You come into where all your programs are, a series of Live Tiles that tell you all kinds of information about what's been going on since the last time you were in here. So no longer do you go to a blank desktop.
This is where you come after you start Windows. And to get into Windows, you just swipe up from the bottom, go in to log in, and this is Windows. It gives you a little bit of information about what your computer has been doing while you've been away. When you start, you have your own personalized screen. On the Lock screen, this is what happens when you come to Windows. So we took a step back, looked at all the changes that had been happening, how important it is for you to connect to your social networks, how the Internet has become such a central part of what you do on the computer, 3G, 4G, wireless computing, and we wanted to really reimagine exactly how you use Windows, be really fast and fluent and get you to the information and things you really care about. Because a lot has happened since Windows 95, the last time we really changed the interface for Windows. when we sat down in the summer of 09, we finished Windows 7 and started thinking about what we could do with Windows, what did we want to do next, what's our next release going to look like, we really took a step back and said, let's think about how to reimagine Windows to be more modern.
Sinofsky: It's an off the shelf second-generation Core. Mossberg, interrupting again: Or is it a big server? Mossberg, interrupting: Is it a normal desktop computer? Pay attention to the screen, it could be any kind of device, it could be a laptop, a tablet, or. These are the cards that run the screen and there's actually a desktop computer underneath here. Larson-Green: This is a dev(eloper) rig we use it for testing the different digitizers and touch screens. Quotes from the D9 folks are in italics like this. Since there are four players here, I'll have to revert to a more typical format in which I clearly identify each person speaking. You'll see.Īfter some introductory remarks, including a nice compliment for Larson-Green from All Things D's Walt Mossberg ("she's really impressive, I must say"), all four convene on the stage, which includes a prototype Windows 8 machine (or what Walt calls a "contraption" before making fun of it for being bigger than existing tablets. The former is a Microsoft corporate vice president, and is responsible for the Windows user interface. In this second part, I'll focus on the actual demo, which includes a few new players, Microsoft's Julie Larson-Green and All Things D's Kara Swisher. In Part 1 of this series of articles, I transcribed the relevant parts of Steven Sinofsky's D9 interview, stopping at about the 22:00 mark, or just before the Windows 8 demo ensued.
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