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Which proves he didn't even bother to watch the keynote. There was even a piece of hardware that showed the power consumption during sleep. They also showed the

by pbz 15y ago

Which proves he didn't even bother to watch the keynote. There was even a piece of hardware that showed the power consumption during sleep. They also showed the new task manager and specifically pointed out how the Metro apps have been suspended (using 0% CPU, but still loaded in RAM).

silverlight 15y ago
He later goes on to suggest that perhaps there will be no "traditional" Windows on the tablet, only Metro, which he discusses having the same sorts of backgrounding-and-suspending capability iOS enjoys. From the article: It’s worth noting that Metro is more than just a new look, and more than just putting touch first. Metro apps have similar restrictions to iOS apps. According to Jensen Harris, for example, Metro apps will get “about five seconds” after they’re no longer on-screen before the system puts them into a suspended state. There’s no file manager. Users no longer quit (or, in Windows parlance, exit) apps explicitly. These tradeoffs sound familiar? ...Did you (and the parent poster) simply read the Gruber article until you could find something to nitpick, then go with it?
- pbz 15y ago
  "He later goes on to suggest that perhaps there will be no "traditional" Windows on the tablet, only Metro, which he discusses having the same sorts of backgrounding-and-suspending capability iOS enjoys." Which, again, proves he didn't watch the keynote. At one point they brought up the scenario of using a tablet on the couch and then, after finding a bug, being able to pull up Visual Studio on the same device. Even the tablet they gave out came with VS installed on the device.
  - lloeki 15y ago
    It's an Intel tablet. Gruber envisions a possible scenario where Metro-only is on ARM tablets.
    - pbz 15y ago
      That's a very narrow definition of a tablet. Regardless, they also showed at a different conference the actual Windows desktop with Office running on ARM. If it can run the full desktop it can Metro as well.

by pbz 15y ago

silverlight 15y ago

He later goes on to suggest that perhaps there will be no "traditional" Windows on the tablet, only Metro, which he discusses having the same sorts of backgrounding-and-suspending capability iOS enjoys. From the article: It’s worth noting that Metro is more than just a new look, and more than just putting touch first. Metro apps have similar restrictions to iOS apps. According to Jensen Harris, for example, Metro apps will get “about five seconds” after they’re no longer on-screen before the system puts them into a suspended state. There’s no file manager. Users no longer quit (or, in Windows parlance, exit) apps explicitly. These tradeoffs sound familiar? ...Did you (and the parent poster) simply read the Gruber article until you could find something to nitpick, then go with it?

pbz 15y ago
"He later goes on to suggest that perhaps there will be no "traditional" Windows on the tablet, only Metro, which he discusses having the same sorts of backgrounding-and-suspending capability iOS enjoys." Which, again, proves he didn't watch the keynote. At one point they brought up the scenario of using a tablet on the couch and then, after finding a bug, being able to pull up Visual Studio on the same device. Even the tablet they gave out came with VS installed on the device.
- lloeki 15y ago
  It's an Intel tablet. Gruber envisions a possible scenario where Metro-only is on ARM tablets.
  - pbz 15y ago
    That's a very narrow definition of a tablet. Regardless, they also showed at a different conference the actual Windows desktop with Office running on ARM. If it can run the full desktop it can Metro as well.