"All promised features were cut from Vista." This is a commonly heard complaint about Windows Vista on the internet. While there certainly is a lot to complain about when it comes to Windows Vista, the mythical 'cancelled features' certainly is not one of them. Let me explain why.
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There weren't any "promises" made in that video. It was a promotional video meant to get developers (the people the PDC is aimed at) thinking about new interfaces and concepts for their own apps. It's no different from all those mockups and videos of future computer hardware they make:
http://www.istartedsomething.com/20071128/microsoft-ammunition-long...
http://www.istartedsomething.com/20070917/revisiting-microsofts-vis...
They made dozens of these concept videos and mockups. Obviously there weren't a "promise". Did you think they were going to ship 50 different Ui's in the box (note the Star Trek UI concept):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HsJioBzQk84&feature=related
It wasn't anything like the what they actually "promised" at the PDC:
http://video.msn.com/video.aspx?vid=34f0d8f8-f701-4db3-905c-6559447...
Do you go to an Auto Show and think the final products are all going to look like the concepts and have 500+ HP like the models there?
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2005-11-21
You're missing the forest for the trees. 90% of that video was WPF and DWM, which they shipped.
So I see your video and raise you several more:
http://uxevangelist.blogspot.com/2007/11/amongst-all-of-excitement-...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Os-j8OF1s0E
http://labs.live.com/photosynth/videodemo.html