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On the mobile front we announced we will be talking about the next version of Windows phones at MIX10.  March 15th-17th in Las Vegas again (http://visitmix.com/News/Thank-You-from-the-MIX09-Team) so stay tuned.

 

My Netbook came with Vista Basic and I have been running Windows 7 Ultimate on it.  Performance and battery life are noticeably better in my opinion.  Not sure about Windows XP I never ran it on it.  I imagine if you have an older Netbook that wasn't Win7 certified than you might see better performance on XP. 

By and large though there are so many improvements in Win7 to help battery life.  For instance on XP if you shut off your wireless card most of the Network services still run and take up cpu cycles (thus draining more battery).  In Windows 7 there is something new called Trigger Start services and you will find even some of the default services utilize that.  For example lmhosts service will not go out and try and get an ipaddress if it sees the nic is disabled. 

If I am doing any serious development though I try and plug into AC power and run on "High Performance."  I need all the horsepower I can get from the little guy. 

 

LOL - that is awesome Wesmac!  Thanks for posting the link.  Another benefit of having the same IIS7 codebase from Windows Server 2008 on Vista.  Not officially supported but worth playing around with on your dev box.  =) 

Hi Dylan,

Yes - I used a trial in the screencast which has the time limitation.  Wanted to be as realistic as possible. =) 

If you haven't seen it yet, check out the cool new SharePoint Developer site (http://www.microsoft.com/click/sharepointdeveloper/ .  It has an updated VPC image as well as some great tutorials.

Thanks,
Dave

Thanks!  I get bored with my desktop a lot and seem to change it around every few weeks or so.  I have had the start menubar on the top before, on the left, and in this one it was on the right - hehe. 

The OSX like launcher is called Stardock ObjectDock and I have been really impressed by it.  They have a free version too that is fully functional.  You can download it here:

http://www.stardock.com/products/ObjectDock/

Who says Windows has to look boring right?  

-Dave

Presentation Templates is just a term used to describe the bundles you typically see a lot of design agencies and partners offering now.
 
Basically it is a customized MOSS Publishing Site that has been set up with numerous workflows, custom css files and usually some added on Features.  They will then save these out as custom site templates that they can offer to their customers.  Typically the only thing that needs to be added afterwards is some look and feel (which can be done via SharePoint Designer or directly on the site itself) and Flash content.

You can find a ton of different partner solutions up on OBACentral here.

If you curious about creating custom features, workflows, or more about web publishing Ted Pattison has some nice screencasts on Channel9 you can find here.

I agree about GFW.com I am curious now too.  I don't know who was involved with it specifically but you might try checking out Sharepointpedia.com.  It has a good community around it that might have the answer.  They cover lots of topics and solutions too ranging from Sharepoint Customization to Silverlight.

Ahh sorry about the confusion PreachingLlama.  I know there were plans to move off CMS now that most of the functionality in CMS is in the Presentation Templates for MOSS.  I guess things are still in transition like how parts of Microsoft.com have been moved over. 

There are certainly public facing sites we own however that are on MOSS like http://www.gamesforwindows.com and http://www.obacentral.com/.
 
The intent of the Xbox example was to show that an internet facing SharePoint site doesn't have to look like SharePoint. 

There is a nice list available of known SharePoint internet sites you can view here:

http://www.wssdemo.com/Pages/websites.aspx

Thanks for checking out the video!  Feel free to send me any suggestions or feedback you have for future videos.  Be sure to drop by the Devs4Devs group next time you are on Facebook too. 

The one you saw me use in the video was the 30 day trial.  You can actually extend that one by entering a key from MSDN but that only gets you 12 months.  You will most likely wind up rolling your own or having people Terminal Service in to the Dev Box.  Another option is to develop the Web Parts locally without the VPC but remember when you deploy them to the remote server it will kick off an iisrestart.