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Bundled Applications.

I believe the start menu and task bar will change before the official release. I’m working with Microsoft on fine tuning this setup. More to come.

Basic applications – calculator, stickies and solitaire:

A look at the Windows Explorer

Libraries. My Documents are going away and everything is going to live under Libraries

A sample search, term used “a”

Network and sharing center and date time settings

IE8 nothing too different here from the current release

Testing Internet Explorer 8

Windows Media player. Getting better but I still like my old winamp player better. Much better then itunes ;)

Comes with some sample media

Action Center notifications

Doesn’t Windows defender count as Virus Protection?

System properties – will almost certainly be some updates to this before release. Computer name tab.

System properties – hardware tab and device manager.

Advanced tab and performance options.

System protection tab – looks like some new features here. Probably more to come.

Remote tab nothing new here – yet!

  A look at the new Remote Desktop Connection client / terminal services client. I think we’ll see a new major version release before launch but there are already some new features showing up in this release.

A closer look at the new RDP client

Scaling options would be really awesome here as well as a way to control the console screen and sharing.

Local resources tabs. More granular control of the audio options would be really nice. Such as quality settings.

Experience tab – looks like some new options here.

Satellite option – as far as I know this predefined settings just adjust what check marks are selected.

Same old stuff here in the advanced tab.

New media center looks really nice. Curious which editions this will be included with.

That’s it for now, dependant upon the response here we’ll review further in depth.