Windows 7: Find and Organize Part 1 - The User Experience | Dan

DCMonkey
Monkey see, monkey do, monkey will destroy you!

#Oct 28th, 2008 @ 4:19 PM

The point I was trying to make is that WMP12 will use WDS and its associated metadata writing features instead of its own homwgrown library/metadata system. Therefore the problem you are having specifically with WMP not writing metadata to files may go away.

And they probably won't bother fixing code in the current WMP that's going to go away in WMP12.

spivonious

These are the videos I want to see! Windows 7 looks to be everything Vista was supposed to be.

The features shown in this video seem to be what WinFS's goal was - to make users forget about where the actual file was stored and concentrate on the task at hand.

intelman

Can I bribe anyone at Microsoft to send me the same bits PDC attendees got?

Visual Studio 2010 + Windows 7 M3 haha.

This organization is quite a bit better than what is in Vista, but I still do not think Vista is that bad. I use a save search for my documents pictures and music, but it certainly doesn't work the way it does in this video.

Defcon

Will Libraries work like Smartfolders on OSX? Saved searches in Vista are horrendously slow and don't work very well. Can I define my own Libraries? I'd like to be able to say "This is a view of all my avi files >20min on all my disks that I haven't seen yet", have this query run locally as well as my WHS shares, and be updated in realtime.

And why can't file metadata be attached to every file (for god's sake, NTFS has had ADS forever) instead of the stupid limitation on tagging only certain types of files. If we can tag any file, define custom searches that use that metadata, and compose Libraries out of these searches, then we are very close to the holy grail of WinFS. But I'm almost 100% sure this is not what we'll get.

jh71283
Throw new System.Beverage. OutOfCoffeeException()

In reply to Bas

#Oct 28th, 2008 @ 4:19 PM

I get the same thing Bas.

I remember an older version of media player (7 or 8 I think) had a command in the menu to 'commit' your data to the files, but that disappeared in subsequent versions. Sad

Bas
It finds lightbulbs.

In reply to DCMonkey

#Oct 28th, 2008 @ 5:11 PM

The point I was trying to make is that WMP12 will use WDS

Ah, I missed that part, thanks. That would be positive.

I remember an older version of media player (7 or 8 I think) had a command in the menu to 'commit' your data to the files, but that disappeared in subsequent versions

No, that's still there. In the Media Library menu, you can choose 'commit changes to files' or whatever that's called in English. Not that it works, of course...

GRiNSER
GRiNSER puts a smile on your face :)

Will the Preview Pane be as accessible/powerful as in OS X? When I compare Vista with OS X on my box and macbook pro, it is so much easier to preview stuff in finder by simply pressing the SPACE key (everything else isn't that great in finder *g*) and then the preview comes as an overlay which can be simply closed by another press on the SPACE key. Simple, efficient (uses overlay to have more space for showing the previewed content in a great way) and fast concept. Couldn't you take some cues from them?