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this is running 50 fish and i want to show you how much this hardware acceleration really matters I'm gonna pull this down by way of comparison I've got an iphone 4 here running the current build of Safari and the Safari web browser is not taking advantage of hardware acceleration so you really get a sense for how dramatic the difference is when we use the full power capability of the device you saw it on the pc you've tried it yourself if you download a 99 and now you can see the difference on the phone so that is a first real-world example of the performance difference now i'm going to use IE 9 here and navigate over to another site and just give you another example what you saw in the video one of those sites that was shown in the video all those sites you can try yourself if you download IE all the sites of the video are part of the ie9 test-drive site and one of the ones you saw was IMDB so this is a mock-up of an html5 IMDb site that uses and nations and rich user experience and i want to show you how it looks and feels very smooth just like what you saw on the desktop I can touch these movies and navigate around I can push the play button and because the hardware acceleration makes this experience so smooth the user although they've just visited a website it's almost indistinguishable from the experience you would get running a client app on the device now similarly one of the other things that's full about this my where carousel de Kamp here is that the html5 standard supports a wide range of things but one of the more valuable important ones that supports is native support for video watch websites today use flash other plugins to implement video on websites and in our case we don't support many of those sites but with ie9 and its standard space support from the video tag sites like this IMDb site enable native support for video just using HTML so in this case I'm going to touch the item for despicable me we're going to hit the web service here the website start downloading this video and playing it you'll see just a second we still have our productivity you'll see a streaming h.264 video in high definition and maybe we don't have enough connectivity for you to see this but trust me we typically would show streaming high-definition h.264 video I can actually go back to try that one more time see if we get lucky on the second try and we're not gonna get lucky and second try well unfortunately that didn't work as I said this is preliminary not final code will get all these kinks worked out before we ship it make it available to users but now what I want to do is switch over and give you one more demo example of the software that's going to be coming in this free update later this year and that is walk you through a multi tasking scenario as Steve said later on this year in 2011 will make this update available for all windows phone 7 users and will then get added support for multitasking of third party apps today windows phone 7 multitasks our own first party code but generally we don't multitask third party apps because we want to make sure the user has a very predictable long life in their battery when apps run in the background you're not careful about how you architected they can often spin and use the CPU and other resources so the batteries drink what we're going to ship is a multi tasking approach that we think does the right balance of protecting the users battery while letting multitasking heaven so I'm going to start up this demo by running an active the app that I'm going to run is called rise and glory it's an xbox live game that's now available in the marketplace if you have a Windows Phone you can try this yourself it's pretty fun this is a world war one fighter plane simulation and once the game launches i'm going to play the part of the red and flying my trifling over Europe well I'm being attacked by other fighter so the game is loaded I'll touch the screen and here we go so you can see I am let me turn the volume up here let's even get some audio there we go I am flying my plane around and today if I were playing this game with Windows Phone 7 if I wanted to make a phone call or send a text if I navigate away from the game we essentially put it into a deep hibernation which takes a few seconds to resume so I'm going to do the same thing now let's assume I wanted to make the phone call I press the start button I'll navigate around I'll do my thing make my phone call now I want to go back to the game we have a convenient back button today if I were to do that on windows phone 7 for third-party apps might take four seconds for a game sometimes a little longer maybe even up to as much as 10 seconds but with multitasking the user gets an instant return to the game so here I go can i push the back button back there's our animation boom we're in the game and then pauses for me so i can press the continue button very very fast effectively instead so I'm going to do it again I'll press Start we navigate away I can go do something else on the phone I can run other apps whatever I want when I push back to come back to that app voila I can press Continue and I'm flying high playing so we're adding a new user interface element later this year which lets people have a task switching view from there back button you can press back back back to go to absolute design or you can press and hold that which is what i just did and will present a view of all the applications that you've been running recently so you can see here we set this phone up before the demo Iran email Iran fruit ninja Iran groupon on the phone and I want to give you an example now we put these things together i can switch between games incredibly fast so i'm going to choose fruit into unpause the game Here I am killing fruit today I'll do that now let's go back to our rise of glory press and hold back now to get over to rise and Lori and now so for those those teenagers with really long attention spans want to charge like two games at the time it will now be possible with fast task switching and our new task switching Megan okay I have one more multitasking scenario i want to show you're not going to wrap up as part of the demo another really key thing that people have raised that's something they'd like to see on windows phone 7 we don't support today is third party music applications being able to play music as you navigate around the phone if you use our built-in music application if it works ok but for third parties so far we don't support them so what I'm going to do is give you a real example of that I'm going to scroll down here and launch slack room slacker is a free music service that gives me access to a whole bunch of radio stations so I launch the slacker app and I'm going to touch today's hits to start playing stream radio station there we go then I was playing the song hundred pianos by july four kids today on windows phone 7 to the third party app if i navigate away from the app the music will stop not so anymore this multitasking support if i press the press and hold the back button you'll see again the slacker applications moves into the top of you i can pan over pick another app in this case I'll choose my email so now here I am running email and was using is still playing uninterruptedly as it would expect if I want to go back to the slacker out because i want to change to a different radio station or something i can hit the back button to go right back to where I just came from and now I can navigate around do something to slash this scenario keeps working lots of different directions if I press the start button of course as you would expect music continues to run and we've tried to make sure the user experience pays really simple and predictable for people so if you want to turn the volume down the system volume controls work and right there you can see the track an artist is shown I can skip forward I can skip back or as is appropriate in this demo situation I can just hit the pause button to stop in a way that's very consistent between our built-in experience and third-party apps so all of these features that I've described will be coming in a free update in 2011 for all windows phone 7 users