I’ve posted this week Stories of the Week for January 28th, 2007. Check them out here

So I ordered my copy of Windows Vista Ultimate OEM Version for $199 from Newegg…. I’m probably going to install it next weekend once it arrives. I was going to buy the full retail version, but for $200 less I can always buy another OEM copy later… I’ll let you know what I think of it, once I install it…. so I’ll have a full review within the next couple of weeks.

Additionally I’ll eventually be buying Microsoft Office 2007 using my student discount at some point in the not too distant future… I’m not sure what version of Office yet, but I’ll figure it out

Does anybody else find this image a bit odd? I mean, why would Myspace be advertising a show from NBC, when Myspace is owned by NewsCorp, which owns fox?

I’ve posted this week Stories of the Week for January 21st, 2007. Check them out here

Just a conversation that somebody and I had a few minutes ago…

[10:05:12 PM] Wayne: I don’t know, only you can determine where you might like to go, although where you end up, is where you’re supposed to end up…
[10:07:19 PM] Wayne: you don’t have a choice in where you end up, the big things in life are set for you, it’s the little thing that you can control
[10:07:29 PM] Sarah: yea
[10:07:29 PM] Wayne: but the little things ultimately control the big things
[10:07:33 PM] Sarah: yea
[10:07:47 PM] Wayne: so the choices you make, you make them because you’re supposed to make them
[10:08:00 PM] Wayne: not because you want to necessarily make them, although sometimes you do
[10:08:44 PM] Sarah: but i dont no nearly as much as u
[10:09:11 PM] Wayne: oh, but you’ll learn
[10:10:13 PM] Sarah: yea
[10:10:16 PM] Sarah: i hope
[10:11:56 PM] Wayne: oh you will… you learn whether or not you realize it…
[10:12:02 PM] Wayne: with everything you experience, you learn
[10:12:30 PM] Wayne: you learn what works, what doesn’t, you learn how two things fit together, how things don’t
[10:13:00 PM] Wayne: you learn all of the lessons of life… the good, the bad, and the indifferent

MacWorld San Francisco

Mac, over Half of all Macs Sold are new Mac owners

over 2 billion songs sold
350 TV Shows, 1.3 million sold

Paramount Videos added to iTunes, over 100 Movies to over 250 movies offered now, over the next week
new ads for ipods

Apple TV (iTV)
wirelessly trasmit content to tv
Looks the same as back in September
Can use Video, TV shows, Podcasts, Music, or Photos
720p HD Video
40GB Hard Drive, 50 hours of video
802.11B+G, Draft N
intelProcessor
Auto-Sync from One PC
Stream Content from up to 5 pc
Sync directly with iTunes
Can use apple remote
Heroes TV Show
Shipping February, taking orders now
$299

Jobs has been Looking forward to this day for 2 1/2 Years
Widescreen iPod with Touch Controls
Revolutionary Mobile Phone
Breakthrough Internet Communications Device
All in one Device called iPhone

Apple Reinventing the Phone

Revolutionary UI
- Interplay of Hardware and Software
- Problems with Regular Phones
– Buttons are the same
– Controls static
– Can’t change down the Road
- Solved 20 years ago
– Bitmap Screen
– Pointing Device
– Uses Finters
Multi-Touch
– Works like Magic
– Far More Accurate
– No Stylus
– Ignores unintended touches
– Patented!!!!
Software
– Regular Smartphones, Baby software
– 5 Years ahead of any phone
– Runs OS X
– Syncing
– Power Management
– Security
– Multi-tasking
– graphics
– audio
– cocoa
– core animaation
Desktop Class Applications
Sync with iTunes
- Same as all iTunes
- Contacts
- Calendar
- Bookmarks
- Email Accounts
- Notes
- Charge & Sync

Design
- 3.5″ Screen
- 160pixels per inch
- 1 Button, home button
- 11.6mm
Side
- Ring/Silent
-
Back
- 2MP Camera
Top
- 3.5mm
- SimCard
- Sleep/Wake Button
Bottom
- Speaker
- Microphone
- 30 pin iPod Connector
Proximity Sensor
- Turns off Display, Touch Sensor
- Save Battery
Ambient Light Sensor
- Adjust brightness
- better User Experience
Accelerometer
- Portrait / Landscape

Touch Your Music
Widscreen Video
Gorgeous Album Art
Built in Speaker
Cover Flow

Scroll with Finger
Finger allows flipping of album art to slong list
Cover Flow is landscape
Album View will show thumbnail
All Videos are Landscape.
Double-tap will alternate between widescreen and full screen.

