Video – Zune on Windows Mobile 7 vs. The Greater Sum
Just saw this fun video from a post over at Live Side… funny thing, they hone in on whether or not one of the device interfaces is a preview of Windows Mobile 7 with a Zune app. To me, the the far more interesting thing is the qualitatively new, boundary-spanning experience they paint using technologies that are here (or almost here) today.
Take, for example, the guy playing a video game, getting pinged with an IM (XBOX Live and ties in Messenger contacts), and then using touch UI (coming in Windows 7) to switch over to a rich graphical interface (either WPF or Silverlight 3 running out-of-browser) monitoring his cloud app presumably hosted on Windows Azure (available now in CTP, with monitoring APIs), and using the UI to literally “dial up” the capacity for his app.
One place the video doesn’t go far enough… I’ll be surprised if someone in the future has to go in and manually turn up the capacity. Ok, maybe in the first release. But I think the direction of the thinking is that you will define rules that automagically keep response time under a certain threshold, up to a specific cost point… and then enforce new rules if the cost point is crossed. For example, “maintain less than 3 second response time, up to $500/month, and then keep a 4 second response time up to $1000/month”.
Of course, if the guy doesn’t get interrupted during his video game, then you don’t get to show the cool touch UI or capacity dial. :)
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