Windows Vista @ KLCC..
went to Kuala Lumpur Convention Centre today.. FYI, it's located at Kuala Lumpur City Centre.. lol.. KLCC @ KLCC @ KL.. i was laughing to myself the first time i noticed.. well, back to the story.. Microsoft was launching a Sneak/Technial Preview of Windows Vista.. of course i went for the Technical part..
quite a lot of people who would like to know about this latest product from Microsoft.. the registration started at 0745, but as a typical Malaysian, we love to be late.. heh.. as i (went there with 3 colleague) reached KLCC @ 0850, there's a lot of people still queing up for registration and by the time i've registered, around 0910 (as have to write down my details due to no business card), the event has started already.. to my surprise, the Technical Hall was quarter fill with people.. i thought this is a big event.. n then, i knew why.. as i said before, latecomers.. n i thought i was late.. people kept coming in while the event was running and only at 0945, the hall was filled with peoples.. heh.. but.. hmm.. i was a bit dissappointed as the main event, the introduction session was held at the Sneak Hall.. the ones at the Technical Hall (me) was only given a live feed from the other hall.. we just kept staring at the projection screen at the empty stage.. heh.. we heard people applausing and cheering from the feed, but peoples at the Technical Hall was like a ghost town.. dead silence.. lol.. i noticed that the other people at the Technical Hall was getting impatient and started to moved to the Sneak Hall and some of them started to go out and have a quick puff.. and one of them was me.. hehehe.. i realized that the reason why the main event was held at the other hall was due to the press n such were staying at that hall.. *sigh* but, what the heck, i came for knowledge..
they gave a brief introduction about Vista.. the GUI (graphical user interface), neew features and such.. to me, it was a resemblance to Mac OS.. Microsoft tried to put some widget at the desktop sidebar and trying to call them 'Gadgets'.. lol.. but, it's their right to do so.. vista has a feature that are some kind of screenshots everytime u hover ur mouse over the running programs list at the taskbar.. cool.. and for those who likes to press alt+tab (to swap between running programs), a new feature has been added.. u can now press windows key+tab and u can see the same program swapper but with a cool screenies.. whoa..!! and the other great feature was if u're in a worst case scenario.. i bet u will as vista would take a lot of memories (minimum requirement IS 1Gb of RAM), u were somehow out of virtual memories.. all of your running programs has started to slow down n u're started to panic as u have tons of work to do.. u can now just plug in your thumbdrive (flash drive/memory stick whatever u call it) and set your thumbdrive a temporary virtual memory.. whoa..!! n u can save all or continues ur task until u can save it and reboot your system to refresh your system..
by 1130, the real event for each hall has started.. the first speaker, one of the managers of Microsoft Malaysia, gave a speech about Microsoft Exchange 2007.. and i was (for the first time actually) astonished by the functionality and the simple steps of configuring Ms Exchange.. whoa..!! the new Ms Exchange has a feature of (the best part of it) PABX mail checking function.. well, i cant remember the exact name of that function.. heh.. that means, users can check their email and appointments and tasks from Outlook by using their normal phones.. imaging this.. while u're driving to some destination, and u just want to check an important email from someone, or u wanna check wether u have a meeting on the evening, but u didnt have an internet access or u just cant use u're laptop (as u're driving *duh*), u can just call up your pc (huh..??), and your computer will answer the call and communicate with u telling u about your unread emails or an appointment or a meeting.. whoa..!! u can just quickly add a note to your tasks, for example, the spokesperson there told the machine this " I'll be late" and the machine quickly recognize it and sends it to the other meeting members stating that u'll be late for the meeting.. the machine operator can also read the emails for u.. i was not impress at first as maybe it was programmed to respond to some voice command, but as the spokesperson continues, the communication between him and the machine operator was just like a real communication between someone with his/her real life personal assistant.. n by the time the spokesperson said "Goodbye", the command to end the call, the machine was actually babbling about something, but quickly recognize that command and ask the spokesperson back "I heard u're saying goodbye, do u want to end this call?" i was like "wtf?" and the spokesperson earned himself a big round of applause from the audience..
