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| Time: 09:14 EST/14:14 GMT | News Source: PC Magazine | Posted By: Robert Stein | ||
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There was a time when I disagreed with the idea that the core of Microsoft's next major operating system, Windows 8, would be a hypervisor, or virtualized machine monitor. Now, however, I see the beauty of this approach, especially for consumers. | ||
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| #1 By 89249 (64.207.240.90) at 7/16/2010 12:33:21 PM |
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When I first read about this new direction MS has been taking it was a lot to take in. He touches on the bigger points but frankly MS has been going in a sweet direction since Vista. Their desire to fix security along with fit on other devices will end up making one hell of an OS.
Now, hopefully, Windows 8 will also have different UI "modes" (NUI's) to properly make the OS's interface's controls fit the situation. Touch being the most obvious. |
| #2 By 28801 (65.90.202.10) at 7/16/2010 6:37:53 PM |
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#1: I hope you are right!
I resist buying an iPad because a tablet/slate should be so much more. That said, it should not just be the same Win 7 UI that we get on a laptop or a desktop. This post was edited by rxcall on Friday, July 16, 2010 at 18:43. |
| #3 By 143 (96.28.66.92) at 7/17/2010 5:27:09 AM |
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What does everybody think about Microsoft releasing a 64bit only OS?
I know the more I use 64bit the more I like. |
| #4 By 23275 (68.117.163.128) at 7/17/2010 8:00:45 PM |
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watch carefully for Wndows 7 embedded - it offers everything one needs in a full OS, plus very long battery life and instant on/off capability.
Also watch for the entire industry to change from the desktop metaphor to a HUB and Tile stratgey that "finalizes" intelligence. e.g., that wich is presented as a product and allows one to make a decision - be it to decide when to re-order from a particular vendor, or higher more employees to meet expected demand, to where your girlfriend is and what you might do for fun. Data AND code bits will stream in many directions at once across a sea of federated services, which best reflect life - work life, education and play. Where/when we need "apps" we'll access them from our desktops as always, but how we USE apps is going to change forever. In a really piss poor - in a rush way - I describe one representation here, http://sovereign.libertech.net/ - while intentionally focused on one product, the technigues and principles under it are all the same - delivering an understanding vice apps and the ability to action things in any direction based upon that understanding. Finally, NUI's are all about "augemented intelligence" - again, intelligence being that information which one may use in practical ways. Of course the lens on a camera is the first aperture we'll leverage - but eventually even your eyes will be able to layer in augmentations based upon the HUB and Tile metaphor. |
| #5 By 2960 (72.205.26.164) at 7/19/2010 10:54:12 AM |
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So what does all this mean for performance?
How will affect gaming and how the system addresses high-end video cards? |
| #6 By 2960 (72.205.26.164) at 7/19/2010 10:55:15 AM |
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As for 64-bit only, I can only say it would be about damned time.
The only thing holding back 64-bit is the developers being too lazy to do it :) |
| #7 By 23275 (68.117.163.128) at 7/19/2010 11:50:46 AM |
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Performance is a function of many things and not simply a measure of raw power. For example, in distributed/federated systems, much of the processing takes place off of the client where local client cache performance is more important than other sub-systems.
Similarly, off-loading GPU processing from the client to the server with a stack of GPU's leveraging the client's design (where everything, as it is now, is virtualized off the page), makes very high end GPU's less important than they once were client side. The Aero theme running on the WDM is supported, but does not require the hardware it once did and since reading to/from the localized cache, which is continually refreshed is where most I/O takes place, localizing such caches in NAND Flash RAM is how the client will sustain higher levels of performance with lower network loads. |
| #8 By 2960 (72.205.26.164) at 7/20/2010 8:44:30 AM |
| Indeed LOL |
| #9 By 16797 (99.236.143.109) at 7/20/2010 1:38:02 PM |
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#7 "off-loading GPU processing from the client to the server"
Yeah, that's gonna help.. |
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