It’s that time of year again, when all the electonics manufacturers get together at CES to show off their new wares. Microsoft is busy at the show this year too, showing off some of the new capabilities of Windows Vista. Bringing Vista to life is a short but interesting video that shows off some of the features coming in Vista:
Be one of the first to see Windows Vista in use as Gates and Microsoft Group Product Manager Aaron Woodman show off the slick new OS during the 2006 Consumer Electronics Show.
Aaron shows the live previewing, Flip 3D application switching, the Sidebar with Gadgets, and the new Sideshow feature for notebooks. In another Microsoft video, Bill Gates shows off part of his vision for the digital future. It’s a very cool video – I love the screens!!
UPDATE: The blogosphere is buzzing about Bill Gates’ speech at CES. Watch the entire keynote online!
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I found the first part interesting… but the rest was more of stuff I’ve already scene – too Microsoft-fanboy-directed (and not much clapping from the press).
You’d think Bill would be able to correctly pronounce the names of other rich people… it’s J K Rowling (as in rowing boat without an S) not Roulings (as in ouch)
LOL, yeah, I don’t think it was his best speech! He seemed to stumble on a few of the words.
The Gates vs Ballmer Fight Nights match at the end was quite interesting!
I think by the time Beta 2 comes out, we’ll see some more new stuff. At least I hope we do!
I was wondering if they were doing an Ashley Simpson on the Fight Night, with some behind-the-scenes players.
I read Vista is feature-complete internally at MS with that being release to developers as the Feb CTP, and then debug all the way until release, i.e. no new features will be added that aren’t in there right now (although not necessarily all seen by developers yet). They may actually be going for stability.
Many people are bitter that they may not get to provide feedback on product features now because they weren’t in the communities that have access to MSDN, etc.
I’m not sure Ballmer would have thrown the controller if someone else had been playing!
The goal is to have Vista feature complete before the next release, but that doesn’t mean that changes can’t or won’t be made. That goes for feedback from Beta 2 as well.