and then, there was another speaker giving some speech about some other product that has not caught my attention.. hehe.. i went out for an early lunch and came back and went straight to the exhibition hall.. i walked around the hall and view all those developers trying to persuade us to buy their product by saying windows vista compatible n such.. heh.. but.. i was shock to know that the new windows vista came bundled with my latest project.. huh..!! occay.. i give up.. my latest project was to build a HTPC (Home Theater PC).. a pc that is dedicated for a media portal for me to play any media files such as movies, musics, pictures, tv streams, n such, all connected to a large screen tube.. seems nice huh..?? i'll tell u guys about the project later.. back to the story.. heh.. Microsoft Media Center is bundled within Windows Vista.. and that means, if i want the best results, i have to get myself Windows Vista.. hmm.. but there's only one booth showing their HTPC product.. Techdos if i'm not mistaken.. and i ask the representative (he didnt interested entertaining me at first) about the technical details.. and of course the price.. n quite a surprise to know that for a system without plasma or lcd tv or display unit, it cost u around RM5k to RM8k..!! huh.. i think it has only cost me RM2k for now.. as i still cant find the best (cheap) HTPC casing.. but still, the representative gave me a good news though.. and he promise me to meet at the coming PIKOM PC Fair on 1st to 3rd of December 2006.. cant wait..!!
and during the exhibition, some representative from O2 was giving a speech about the latest O2 Stealth.. their tagline was "It Not Just A Phone".. think so.. i was interested as i'm looking forward to buy myself a new PDA Phone, and of course one for Kecheq.. and at the end of the speech, he made an announcement that was nearly made me faint.. they're giving away two O2 Stealth today..!! i pushed myself in front of the crowd to make myself visible to them.. but the O2 guy dont know how to give out those phones.. he just kept scrathing his head and finally came up with a question.. "whoever has a windows based phone, please raise your hand and show me your phones..!!" i quickly grab my phone and show my old trustee phone to him.. and there was another few peoples respond to that announcement.. i think i was lucky as i was quick.. but.. *sigh* he said "unfortunately, u guys cant have this phone as u guys have already experienced the windows mobile phones.." and again, i was saying to myself "WTF..??" and by the time he announce "anyone who doesnt have a windows mobile phones....." i was halfway to the exit door.. better luck next time.. heh..
quite a lot of people who would like to know about this latest product from Microsoft.. the registration started at 0745, but as a typical Malaysian, we love to be late.. heh.. as i (went there with 3 colleague) reached KLCC @ 0850, there's a lot of people still queing up for registration and by the time i've registered, around 0910 (as have to write down my details due to no business card), the event has started already.. to my surprise, the Technical Hall was quarter fill with people.. i thought this is a big event.. n then, i knew why.. as i said before, latecomers.. n i thought i was late.. people kept coming in while the event was running and only at 0945, the hall was filled with peoples.. heh.. but.. hmm.. i was a bit dissappointed as the main event, the introduction session was held at the Sneak Hall.. the ones at the Technical Hall (me) was only given a live feed from the other hall.. we just kept staring at the projection screen at the empty stage.. heh.. we heard people applausing and cheering from the feed, but peoples at the Technical Hall was like a ghost town.. dead silence.. lol.. i noticed that the other people at the Technical Hall was getting impatient and started to moved to the Sneak Hall and some of them started to go out and have a quick puff.. and one of them was me.. hehehe.. i realized that the reason why the main event was held at the other hall was due to the press n such were staying at that hall.. *sigh* but, what the heck, i came for knowledge..
they gave a brief introduction about Vista.. the GUI (graphical user interface), neew features and such.. to me, it was a resemblance to Mac OS.. Microsoft tried to put some widget at the desktop sidebar and trying to call them 'Gadgets'.. lol.. but, it's their right to do so.. vista has a feature that are some kind of screenshots everytime u hover ur mouse over the running programs list at the taskbar.. cool.. and for those who likes to press alt+tab (to swap between running programs), a new feature has been added.. u can now press windows key+tab and u can see the same program swapper but with a cool screenies.. whoa..!! and the other great feature was if u're in a worst case scenario.. i bet u will as vista would take a lot of memories (minimum requirement IS 1Gb of RAM), u were somehow out of virtual memories.. all of your running programs has started to slow down n u're started to panic as u have tons of work to do.. u can now just plug in your thumbdrive (flash drive/memory stick whatever u call it) and set your thumbdrive a temporary virtual memory.. whoa..!! n u can save all or continues ur task until u can save it and reboot your system to refresh your system..
