How will Microsoft Market Windows 8 tomorrow?

Tomorrow (Tuesday 13th September 2011) sees the official unveiling of Windows 8 from Microsoft at their BUILD conference in Anaheim, California. The keynote address, which goes out at 9am PT | 5pm – London | 12pm – New York | Fri 2am – Sydney | Fri 1am – Tokyo | Fri 12am – Beijing | 9:30pm – Mumbai can be seen online HERE. But what will Windows 8 be and how will Microsoft push it.
Clearly there will be a focus on the new tablet interface. Windows Chief Steven Sinofsky himself has said that "if you want to stay permanently immersed in that Metro world, you will never see the desktop—we won’t even load it (literally the code will not be loaded) unless you explicitly choose to go there! This is Windows reimagined."
Even when Sinofsky said "You don’t need to change to a different device if you want to edit photos or movies professionally, create documents for your job or school, manage a large corpus of media or data, or get done the infinite number of things people do with a PC today. And if you don’t want to do any of those “PC†things, then you don’t have to and you’re not paying for them in memory, battery life, or hardware requirements. If you do want or need this functionality, then you can switch to it with ease and fluidity because Windows is right there. Essentially, you can think of the Windows desktop as just another app." I'm cautious.
The reason for this is that to have a successful tablet interface it needs to be simple and straightforward. Windows is a complicated beast though with all manner of functionality built into Explorer alone. Integration with SkyDrive and Office 365 will be there, Mounting ISO files as virtual drives, changing your sharing settings for files and setting up complex libraries and modifying meta-data on photos and documents. Even complex file management isn't something that you'd normally consider doing in a tablet interface, it's just not the right environment for it.
I'm wondering therefore if Sinofsky wasn't over-egging the pudding (to coin a phrase) when he said all those things in a recent blog post. There will be plenty more to shout about, new virtualisation technologies, a cold boot time of under 10 seconds and, another prediction here, the complete stripping out of the old legacy support. This alone will make Windows much smaller, leaner and quicker and reduce the number of security and other patches by up to 90%. These will be the headline features that will get people truly excited.
Either way, we'll find out tomorrow and Windows 8 whatever is said is going to be a truly exciting and, dare I say, fantastic new product that will completely shake up the computing industry. Apple, for instance, with recent iPad'esque additions to OS X will need to take stock of how Microsoft are adding these tablet-based consumer additions to the desktop as the Microsoft way looks to be much more effective than what Apple are offering.
But will we really spend our whole computing time in the new interface and not drop down to the desktop? Will people really take to it this time around and not have the desktop auto-load on their PCs? This could be out of comfort and familiarity as much as features and functionality. To get the answers to these questions we'll probably have to wait another two years to see, twelve months after it's official launch, how people are actually using the product. Tomorrow's keynote will certainly be an interesting one, but I hope Microsoft don't focus too much on what could turn out to be an underused new feature.
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Now the duplicates are more obvious.
This is below AI generated crap. It is copy of Microsoft Help website article without any relevant supporting text. Anyway you can find this information on many pages.
Yes, but why post the exact same article under a different title twice on the same day (19 march 2023), by two different writers?
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Probably they will announce that the taskbar will be placed at top, right or left, at your will.
Special event by they is a special crap for us.
If it’s Microsoft, don’t buy it.
Better brands at better prices elsewhere.
All new articles have zero count comments. :S
WTF? So, If I add one photo to 5 albums, will it count 5x on my storage?
It does not make any sense… on google photos, we can add photo to multiple albums, and it does not generate any additional space usage
I have O365 until end of this year, mostly for onedrive and probably will jump into google one
Photo storage must be kept free because customers chose gadgets just for photos and photos only.
What a nonsense. Does it mean that albums are de facto folders with copies of our pictures?
Sounds exactly like the poor coding Microsoft is known for in non-critical areas i.e. non Windows Core/Office Core.
I imagine a manager gave an employee the task to create the album feature with hardly any time so they just copied the folder feature with some cosmetic changes.
And now that they discovered what poor management results in do they go back and do the album feature properly?
Nope, just charge the customer twice.
Sounds like a go-getter that needs to be promoted for increasing sales and managing underlings “efficiently”, said the next layer of middle management.
When will those comments get fixed? Was every editor here replaced by AI and no one even works on this site?
Instead of a software company, Microsoft is now a fraud company.
For me this is proof that Microsoft has a back-door option into all accounts in their cloud.
quote “…… as the MSA key allowed the hacker group access to virtually any cloud account at Microsoft…..”
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so this MSA key which is available to MS officers can give access to all accounts in MS cloud.This is the backdoor that MS has into the cloud accounts. Lucky I never got any relevant files of mine in their (MS) cloud.
>”Now You: what is your theory?”
That someone handed an employee a briefcase full of cash and the employee allowed them access to all their accounts and systems.
Anything that requires 5-10 different coincidences to happen is highly unlikely. Occam’s razor.
Good reason to never login to your precious machine with a Microsoft a/c a.k.a. as the cloud.
The GAFAM are always very careless about our software automatically sending to them telemetry and crash dumps in our backs. It’s a reminder not to send them anything when it’s possible to opt out, and not to opt in, considering what they may contain. And there is irony in this carelessness biting them back, even if in that case they show that they are much more cautious when it’s their own data that is at stake.