1. Windows Vista Overview Nick Page Application Architect

2. Windows Vista The biggest ever release of Windows Stacks Network Access Protection Network Location Awareness High Resolution/High DPI Windows Sideshow Windows Vista Display Driver Model People Near Me Windows Defender Power Management Live Icons Windows SideBar Parental Controls Windows Feedback Services Desktop Window Manager Registry/File System Virtualization Protected Mode IE Windows Service Hardening Sync Center Aero Presentation Settings Preview Pane User Account Protection Ad-hoc Meeting Networks Quick Search Windows Imaging Format Windows Resource Protection MMC 3.0 Cancelable I/O Resource Exhaustion Diagnostics Peer Name Resolution Protocol Reading Pane Windows Disk Diagnostics Restart Manager Transactional Registry Single binary Memory Diagnostics Startup Repair Toolkit Transactional File System Eventing and Instrumentation WS-Management InfoCard SuperFetch Segoe UI Font Flip3D New Explorers Taskbar Thumbnails IPv6 XAML Search Folders Ink Analysis Split Tokens Mandatory Integrity Control UI Privilege Isolation Secure Startup Windows Filtering Platform User Mode Driver Framework New Open/Save Dialogs Shell Property System Winlogon Rearchitecture Windows Communication Foundation Windows Presentation Foundation Glass Open Package Specification XML Paper Specification Windows Workflow Foundation Windows Installer 4.0 Monad RSS Platform Function Discovery API Wizard Framework Crypto Next Generation Credential Providers Confident | Clear | Connected

3. Value to End Users Faster: productivity, time-to-decision  Information insight and data analysis  Sharing, collaborating and acting Cheaper: reduced operational costs  Security and identity  Training and operational costs  Intelligent use of network resources Better: strategic new capabilities  Digital relationships; new approaches to online service  Everyday/all-day computing experience

4. Vista For Developers Deliver better value to your users  Great UX and support for next generation of connected solutions Deliver it more quickly  Our most comprehensive platform for developers and UX designers Remember Windows 3.0 Apps on Windows 95…  Expectations will significantly change Application Compatibility  We do break some applications

5. Democratizing Rocket Science Do more  Focus on differentiation, not plumbing  Access PC power without complexity Do it faster  Comprehensive frameworks  Consistency  Tools for developer and designer Eliminate roadblocks  Security  Deployment  Feedback loop

6. What’s New - In A Nutshell PresentationWPF, Sidebar, SideShow, DirectX, MCE, Vista Common Controls, Ink & Pen DataDesktop search, RSS, Open Packaging Convention, XPS, Synch Center CommunicationWCF, WF, InfoCard FoundationSecurity (UAC, MIC, Parental controls), Reliability (Restart Manager, I/O cancellation, MSI, Error Reporting, Power management), Manageability (MMC 3.0, WS-Management, Monad, Crimson eventing)

7. High Fidelity UI Goal: Modern UI and UX  UX that look like 2006, not 1996  Applications that are a joy to use Platform component:  Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) Integrated support for UI, media, documents 2D, 3D, media, animation, text, data-binding, styling Hardware acceleration XAML UI definition language  AERO and the Vista Common Controls Developer Value: Simplicity & Flexibility  Unified framework with incremental learning curve  Tool-able persistence format  Flexible deployment model

8. Streamlined User Experience The streamlined Windows Vista Desktop Experience helps users better focus on the content that they care about and on the task at hand, saving time and money Windows XP Redesigned Explorers Give users more area for their content and feature support for Live Icons Windows Vista Stacks Wizards and dialog boxes can be customized, enabling users to make clearer choices Glass Window Frames

9. Use the Aero Themes API and System Font (Segoe UI) Use common controls and common dialogs Use the standard window frame, use glass judiciously Use icons and graphics consistent with Windows Vista style and quality Clean up UI Use standard Windows Search & plug into the storage system: meta-data, thumbnails and previews Use Task Dialog for dialog boxes and error messages Use Aero Wizards Reserve Development time for Fit & Finish! Windows Vista UX Guidelines Download preliminary version from: http://msdn.microsoft.com/windowsvista/experience Much more to come…

10. Search & Organize Goals: Find and Act on Documents  Search, stack, filter, preview, and act quickly Platform components:  Desktop search: full-text and metadata index  Search-aware common controls  Rich document previews and icons  Open packaging conventions Developer Value:  Robust query engine “for free”  Richer visuals for custom file types

11. New Search Folders Flexible, query-based views of your files Stacks Virtual views of your content; the same item can be in more than one stack Windows Vista ensures that you will never lose a file on your PC ever again Start Menu Quick Search Instantly search across your PC for any file, folder, or email Windows Vista auto-organizes your content for you, enabling you to “visualize” your files in virtually any way you want Instant Search and Smart Organization

