Thor Olav Sørensen caught and listed what he could decypher from Steve Sinofsky’s teaser slide at the W8 Build Dev Conference.
These aren’t “for sure” and some were not self explanatory… might be stuff in development or just ideas at this point.
Still, it’s a pretty interesting list of “no promises, but…”. Here’s a partial quote of “The List” (sorry, you should have TM’d it, Po’):
- Battery Life
- Time/Battery/Date/Network status
- Browser
- Protection against app (…)/ malware scan
- Apps are certified
- Pre-boot reset
- OEM Activation
- Windows Adapts To Your Location
- Hardening For Genuine
- Powershell Support
- Spotlight
- Integrated Load Balancing
- Pre-Install
- Identity Management Service – Live Integration
- SendTo
- Windows Performance Analyzer
- Desktop Apps
- Key Management Services
- Start
- Multi Hand (…)
- BitLocker Self-encrypting Drive
- Credential Management interface
- Tile groupings
- Files Folders Search
- Tiles
- Optional Public Key Infrastructure
- Faster resume from hibernation
- Application package
- Always On Always Connected
- Windows update maintenance scheduler integration
- Windows logo kit
- Reliable rollback
- PCI for efficiency / PCI 3.0 for performance
- Richedit
- Certification status
- My Apps
- Developer portal
- Task manager – users view
- native code (…)
- Reader
- Animation in HTML
- BitLocker data-only encryption
- Factory reset
- Remote lab exchange
- Ratings reviews reputation & report a problem
- JavaScript control model
- Task manager small app view
Interestingly, my speculation about “gestures” (and therefore Kinect) is on that list somewhere…
Thought you might be interested in seeing this, so here’s the link to view the whole thing: http://www.winrumors.com/heres-a-list-of-300-windows-8-features-that-microsoft-didnt-show/