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[Raistlin]

What i'm most excited about is the boost this is gonna give to windows phone 7 app development.

Agreed. The overlap should benefit both.

 

[alphaNoid]

The metro sections look great. but the fact that you are bumped back to the desktop when you use a mouse seems weird. Like they only did half their job. This is my next commented on this as well. It should be better integrated - all metro.

You can use the mouse while in metro. Optionally you can drop out of metro the desktop anytime you want, and they need this feature to support legacy x86 applications etc.. Not having a standard desktop would make the OS useless for everything existing.

It makes sense to do it the way they are.

 

[brotkasten]

Yeah I know that. Bad wording on my part. I'm taking issue with the fact that the desktop is still present in basically the same form as Windows 7. Granted, there is still room for change, but it is weird that they keep showing these two drastically different, poorly integrated methods of control.

They need to show it. Look at how people in this very thread asked if this OS is just for tablets or not.

 

[crazy monkey]

I really hope someone ports this to the Touchpad.

oh man wbos + android + win 8 in one

 

[MedIC86]

dat ultrabooks

 

[Vanillalite]

Woah@Those Ultrabooks!

 

[LCfiner]

i actually have that fear for ARM chips. i reckon the performance of the i5 core chip in that tablet is leagues ahead of Atom spec-wise, and paired with SSD would make for a snappy system.

i'm not sure if ARM can scale up to offer a comparable performance within the next year, and even if it does it might be forced to scale to a much higher TDP that would render its traditional benefits over x86 moot.

the reason why I'm not worried about the ARM hardware is because the stuff written directly for metro with the HTML and JS should run speedily on that hardware (i can't imagine MS releasing metro apps that run poorly on ARM). and I suspect that people buying the ARM tablet will not be looking for traditional windows apps - the ones more likely to run slowly on the slower hardware.

I suppose there is a chance that someone less informed could buy the "wrong" tablet hardware and get performance issues they don't expect but that's probably going to be mitigated by MS and vendors doing some serious branding to differentiate the hardware types.

 

[clav]

But is it drop proof?

 

[MThanded]

The fastboot was on a device with an ssd correct?

Also they are finally using UEFI. Welcome to the present Microsoft.

 

[Tuck]

You can use the mouse while in metro. Optionally you can drop out of metro the desktop anytime you want, and they need this feature to support legacy x86 applications etc.. Not having a standard desktop would make the OS useless for everything existing.

It makes sense to do it the way they are.

This is true, I suppose. It just seems like it could be integrated much better than 'Windows 7 (With changes) inside Windows 8'

 

[artist]

MacBook Air be shakin'

 

[bathala]

Pilot Program sign up PLS!!!!!!!!!!!!!1

 

[clav]

Don Mattrick Xbox 360 E3 2010 moment incoming.

 

[JaggedSac]

Driving back to work I got to thinking about how the new Marketplace is going to affect things.

One, being that apps are going to be really platform independent, the apps being made for the massive Windows audience is going to give a huge shot in the arm to WP. Should be interesting to see how that plays out.

Two, Steam and other digital game distributors could take a huge hit depending on the royalties MS wants for listing your app on the marketplace. The huge audience and ubiquity of the marketplace means it will be the first place to release your game, at least indy games. No wonder they haven't given a crap about GFWL with this thing on the horizon. Make XBox Live APIs available to devs and open up some Contracts for it and you have a beast.

 

[bananas]

AND YOU GET A TABLET! AND YOU GET A TABLET!

 

[Anton Sugar]

Holy shit, custom Samsung with W8 for all attendees???

 

[iNvid02]

free stuff everyone applause

 

[artist]

lol, they announced more tablets for the pilot program than HP got TouchPads.

 

[HarryDemeanor]

Where's Don Mattrick!?

 

[DavieC726]

AND YOU GET A TABLET! AND YOU GET A TABLET!

That woulda been funny if they had an Oprah moment.....better yet if Oprah did it

 

[clav]

2GBs of month.

Boooooooooooooooo

AT&T :lol

 

[mr_nothin]

Why cant the console presentations be as smooth as this?

 

[brotkasten]

The fastboot was on a device with an ssd correct?

Also they are finally using UEFI. Welcome to the present Microsoft.

You need UEFI and an SSD for that few seconds of boot time. It still will be faster with an ordinary HDD, but my next mainboard will definitely have UEFI. Bios is holding my SSD back, when it comes to boot time. :lol

 

[alphaNoid]

Did they just hand out 5000 win8 developer tablets?

fml

 

[HarryDemeanor]

Can this tablet cook me dinner? How about washing my car?

 

[clav]

External HDMI from Tablet?

WHOA

 

[bathala]

also Windows can do.... KINECT.

<crowd throws stuff on stage>

 

[Walshicus]

Can this tablet cook me dinner? How about washing my car?

Take my penknife, my good man!

 

[iNvid02]

jesus they got a good deal

 

[Ogrekiller]

Can this tablet cook me dinner? How about washing my car?

How about a blowjob? Will it print money too?

 

[Blackhead]

TIMN: "dual-digitizer screen"?!

 

[Damon Bennet]

samsung <3
windows 8 <3

i need this. too bad im not a developer.

 

[brotkasten]

Can this tablet cook me dinner? How about washing my car?

It has an Core i5. I'm sure it will get hot enough to cook you something on the backside. :lol

 

[Emily Chu]

OMFG.... ATT FREE 12 month 2GB.....

ULTRA BOOKS FOR ALL SAMSUNG i5 CORE

5000 of em

 

[InaudibleWhispa]

also Windows can do.... KINECT.

<crowd throws stuff on stage>

They released the Kinect for Windows SDK months ago. And some of the PC apps are incredible.

 

[brotkasten]

MULTI MONITOR PROFESSIONAL STUFF, FUCK YEAH!

 

[ColtraineGF]

 

[iNvid02]

sold!

 

[Totakeke]

Two, Steam and other digital game distributors could take a huge hit depending on the royalties MS wants for listing your app on the marketplace. The huge audience and ubiquity of the marketplace means it will be the first place to release your game, at least indy games. No wonder they haven't given a crap about GFWL with this thing on the horizon. Make XBox Live APIs available to devs and open up some Contracts for it and you have a beast.

0% cut for W8 marketplace.

 

[Chris R]

The tears from various users on ADF websites around the web are kinda funny to see. I don't understand why they can't see the difference between say an iPad 2 and one of these tablets that are actually running a full operating system capable of real running real computing applications. Both devices have a place in this world

 

[artist]

Woo fucking hoo. No more bugging "RESHTART YOUR PC NOW" shit.

 

[DavieC726]

YES! They confirmed Metro UI with mouse.....I must get this....

 

[GloomyHitsuji]

Yes! This part was what I was waiting for!

 

[enzo_gt]

AND YOU GET A TABLET! AND YOU GET A TABLET!

I laughed so hard.

 

[clav]

WP7 battery saving technique imported to Windows 8.

TASK MANAGER

 

[tci]

Dat taskmanager!

 

[MThanded]

So they did nothing with the standard interface. Looks the same.

 

[brotkasten]

Looks like they're metro-fying the UI bit for bit. I hope they'll remove all the shades of grey that are still in there.

:lol @ minimized ribbon

 

[Reversed]

That's a pretty task manager

 

[artist]

Nothing gets me harder than looking at task manager's memory allocation charts...

...show me actual performance! COME ON! I WANT THE SEX!

Start fapping buddy. New Task manager being demo'ed