12. Demo

13. Use Task Dialog

14. Increased Customer Connection Goal: Outstanding Service  promote affinity with novelty, speed, simplicity, and service.  Provide more value, more of the time Platform components:  Sidebar  SideShow  MCE  RSS Developer value: More Surface Area  More ways to service users, even if they aren’t running your application

15. Windows Sidebar

16. Upcoming Calendar Items and Contacts are accessible via the exterior display even when the laptop is hibernating or shut. An external, auxiliary display on the exterior of a new laptop. A joystick or touchpad would allow the user to navigate and drill into meeting items. Prototype ASUS Laptop Windows Sideshow

17. Connected Systems Goal: Seamless Connectivity  Interact with data and services, local or global Platform components:  WCF: secure, reliable, transacted, interoperable messaging as a basis for SOA  PeerNet: P2P discovery and communication mesh  WF: extensible, model-based workflow engine Developer Value:  Unified communication stack spanning transports, security systems, messaging patterns, encodings, network topologies, and hosting models  Drive complex data and UI interactions through simple workflow models

18. Security & Identity Goals: Simple and Secure Access  Secure solution for identity, authorization and access control  Lower risk of security issues Platform components:  InfoCard: User controlled identity metasystem provider, integrated with IE and WCF  UAC: limit exposure of admin accounts  Tools: /GS, SAL, CAS and more Developer Value:  Common Identity infrastructure that users trust  Reduced attack surface and risky bugs

19. Demo

20. The AERO aesthetic is both professional and beautiful. It creates a high quality and elegant experience that users can be productive in and even fall in love with. Authentic Energetic Reflective Open & Approachable

21. Value Perception Shift Work OnlyLife Relevancy Seamless Integration in Life Experiences Computer Centric People Centric Relevant Scenarios Emotive Connections At YouWith You Partnership with industry Feedback loop with customer

22. Use the Aero Themes API and System Font (Segoe UI) Use common controls and common dialogs Use the standard window frame, use glass judiciously Use icons and graphics consistent with Windows Vista style and quality Clean up UI Use standard Windows Search & plug into the storage system: meta-data, thumbnails and previews Use Task Dialog for dialog boxes and error messages Use Aero Wizards Reserve Development time for Fit & Finish! Windows Vista UX Guidelines Download preliminary version from: http://msdn.microsoft.com/windowsvista/experience Much more to come…

23. AERO glass & standard frame

24. Icons: style & quality

25. Use Task Dialog

26. Use AERO Wizard

27. Reserve time for Fit & Finish

28. Example of Applying the UX Guidelines

38. Windows Vista Opportunity Next generation of customer needs  Confident, safe, secure, manageable PC experience  Clear ways to find, visualize, and organize information  Connect to people, information, devices Fastest adopted OS  Industry forecasts > 475 million PCs in first 24 months  Upgradeable installed base ~200 million PCs  Windows Vista/Office 12 will spark Enterprise refresh cycle Marketing draft  Largest demand and readiness effort in industry history  Greater enterprise focus – 20x investment in readiness  $100M Windows Vista Showcase Partner Program

39. Moving Applications to Vista 1.Make sure it’s compatible  Compatibility Toolkits available  ‘Compatible modes’ 2.Align yourselves with Security/Stability goal  No need for ‘compatibility fixes’ because app ‘does the right thing’ 3.Adopt new Vista User Interface features  Eg New dialogs, icons, font  Users expectations met. Usability increased. 4.Enhance application with new technologies  New Airspace through RSS, Sidebar, Sideshow  Use of Search .Net Framework 3.0 (WinFx)

40. References MSDN Windows Vista Developer Center http://msdn.microsoft.com/windowsvista http://msdn.microsoft.com/windowsvista Top-10 Ways to Light Up Your Windows Vista Applications http://msdn.microsoft.com/windowsvista/top10 http://msdn.microsoft.com/windowsvista/top10 Preliminary Windows Vista UX Guidelines http://msdn.microsoft.com/windowsvista/experience http://msdn.microsoft.com/windowsvista/experience Microsoft Gadgets http://microsoftgadgets.com/sideshow.aspx http://microsoftgadgets.com/sideshow.aspx Enterprise Planning Guide for Windows Vista PCs http://www.microsoft.com/technet/windowsvista/evaluate/hardware/entpguid.mspx http://www.microsoft.com/technet/windowsvista/evaluate/hardware/entpguid.mspx Using Application Compatibility Tools for Marking Legacy Applications with Elevated Run Levels on Windows Vista http://www.microsoft.com/technet/windowsvista/deploy/appcompat/acshims.mspx http://www.microsoft.com/technet/windowsvista/deploy/appcompat/acshims.mspx PDC 2005 Recorded Sessions http://microsoft.sitestream.com/PDC05/ http://microsoft.sitestream.com/PDC05/