Reinvent the Phone
Kill App – Making Calls
- most people use recents as address book
- use contacts like never before
- Visual Voicemail
– Random Access Voicemail
– Choose the Voicemail that you can choose
– Quadband GSM+EDGE
– Wifi Bluetooth+EDR
Conference calls, up to 3 people
List of Favorites for most called
Recent Calls
- Missed Calls in Red
- Random Access voicemails

SMS
- Multiple Session SMS
- iChat Style chat window

Photos
- 2 Megapixel Camera
- Coolest Photo Management
- Library, with scrolling
- Album, Swipe to change
– Allows swapping between Portrait and Landscape…
– Photo stretching with the “pinch”
– Can choose to make it your wallpaper

Internet Communications Device
- Rich html Email
- any imap and pop3 email
- safari web browser
– first fully usable html browser on phone
– google maps
– satellite images
– traffic
– directions
– Widgets
– Weather
– stocks
– OVer Edge & Wifi
– Automatically switches to WiFi

Yahoo Mail!
- 250 Million Users
- privode free “push” imap email to all Iphone Customers, same as Blackberry
.Mac Mail
MS Exchange

Pop3
Google Gmail
AOL Mail
Most ISPs

Inline photos
inline phone numbers
- can call straight from phone
- Split View allowed
Standard email
Full Desktop Class Mail on a mobile

Safari on iPhone
shrunk down website, whole website
Put into landscape mode if you want
Zoom capability…
Multiple web pages can be open simultaneously

Stocks Widget
Weather Widget
Google Maps
- List of starbucks
- Look at that particular places
- Double tap to zoom in
- Satellite Images on the fly
The internet in your pocket

Google Search & Google Maps integrated as the default search
Yahoo Search is a choice as well.

While playing music, if you receive a phone call, it will automatically fade. You have the ability to send Email while on the phone. Once the phone call is over, you can return back to the music, where you left off

Accessories for iPhone
- Stereo Headphones
- microphone and a switch, push it together to hang up or pickup a phone call
- Bluetooth headphone, one button on the top. Automatically pairs with iPhone.

Battery Life
- 5 Hours, talk/browsing, or Video
- 16 Hours of Audio Playback

Multi-Touch
Miniturization
Power Management
OS X
Feather Weight
Precision Enclosure
3 Advanced Sensors
Desktop Class
Widescreen Video iPod
Over 200 Patents

Your Life in your Pocket

Price
4 GB: $499
8 GB: $599
Available in June ’07
Europe Q4 ’07
Asia in 2008
Exclusive partner with Cingular in the US. Multi-year exclusive partnership, with more to come…

That’s it… So I’ll probably be buying an iPhone in June, most likely the 8GB model.

so I just realized I’m like a kid on Christmas eve, awaiting all of the presents Santa Jobs will present tomorrow at Mac World Expo: SF… I’ll give a recap tomorrow

So I was just watching the stream of the Keynote from Microsoft’s Bill Gates from the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas… Here are the notes

Vista
- Searching across all vista computers
- Plug Xbox controllers into Vista PC, and play games
- Live Search, 3D fly through

Office 2007
- New layout, with ribbons, more features available for users
- Simultaneous Release of Office 2007 & Vista

Media Center in Vista
- Watch & record HD Television
- Sports Lounge – Microsoft & Fox Sports

Photos
- 2 Billion photos taken last year
- Photo gallery ~ edit and manage photos & videos.
- DVD Maker – built in

