PDC08 Day2 Keynote: Windows7, Office 14, Live Mesh, Using WPF/Silverlight to build great Windows + Web apps
This keynote was a joy for me to see…I hope you enjoy too. I’m still polishing my PDC Talk (Thursday @ 8:30am), so this will be a brief post.
One blog comment about Guthrie’s keynote that I found from GeekTieGuy:
If you ever doubted that .NET and WPF were ready for “prime time”, doubt no longer. According to Scott Guthrie’s keynote, Visual Studio 2010 will have its user interface migrated to WPF. That almost blew my mind. Microsoft transitioning their bedrock developer tool to WPF - they wouldn’t do that lightly.
Watch an on-demand version of the keynote. Here are some important points in the video:
WPF Momentum Video (0:00)
Ray Ozzie (2:00)
Windows7 - Steven Sinofsky (17:00)
I'm excited about the direction of Windows 7.
Building great Windows + Web Apps - Scott Guthrie (1:12:00)
Lots of good WPF/Silverlight Stuff in this section…including:
- An announcement that major pieces of Visual Studio 2010 will be built with WPF
- A really cool demo of the new VS code editor extensibility
- Announcing that Windows 7 will include .NET 3.5sp1 in the box.
Windows Live Services - David Treadwell (1:49:00)
Good Live Mesh demo here and more.
Office 14 (2:14:00)
Nice peek at Office apps working in the browser and collaborating with Desktop Office apps.