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From the Editor
Our team is packing up from WinHEC U.S. and shipping out crates of demos for WinHEC Taipei and WinHEC Tokyo. I'm still energized from meeting people at the Seattle conference and talking about the great information shared in the Expo Hall and in technical sessions.
You saw all the buzz in the news about the Beta 2 releases of Microsoft Windows Vista and Windows Server codename "Longhorn". But if you weren't in Seattle, you missed the 150 hours of deep conversations over new technologies and new directions. Here is a brief "Best of Show" list, based solely on my personal opinion - no scientific heuristics or poll-based data applied.
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When you watch the Webcast of the keynote, at about minute 15 Jeff Woolsey shows a Microsoft Virtual Server 2005 virtual machine migrated to run inside Windows Server virtualization, with an impressive set of variations:
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32-bit and 64-bit virtual machines
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1-, 2-, and 4-processor virtual machines
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Windows Server 2003, Red Hat Linux, and Windows Server "Longhorn" as guest operating systems
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Hot-adding network cards and memory to virtual machines - modifying virtual hardware without any down time
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A spiffy leather-bound laptop was being admired at the trade show, and a coveted laptop like that needs Trusted Platform Module 1.2 (TPM 1.2) and Windows Vista for data protection in case of loss or theft.
BitLocker is the Microsoft response to customer requests to address threats of data theft from lost, stolen, or or improperly decommissioned PCs. BitLocker Drive Encryption is a data-protection feature in Windows Vista Enterprise and Ultimate and in Windows Server "Longhorn." It prevents a thief who boots another operating system or runs a software hacking tool from breaking Windows file and system protection or from offline viewing of data stored on the protected volumes.
For more background, read the System Integrity Team blog.
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A bright and shining beacon across the WinHEC Expo hall. Wide-gamut, high dynamic-range color processing comes to the Windows world. Windows Color System (WCS) is a new development platform for devices and applications, featuring a revamped color engine, new print infrastructure, and centralized user control, together with unparalleled extensibility for developers and hardware product designers. For more information, see Michael Bourgoin's blog on color at Microsoft.
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Missed WinHEC? You can order the Conference Proceedings on DVD - which includes media streaming presentations of the technical sessions and demos, plus white papers and tools. This includes new previews of technical documentation on Windows virtualization, not available on the Web or through other methods. You can also view the 3 executive keynotes on demands on the WinHEC Web site.
Catch Up Online. We published a large set of new white papers on WHDC, many supporting presentations at WinHEC. The Windows core and device development teams have released a wide range of deep technical information to help hardware and driver developers build and test new products that work well with coming releases of Windows Vista and Windows Server "Longhorn." We'll be highlighting favorites here in the coming weeks, but you can start your summer reading now.
-- Annie Pearson
for the WHDC Web team
WHDC After Dark:
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What Are They Saying Today? We've collected links to blogs from Microsoft folks who are writing about driver and hardware platform issues.
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For Windows Betas: Tools for Hardware and Driver Developers
Upcoming Industry Developers Conference
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This conference provides the year's most advanced and exhaustive PCI training, including the latest developments for PCI Express 2.0 Electricals and Protocols, PCI Express I/O Virtualization, and Members Implementation Experiences with PCI-SIG technologies. This event is at the San Jose McEnery Convention Center in San Jose, California.
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This DevCon provides the opportunity to hear from the creators of Certified Wireless USB and obtain key learnings on how to incorporate Certified Wireless USB into product road maps. The conference will be held at the San Jose McEnery Convention Center in San Jose, California. The conference will provide detailed information about the 1.0 release of the Wireless USB specification and valuable knowledge for product implementations.
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Hardware and Driver Developer Community
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