The Advancement of Windows: Michael Fortin - Windows Vista SuperFetch

Charles,

Thanks for a quite interesting video! There was so much new talked about Superfetch and memory management in Vista overall (with all the new Ready* technologies).

few general questions:

Any idea when and which manufacturers are coming out with devices that work with ReadyBoost/Drive, Superfetch, etc? Also, what sort of USB flash drives are recommended and if there are any vendors specializing their devices just for these improvements in vista?

I've seen this in few demos and it's been mostly the same scripted demo - where you can see how superfetch/readyboost is behaving .. (i.e. see how much it gained by fetching the pages from the flash/hybrid drive compared to the disk I/Os, etc). The previous video you did on ReadyDrive had this demo I think. Any idea if Vista will have (or has currently) a similar ability for end users (or admins), or there are plans to publish an API or working example to get this information?

Lastly, if you can talk about it - is Office for example doing anything to provider user presence? When Michael was talking about the user not available at his/her computer (say gone to lunch), Outlook giving out presence info came first to my mind. Mind you, that is a really cool thing, and hopefully if that is the case - more and more applications (trusted ones) can give similar information. I guess he did talk about it when discussing the future improvements for developers.

- Keeron