Ultimate ~ Flagship Edition
- Extras
- Group Shot
– Allows the combonation of several pictures to be made

into one.
- Dream Scene
– Full motion Desktop
– Set Video as Desktop Background

1.5 million devices supported in Vista
- Baackup
- Video
- DVD

Software
- Gadgets
- Search API
- Visulization, DirectX 10
- Windows Presentation Foundation

Touch Screens
Media Center

Vista PCs

Ultra Mobile
- Medion
-
Laptops
- Toshiba
- Acer
Gaming
- Voodoo
- Alienware
- Dell
Entertainment
- Dell
- Monoreal
- Sony

Windows Home Server
- Homes, Multiple PCs, xboxs
Storage available at all times
2nd Half 2007
HP Media Smart Server
Automated Backup
- Remote connectivity
- no need to talk about volumes
- Quite a bit of expandability
- Move data around in order to remedy drive issues
- Terabytes on the device
- AMD, Intel
- Great Simplicity

Connected Entertainment
- Entertainment, whenever, whereever they want
- community, share content & ideas
- Needs HW/ SW & Service

URGE
- continuing to be commited to it. 350 Partners around the

world.
- Zune Media Player
- Ship & Sell 1 million copies of zune

Mobility & Mobile Phones
- Calls
- Emails
- IM
Movies
Tv
Music
Connected Entertianment on the Phone

BlackJAck
Treo
Dash
Q
driving for Windows Mobile
- outsells blackberry

Gaming
- 200 Million Gamers
- #1 Gaming Platform
- More Powerful with DirectX 10
- Easier to use, simple
- Safer with family settings
- Hardcore Gamers, Casual Gamers
- Growing Market
- Desktop, on the Go
- Xbox 360
10.4 million
37 countries
160 HD Games
- Gears of War: 2.7 million copies, Halo Like franchise.
- 300+ Titles end of the year…
- GTA 4, Mass Affect, DDR, Guitar Hero.
- Halo 3.
Xbox Live
- 5 Million Members
- Expand Community
- Take it to a whole new level
- Windows/Windows Vista, Bring Windows to Xbox 360

Live on Windows (Xbox live)
- Just like Xbox 360 Live, compatabile with Vista
- Applies to both Hard Core Games and Casual Games
- Live on the Live Service,Summer ’07
- 3 Billion hours of gaming

TV & Movies
- HDTVs were the thing to buy
- 4 Ways to get HD Movies
- HD-DVD Player, xbox 360.
- HD-DVD Format top selling

- Media Center
– 80% of PCs sold as Media Center
– 30 Million world wide.
– network with XBOX 360, all experience you want.
– from media center streamed to 360
– Media Center Extender

- Xbox Live Video
– 1000 hours of content
– Adding Lionsgate

- IPTV
– In Market,
– AT&T
– BT
– DeutscheTelekon
– SwissTelecom
– Major part of delivery over the next 4 years
– Available on Xbox 360
– Available Holiday 2007

More choices from consumers
take content whenever where
share it with their friends

Give connected experiences 24/7
not sure about during sleep times

Connecting in the Car
- simple
- incredibly simple, safe commands
- People spend hour and a half in their car

New Sync
- fully voice-activated
- totally integrates, all electronics
– cell phones
– zuines
– ipods
– seamlessly
– access to full capability of your phone
– never having to download your phone book
– every personalized setting
– place, receive calls
– maintain entering and exiting vehichle
– text messages read to them
– translates emoticons and the like
– ability to be full entertainment platform
– most USB storage devices
– flash & zip drives
– Uses Windows Auto Software
– Roll it out quickly on a dozen ford products in 2007
– Including Ford Edge & Crossover
– Improve, capability, appeal, and value to vehicles

Moving Forward in years ahead 4 or 5 years
- Use voice to interface with PC
- ability to have a camera to do face recognition
- microsoft home of the future, new version
- Knows information about you
– Special offers
– coupons, and store that away and use later
– Browse menu and like
– View through camera, delivery of package
– Kitechen: Projecting images onto a surface
– Uses RFID, and brings up ingredients
– Brings up Recipie

Bedroom
- Change screen if you want, to do whatever you’d like to.
- Control from Ultra Mobile PC.