The marketing wheel for Windows Vista is starting to roll. For the few of you who don’t know anything about it, Windows Vista will be the equivalent of what Mac OS X was to Mac OS 9. It will be huge upgrade from the inside out With lots of nee technologies at the core system level that are meant to make Windows more Pro-Creative friendly.
Just so you get an idea f the magnitude of Vista, a few months ago I got an email from a friend of mine who’s in the industry. A few things where left out per his request, but here’s most of it. He’s a Mac user.
Trusted designer / developer extended family -
The user experience tides are turning…
I just returned from a 3 day stint with Microsoft. Microsoft just held their soft launch for upcoming Vista related technologies and what a show/showing it was!
The only thing I can compare my feelings during / after the Mix event to, would be the first time I saw Shockwave debuted at WebInnovation back in 1995! This is a serious disruptive point in our lives – all very very exciting…
// Key takeaways which will impact all of us in the community include:
- Microsoft spent 3 million dollars on the event / 1 million a day
- Microsoft flipped the airfare / hotel bills for the top Flash designer and developer community within the US / EU (+20 or so folk) to attend the event
- Adobe really has it’s work cut out for them to keep Flash/Flex competitive, Microsoft’s technology appears to be superior
- Atlas is quite robust and does everything and more Flex can dish out…
- Microsoft stated they will have 1 billion (total) devices (including mobile) WPF – WPF/E enabled in 2 years time; 600 million will be WPF (Full) enabled with GPU capabilities
- Microsoft will not ship WPF – WPF/E unless the Mac client is ready to go simultaneously
- Microsoft will have CTP ready by end of Q2 ’06
- CTP estimated size for WPF 1.2 megs, but will grow larger with video / 3D support
- Microsoft committed to a Linux port of WPF/E and will have it ready by Q2 ’07 (3rd parties to develop)
- Microsoft WPF (Full) – very impressive, both technologically and aesthetically; BBC Demo
- Microsoft publicly stated IE will have core engine support for SVG in IE7.x (most likely 7.2)
(power point presentation); they are currently working with Firefox, and others to ensure version / profile rolling compatibility
- Good lecture on user experience design for the Ten Foot UI (power point presentation)
- Expression tools not quite there yet, but Microsoft has finally done a good job in getting them usable for the creative pro market
Link: seewindowsvista.com
Link: Windows Vista on Flickr
Link: Visual Tour: 20 Things You Won’t Like About Windows Vista
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Wow, so IE7 will be getting SVG support, lets hope they don’t stuff it up.
Note that he said IE7.x, not IE7. This is the first I’ve heard of IE7.2 though. Exciting stuff!
_no_
vista is the continuity of XP and .net
os X was a TOTAL wipe of os9 (with just a “carbon” api to be compatible with old os9 application and “classic” virtual machine)
os9 drop the old system to an UNIX. not a new generation of os9 technology
it was as to drop win 3.1 for Vista (or at least xp + .NET)
in the drop of os9 apple get objective-C/cocoa and Java as main language. not one but TWO totally new api.
in fact apple drop an old os for a new. it could have be linux or freebsd, it would be the same shock.
and they ported some cool stuff os os9 (applescript, quicktime and some others) and take ALL of nextstep.
I want to emphasize that : _no_, vista is not a revolution of XP. vista is like osX 10.1 to 10.3 (core image and 3D stuff)
Actually, I did not state that IE7.X will have SVG support. I did say that I think SVG is gaining momentum as part of the interoperable web standards platform, and as such I expect we will add support for it in the future.
As for “IE7.2″ – I have not heard anyone inside or outside Microsoft say that, certainly not me. It’s a myth.
True, Vista is not like what OS X was to OS 9. OS X was completely new. Whereas Vista has tonnes of old code (as it needs to). And that’s partly why it took Vista so long to come out too. Legacy.
good post congratulations
Wow, that is extremely nice info, thankyou.