Microsoft Ice House: Plan for Friday

[Scott Thompson]

Somebody should really get AIGLX and Beryl working on their laptops...if
possible.

On 2/1/07, Borden Rhodes <dominussuus at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Evening, heroes,
>
> I took a second gander at the MS house and tried to go to as many
> demos as I could before they forced us outside for the Vista & Office
> draw at 6:25.  There's definitely plenty of room to set up a 10 foot
> penguin but I was thinking on my way home that we should think about
> lighting because even towards 6:00 it was getting pretty dark out.
>
> The content of the demos is nothing new if you've familiarised
> yourself with the Vista homepage.  There are six 'rooms' in the house
> each with its own theme.  I summarise them so we know what sort of
> questions to expect if people ask us:
>
> - The kitchen emphasises Internet Explorer's tabbed browsing, ability
> to print only selected text from web pages, and anti-phishing
> software.  Also pontificated were Vista's tablet support and One Note:
> a clipboard made bigger and more complicated.
> - The dining room emphasised Vista's apparently easier media handling
> abilities and, specifically, the ability to tag media for searching
> (which I think just makes things worse).  Also demonstrated was
> Vista's DVD creation software where you could drag and drop media into
> place for burning.
> - The living room emphasised Vista's abilities to replicate a TiVo -
> download live TV to the hard drive, set up recording shows up to two
> weeks in advance, and find all of the movies being broadcasted that
> day with only a half dozen awkward clicks of a remote control.  The
> guide also noted XBox interoperability and the ability to control
> Vista wirelessly and remotely (which we already know is far too easy)
> - The bedroom showed off Vista's DreamScene desktop (which I'll
> concede is actually pretty cool albeit practically useless), desktop
> widgets, BitDefender software, and the Media Center [sic] dashboard
> where you can see all the pretty album covers of the music you can't
> play because you haven't bought the rights to it.
> - The kid's room showed off the new games organiser (which basically
> downloads games and dumps them in a prearranged folder) and parental
> controls to stop kids from playing things like Doom 3 (the usefulness
> of which is a bit of a paradox).
> - Finally, the office advertise, surprise surprise, MS Office 07.
> Apparently it has has all sorts of groundbreaking features like
> formatting previews and on-the-fly font changing.
>
> The house's emphasis, and what seems to sucker most of the visitors
> from their money, is the eye candy and simplicity.  We should,
> therefore, be ready to respond with our own eye candy and show how
> many things in Ubuntu can be one with only one click (like Synaptic,
> for example).
>
> I hope that this is of some use.
>
> Borden
>
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