Windows 8 News

Here we are Live at PDC 2009 again this morning for keynote day 2! After talking to some great people yesterday at the conference and going out for drinks afterward, I just may still be a little drunk still! I do have some bad news, we may be at the wrong place too! Wrong Place?

Google just announced this morning that a special Chrome OS event will be held at its headquarters in Mountain View, CA tomorrow morning! Considering Chrome OS has Microsoft freaking out lately, there will most likely be some shocking news released! Will this keynote day 2 bring up any surprise Windows 8 News? I wish! I also wish I could make it to the Google release, but if you are interested in the Google OS news check Windows 8 Forums for updates on the Google chrome OS tomorrow! So.. PDC 2009!

What does the PDC keynote have planned for us today? Scheduled to speak: Steven Sinofsky, Scott Guthrie, and Kurt Delbene! Steven Sinofsky is the man responsible for Windows 7 and the future and reason this site exists with Windows 8! Scott Guthrie with more coder .net and cloud stuff most likely, and probably Kurt Delbene with some Office 2010 or sharepoint magic! There are also reports of Internet explorer 9, in my opinion, whoopee  who doesn’t use Firefox these days? They better come up with some amazing improvements that shadow the nasty attempt at Internet explorer six and the shakeup seven caused!

8:30am PT: First to the stage: Steven Sinofsky! What have we learned about Windows 7? Today they will talk about the development of Windows 7,  and looking into the future! Development began with Users, they love to comment on how Microsoft should improve the operating system! Well, Lots of good suggestions came from the users with over 6,000 comments and over 10,000 e-mails! blah blah powerpoint slide… telemetry? wtf.. okay.. yeah yeah software quality, lets get to the good stuff!

8:45am PT: They better have something killer at the end of this presentation! Throwing a bunch of useless numbers on unique applications (883,612), how many printers(14,057),  Start Menu Clicks (512,253,176)  they counting dring the  windows 7 during beta… no shit, you guys tested the software! Congratulations Microsoft, your testing your software! No bugs right?

9:00am PT: Windows 7 Opportunities

• Ribbon User Interfacing
• Multi-touch, Ink, Speech
• Jump Lists, Progress Bars
• Libraries
• DirectX Family Improvements
• High Definition Audio/Video
• Senors
• Device Stage (Windows 8 News has a big update coming soon about this)

9:10am PT: Sinofsky wakes up the crowd with free laptops for all paid attendees! stats of the laptop: Intel Core 2 Duo U2300 w/ Mobile Intel processor, 2GB ram (up to 8GB) 250GB 2.5″ HDD with muilti-card reader, and 802.11 a/n/g/n, gigabit LAN, and bluetooth! I personally have way too many computers, I don’t need another laptop with weak stats!

9:30am PT: Silverlight 3 Features Powerpoint:

• Element to Element
• Data Binding
• Custom Easing
• SEO
• H.264 Video
• Themed Application Support
• Text Animation
• Location Connection
• 60+ Controls
• High Contrast
• File Save Listbox
• Dock Panel
• Raw Anti-Virus Pipeline
• Out of Browser
• AAC Audio
• Enhanced Deep Zoom
• 1090p HD
• Deep Linking
• Local Fonts
• HD Smooth
• Streaming
• Connectivity Detection
• Start Menu
• Multi select listbox
• Control Skinning
• Wrap Panel
• Text Rendering & Fonts
• Hardware Acceleration
• Perspective 3D
• Pixel Shader Effects
• DRM
• Local Data
• Data Forms
• Viewbox
• Bitmap caching
• Cached composition
• Bitmap API
• Animation Effects
• Desktop Shortcut
• Data Validation
• Merged Resource Dictionaries
• Compressed Fonts

Even more features to come with Silverlight 4 with media feature focuses such as: Webcam & Microphone, Multicast Streaming, Output Protection, and Offline DRM! Also business applications and beyond the browser, probably into mobile apps and desktop gadgets!

9:45am PT: Little demo on Silverlight 4 using the ever popular Bing.com due to the obsessive amounts of cash thrown at advertising , maybe this will be the secret to getting Bing from 10% to match Google around 50% search market share! oh, wow, a rickroll… we never seen that happen at SOOoo many events..

9:55am PT: Scott Hanselman makes it to the stage next, principal program manager for the developer division at Microsoft best known for doing public speaking for Microsoft as he is one of those few developers to can relate with the other developers? The lucky bastard normally works out of his home office!

10:05am PT: Next on stage: Samad Wahedi, Chief Executive Office of Snapflow, to create and automate workflows using Silverlight. To speed the SnapFlow user interface designing they introduced Microsoft Expression Blend design software. Looks like an advanced Visio Not very exciting where is all the Windows 8 details, am I right?

10:30am PT: Office 2010 beta, Sharepoint… brings everyone together and happy! Can we market the same stuff any more? Nothing really to report on that other than Office Mobile will be available along with the Office 2010 beta. Yeah, not much going on… will we see a big finalize with Windows 8 details or Zune 3D??

11:00am PT: That’s it Folks!! Thanks for checking in Live as it happened! Keep checking back as we’ll have many updates on our interrogations of anyone we can find!