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PDC 2003 Longhorn 'Aero' Keynote Photo Gallery | |
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| Time: 05:23 EST/10:23 GMT | News Source: WinInformant | Posted By: Byron Hinson | ||
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Paul T has posted a few "Aero" photos from the PDC keynote the other day, these show off the trasparent windows and improved icons along with a few other fancy bits and pieces. Along with an "Aero" transparent Window video |
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| #1 By 61 (24.92.223.181) at Wednesday, October 29, 2003 05:10:48 PM |
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JWM: Because all these things tie together to make Aero, all of which are UI functions. Honestly, WinFS should be bundled into the Aero terminology, also, if you ask me.
Probably does not mean will not. Also, only a little bit of what the speaker called 'very early' Aero bits were shown. |
| #2 By 1845 (12.209.152.69) at Wednesday, October 29, 2003 09:52:46 PM |
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CPU, I think I disagree. A UI widget and a filesystem should not be grouped together. Think in these terms...
Microsoft has been touted an n-Tier architecture for quite a while now. WinFS is LH's datastore. It is also the datastore of many applications. Each application will implement its own business logic (perhaps utilizing Indigo). Each application will implement its own presentation layer, likely utilizing Avalon technology - XAML, the 3d pipeline, rendering offload to GPU, etc. Each layer is logically divided. The OS itself is themed or styled. It builds these styles with existing UI technology (Avalon). The theme(s) for LH from Microsoft are callled Aero. From Tim Sneath's blog (http://blogs.gotdotnet.com/tims/permalink.aspx/c746876a-0c86-4629-b49f-bb7951ef4448) The bits that PDC attendees receive contain a development theme called "Slate"; this isn't the final theme. The final theme is codenamed "Aero" and was demonstrated in the BillG keynote: very "glassy" with lots of transparency. Aero is nothing more than LH's visual styles. Naturally, it depends on Avalon's abilities, but it isn't Avalon. This post was edited by BobSmith on Wednesday, October 29, 2003 at 21:53. |
| #3 By 1845 (12.209.152.69) at Wednesday, October 29, 2003 11:03:50 PM |
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NP, and I quite agree. I think one issue is that reporters (who aren't programmers) want to get scoops. Whether they actually understand what they are talking about is a whole different story. I've stopped reading Paul and a host of others, because they really don't know what's going on. I read MSDN and the blogs of Microsoft employees. IOW, I'm trying to get the info from the horse's mouth.
I doubt Paul or anyone else has intentionally mislead the public. Another statement in defense of journalists is that pre-release stuff changes. In the last two years - Blackcomb in 2005, no Longhorn in '04 (minor upgrade), BC in '06, no LH in '05, what's BC?, no LH server, yes LH server, LH in '06.... I'm quite sure that details like which classes will be LH specific, which will be in the general framework (available on non-LH Windows OSes), etc. change often, especially in alpha stages. |
