BUILD conference keynote, part IV. Windows 8 and Windows Live. 13 Sep 2011.
Chris Jones.
- InBox, multiple accounts
- Share calendars
- Connected address book
- Photos – photos from various places
- SkyDrive – accessible to developers
- Connect devices via Live – e.g. navigate hard drive
- Tunneling via Live ID
- Sharing photos via mail
- Connected contact list
- SkyDrive via web site, access to all connected devices
- Windows Phone 7.5, SkyDrive stuff
- New Acer touch screen PC with Touch
- Live apps are all written as new HTML5 Metro apps
- Hundreds of other features in Windows 8 we haven’t yet seen
- Sample apps
- Teams built apps in 10 weeks
- 17 teams, 2-3 devs per team, 10 weeks
- College interns built all of the sample apps
- Here are some of the interns
- Hmm, intern said “turn on their Slate”
- Steven, with more to say
- Windows 8 Developer Preview – pre-release – Visual Studio 11 Express, Blend 5
- Next milestone Beta. Then RC, RTM, GA (General Availability)
- Driven by quality, not by a date
- Developer Preview will also receive updates
- Customer Feedback will drive fixes that they make
- http://dev.windows.com, can download preview, 10PM CST
- No activation