, 2006 10:50 AM
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Reply #1 Wednesday, January 4, 2006 10:47 PM