Last night, I attended the Irish Tech Community Launch (http://www.microsoft.ie/techconnection) in Croke Park (where in Ireland we play Gaelic) of Windows Vista™, 2007 Office System and Exchange Server 2007.
Rob Burke, Developer & Platform Group (http://blogs.msdn.com/robburke) presented some really cool demos especially some of the security features
For instance,
Security - You can be secure with Vista by ensuring that no-one can copy files acroos to an external USB harddrive when you are not at your PC. When the device is installing, Vista will not permit the USB to be utilised
Microsoft Office Powerpoint 2007 - For all students out there who are short of time, the greatly enhanced toolbars permit you to turn some of your pure text slides into graphic matrcies with the click of a button
Business - Setting a new user up onto an account in Outlook takes less than 20 secs
Icons - these are just so cool allowing you to visualise from a macro perspective the content in each file without having to open the file
Switch between windows sidebar key - just easier if you are working on multiple files at any one time
Microsoft Office Groove 2007 (http://office.microsoft.com/en-gb/groove/default.aspx) - your PA! Ray Ozzie's baby (http://rayozzie.spaces.live.com/Blog/)
Sidebar is very user appealing - I moved my XP toolbar to the right hand side of my screen 2 years ago and found it easier to work with especially if you have a 17'' notebook ;).
It was also great to see some hands-on-labs...allowing you to put some theory into practice.
For more info for developers, check out http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/windowsvista/default.aspx
Calling all Irish developers:
- the Microsoft Developer and Platform Group will be hosting a number of lectures over the next few months convering Vista and related technologies from a micro perspective. So sign up to Microsoft Tech*connection (http://www.microsoft.ie/techconnection) to know whats happening.
- Also sign up to your local Microsoft Tech User Group via http://www.mtug.ie