Office and other parts of the company had large investments in the web and HTML. There was no plausible path where those investments would move over to Avalon, much less expecting the entire industry to move. It was absurd as well as being unconscionable. It was not until Windows 7 that we re-staffed the IE team and restarted aggressive investment in IE and standard web technologies.
As I detailed in the post Leaky by Design , one of the key challenges for developers of frameworks like Avalon is how to expose features at different levels so that applications can tie in at the appropriate functional level and not pay excessive performance costs.
By only exposing functionality at a very high level, they made all their work essentially unavailable to more sophisticated applications like the Office apps that would like to tie in at lower levels. It would take 10 more years until the release of Windows 10 before they really resolved these design issues. Avalon also made a bet on the PC graphics model driven by power-hungry graphics cards.
The mobile graphics model, while sharing some elements, is mostly focused on achieving smooth animation by taking pre-rendered textures or layers and zooming, panning and blending them. The number of layers is carefully constrained so the mobile graphics processor can achieve the fast frame rates needed for smooth animation and user interaction with very low power usage.
The graphics model Avalon was exposing was effectively moving in the opposite direction. The challenges with WinFS were in some ways even more fundamental than for Avalon; while Avalon shipped independently and some key concepts were used as the basis for the UI components that shipped in Windows 8 and 10, WinFS was ultimately abandoned. As initially envisioned, WinFS would become the file system. The challenge was that replacing the file system with a completely new implementation that provides major new functionality while at the same time appearing essentially unchanged to the vast array of existing software is an incredibly daunting task.
Especially because key Windows core engineering was busy with other efforts security and bit , WinFS was built as a component that would sit on the side and provide additional functionality for searching and rich queries. This design meant that WinFS would incur significant additional performance cost with fewer opportunities to optimize end-to-end.
As with any new feature, those costs would have to be balanced with the feature benefits. Microsoft already had a desktop search engine that operated at significantly lower performance cost than WinFS. Furthermore, incurring such an upheaval in the ecosystem for local PC search right as most information was moving off the PC and into the cloud was a major misreading of where innovation was heading, driven by this relentless effort to try to focus innovation on the rich client.
While some desktop applications and almost all internal IT-written ones use relational stores for their internal data model, they do not want to expose those data models for unmonitored read and write by other applications. I detailed some of the fundamental reasons in the post referenced above, Leaky by Design.
There were and are lots of other choices for applications that want to use a relational store. Of course the long-term direction was that all this data was moving into the cloud, not getting trapped in a local PC storage system. The decision to continue investing in this managed stack and push it out of the OS release would have long-running implications well after Vista.
The management team accepted the reality that it would not be part of the OS release but continued to view these layers as the primary locus of client innovation. He would later fight the battle of what was the core Windows runtime for the Windows 8 product cycle but effectively deferred that fight by pushing those teams out and not creating alternate efforts inside the Windows organization. This had long-running consequences. It continued the internal investments and costs.
It continued the public perception that the managed runtimes were the future of Windows. It also divorced these managed code teams from even thinking about deep investments focused on exposing new hardware innovation rather than building a purely independent middleware layer.
In fact, in an aborted effort to compete with Flash, these teams packaged core components together into Silverlight and even delivered it across different OS platforms. It would be harder to provide clearer evidence that all this software innovation was completely divorced from a focus on how to uniquely expose hardware innovation in a way that only an OS is capable of. I do not claim to have had unique insight during this period.
I was frustrated by the focus on these managed code layers and their uselessness for most Office scenarios but I could not articulate the strategic issues clearly. In fact, the OS innovations in iOS were what made it so clear in retrospect how wrong-headed the overall world view driving this work was.
The accusations of bloat I have made against the managed C stack clearly does not explain the challenges with Vista performance since the managed layers were pushed out of the release. There is no single explanation for the increase in requirements.
In fact, an important factor in this overall performance cost and the overall quality issues was the race to shipping that happened at the end of the release. Performance results come from big decisions but often comes from many small decisions and small improvements made by long hours spent analyzing code, driving results and balancing costs and benefits.
That time simply was not available. Vista made an important change to the driver model that moved this software out of the core OS kernel and into a layer that could be managed more robustly. By moving this code out of the kernel, Windows could make the overall system much more robust. The changes made to the driver model required large code changes by all the vast landscape of hardware providers that wrote code for Windows.
The advantage of that big moat becomes an anchor when trying to make these types of large scale changes across the ecosystem. Because Vista was so often delayed, hardware vendors had a difficult time scheduling or prioritizing this work. Much was not ready at the time of Vista launch, which meant that many users first experience with Vista was influenced by these missing or very flaky drivers.
The collapse of processor scaling I mentioned at the start of this post is just part of the performance story here. This simple doubling pattern is familiar to consumers as it manifests in the increase in processor speeds, increases in amount of dynamic memory, increases in storage capacity and the increases in communication speed they came to expect.
The reality is quite a bit more complicated. Increases in processor speed were accompanied by increases in power use and heat output. Processor speeds could not scale without unacceptable increases in power requirements and heat output. When you look at charts of processor speed trends, there is a right turn in , right in the middle of the Vista debacle.
Perhaps the worst problem in creating a balanced PC system was the increase in disk storage capacity but a far slower increase in the number of random IO operations per second.
