BUILD conference keynote, part III.  Windows 8 Hardware and other new features in Windows 8.  13 Sep 2011.

• Michael Angiulo, Corp VP, Windows Planning and Ecosystem

• Super fast boot times
• 8-sec bootup on current in-market laptop

• Service automatically checks for root kits – tons of new security features

• New power state – Connected Standby – very low power
• One-click power switch on tablet – instant on/off

• Killer feature – instant on/off, just like iPad
• ATOM and ARM-based systems

• USB 3.0 – much faster than 2.0

• Windows 8 supports 256TB drives
• 4.7 TFlops computing power on killer 3-graphics card system.  (2500x original Cray)

• Unreal engine and DX11

• All of Windows 8 is built hardware accelerated graphics
• Only 1 pixel of chrome around the outside of apps
• Touch working across wide variety of systems
• If a screen can run Windows 7, it can automatically run Windows 8

• 1366 x 768 – can do side-by-side in Metro
• Sensor API in Win 8

• NFC (Near Field Communication) built-in (sensor), to recognize objects
• HD web cam app

• Win 8 tablet with 3G

• Resume from Sleep as fast as you can open the lid
• Thin laptops

• PC is mostly battery

• Samsung table PC – 5,000 in warehouse

• Everyone at BUILD gets one of these
• “Samsung Windows Developer Preview PC”

• 2nd generation Core i5
• Dual monitor
• 11.6″ diagonal
• Loaded with Developer Preview of Windows 8
• Comes with tools, apps

• Win 8 smaller/faster on widest range of hardware
• Windows 8 on “professional platform”

• New Task Manager

• Apps go into Suspended state when you’re not looking at them

• New Startup mods in Task Manager
• Services tab
• Run command line tool to make current set of settings a baseline for restore
• Standard performance benchmarks; run suites of tests; compare over machines or over time
• Remote Desktop

• Touch enabling on remote session
• Hyper-V, can run on Windows

• VHDs, can mount as drives
• New ribbon in Windows Explorer; new Up button

• Desktop background can span multiple monitors
• Can customize taskbar for each monitor separately – i.e. show icons only for apps on that monitor

• Swap monitor, e.g. run Metro on one monitor, app on another
• Type “cmd” in Metro, search opens automatically, shows you cmd.exe

• Weather app

• IE10 in Windows 8

• All the normal keyboard/mouse works as usual
• Can open app in either Metro panel or with normal Windows desktop frame
• Internet Explorer 10 Platform Preview 3
• Mulit-touch in IE10

• Magnifier

• Ease of Access – can make everything bigger
• Thumb-by-Thumb keyboard layout

• Ink / Pen

• All personal settings roam