by 1130, the real event for each hall has started.. the first speaker, one of the managers of Microsoft Malaysia, gave a speech about Microsoft Exchange 2007.. and i was (for the first time actually) astonished by the functionality and the simple steps of configuring Ms Exchange.. whoa..!! the new Ms Exchange has a feature of (the best part of it) PABX mail checking function.. well, i cant remember the exact name of that function.. heh.. that means, users can check their email and appointments and tasks from Outlook by using their normal phones.. imaging this.. while u're driving to some destination, and u just want to check an important email from someone, or u wanna check wether u have a meeting on the evening, but u didnt have an internet access or u just cant use u're laptop (as u're driving *duh*), u can just call up your pc (huh..??), and your computer will answer the call and communicate with u telling u about your unread emails or an appointment or a meeting.. whoa..!! u can just quickly add a note to your tasks, for example, the spokesperson there told the machine this " I'll be late" and the machine quickly recognize it and sends it to the other meeting members stating that u'll be late for the meeting.. the machine operator can also read the emails for u.. i was not impress at first as maybe it was programmed to respond to some voice command, but as the spokesperson continues, the communication between him and the machine operator was just like a real communication between someone with his/her real life personal assistant.. n by the time the spokesperson said "Goodbye", the command to end the call, the machine was actually babbling about something, but quickly recognize that command and ask the spokesperson back "I heard u're saying goodbye, do u want to end this call?" i was like "wtf?" and the spokesperson earned himself a big round of applause from the audience..
and then, there was another speaker giving some speech about some other product that has not caught my attention.. hehe.. i went out for an early lunch and came back and went straight to the exhibition hall.. i walked around the hall and view all those developers trying to persuade us to buy their product by saying windows vista compatible n such.. heh.. but.. i was shock to know that the new windows vista came bundled with my latest project.. huh..!! occay.. i give up.. my latest project was to build a HTPC (Home Theater PC).. a pc that is dedicated for a media portal for me to play any media files such as movies, musics, pictures, tv streams, n such, all connected to a large screen tube.. seems nice huh..?? i'll tell u guys about the project later.. back to the story.. heh.. Microsoft Media Center is bundled within Windows Vista.. and that means, if i want the best results, i have to get myself Windows Vista.. hmm.. but there's only one booth showing their HTPC product.. Techdos if i'm not mistaken.. and i ask the representative (he didnt interested entertaining me at first) about the technical details.. and of course the price.. n quite a surprise to know that for a system without plasma or lcd tv or display unit, it cost u around RM5k to RM8k..!! huh.. i think it has only cost me RM2k for now.. as i still cant find the best (cheap) HTPC casing.. but still, the representative gave me a good news though.. and he promise me to meet at the coming PIKOM PC Fair on 1st to 3rd of December 2006.. cant wait..!!
and during the exhibition, some representative from O2 was giving a speech about the latest O2 Stealth.. their tagline was "It Not Just A Phone".. think so.. i was interested as i'm looking forward to buy myself a new PDA Phone, and of course one for Kecheq.. and at the end of the speech, he made an announcement that was nearly made me faint.. they're giving away two O2 Stealth today..!! i pushed myself in front of the crowd to make myself visible to them.. but the O2 guy dont know how to give out those phones.. he just kept scrathing his head and finally came up with a question.. "whoever has a windows based phone, please raise your hand and show me your phones..!!" i quickly grab my phone and show my old trustee phone to him.. and there was another few peoples respond to that announcement.. i think i was lucky as i was quick.. but.. *sigh* he said "unfortunately, u guys cant have this phone as u guys have already experienced the windows mobile phones.." and again, i was saying to myself "WTF..??" and by the time he announce "anyone who doesnt have a windows mobile phones....." i was halfway to the exit door.. better luck next time.. heh..
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