This meant that larger programs could fit on those larger disks and in that larger memory but took much longer to start up. Vista was shipping into an environment where the shift to mobility was gaining more and more speed. Revenue totals for laptops passed desktops in ; by laptops also passed desktops in total units sold.
Microsoft could continue building new APIs but mostly the devices already did what users needed. Sufficiency is sort of like an economic recession. Even as the use cases for desktop computers did not change, there continued to be important evolution in the basic hardware that kept participants in the ecosystem focused on trying to leverage these innovations into new use cases.
Decades after laptops were introduced, I still want an even lighter laptop with an even longer battery life. But what I use that laptop for generally has not changed. Note that I am focusing here on form factor sufficiency. Overall computing requirements across the economy have continued to grow explosively. But faster and more pervasive communications enable more flexibility in how an application allocates its computing requirements data and processing between different nodes in the system.
Many influences push to place more of that processing in the server or cloud and have for the last two decades. I would rather power those compute cycles off the Grand Coulee Dam with a server in eastern Washington than have to lug a battery pack around with me. If the data needs to be accessed from multiple devices or accessed by multiple users, I want to store and process it in a server, not on a local PC.
Continuing improvements to wireless communication and end-to-end communication bandwidth overall make this an extremely stable state for device computing. We do not see this only in desktop including laptop computing. The tablet probably blasted to form factor sufficiency faster than any broad consumer computing device we have ever seen.
Actually, a broader perspective would say that is untrue. We were struggling with weight, battery life, processing capability, input modes and overall responsiveness in different incarnations of the tablet for decades. But when the iPad arrived on the scene with its combination of screen size, weight, battery life, touch input, processing power and instant-on we had turned through an inflection point of sufficiency.
The engineers at Maytag working on the next iteration of the washing machine probably feel the same way. Yes, people want better screens, faster processors and longer battery life. Smartphones seem to be going through a similar transition. In fact, as communication improves and software better manages how data is transparently managed between the service and the device, this becomes even more true. One is so fundamental as to be trite. Execution matters.
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Read More. Tip: In your case, the files that need to be backed up may be more. You can drag them to a folder in Windows Explorer and then choose that folder to back up.
Of course, you can choose each file one by one and then start the backup. The dark program window makes your clips the center of attention, and you can switch among workspaces for Assembly, Editing, Color, Effects, Audio, and Titles.
You can edit these or create your own custom workspaces, and even pull off any of the panels and float them wherever you want on your display s. You can create content bins based on search terms, too. By default, the editor uses a four-panel layout, with the source preview at top left, a project preview at top right, your project assets at lower-left, and the timeline tracks along the lower right. You can add and remove control buttons to taste; Adobe has removed a bunch by default for a cleaner interface.
Since many editors rely on keyboard shortcuts like J, K, and L for navigating through a project, fewer buttons and a cleaner screen make a lot of sense. It's a very flexible interface, and you can undock and drag around windows to your heart's content.
Here's another helpful feature: When you hover the mouse over a clip in the source panel, it scrubs through the video. Premiere Pro is touch-friendly and lets you move clips and timeline elements around with a finger or tap buttons.
You can also pinch-zoom the timeline or video preview window. You can even set in and out points with a tap on thumbnails in the source bin.
Final Cut supports the MacBook Pro with Touch Bar, but I prefer the on-screen touch capability, since, unlike the Touch Bar, the touch screen doesn't require you to take your eyes off the screen and therefore your video project. When you click on a media thumbnail, you get a scrubber bar and can mark in and out points right there before you insert the clip into your project. Premiere offers several ways to insert a clip into your sequence. You can click the Insert or Overwrite buttons in the source preview monitor, or you can just drag the clip's thumbnail from the media browser onto the timeline or onto the preview monitor.
Holding Command or Ctrl on Windows makes your clip overwrite the timeline contents. You can even drag files directly from the OS's file system into the project. The media browser also has tabs for Effects, Markers, and History, the last of which can be help you back to a good spot if you mess up.
Markers, too, have been improved, with the ability to attach notes and place multiple markers at the same time point. Markers can have durations in frame time codes, and the Markers tab shows you entries with all this for every marker in a clip or sequence. Clicking on a marker entry here jumps you right to its point in the movie. Any device that can create video footage is fair game for import to Premiere Pro.
The software can capture from tape, with scene detection, shuttle transport, and time-code settings. Resolutions of up to 8K are supported. And, of course, you can import video from smartphones and DSLRs, as well. For high-frame-rate video, the program lets you use proxy media for faster editing.
PREL file format. But note that you may lose some effects, even things like image filters and motion tracking. They're all clearly accessible at the left of the timeline. The cursor shape and color give visual cues about which kind of edit you're dealing with. A welcome capability is that you can actually make edits while playback is rolling. In a nice touch, holding down the mouse button while moving a clip edit point or double-clicking on an edit point opens a view of both clips in the preview window.
If you double-click on the edit point, it switches to Trim mode, which shows the outgoing and incoming frames, with buttons for moving back and forward by one frame or five and another to apply the default transition. As with Adobe Photoshop image layers, layer support in Premiere Pro lets you apply adjustments. These will affect all tracks below them.
You create a new adjustment layer by right-clicking in the project panel.
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