Windows Neptune: Difference between revisions

Major user experience changes were planned to ship with Neptune, including Activity Centers, a new task-based user interface that involved individual "pages" focusing on daily tasks with facilities that include (but are not limited to) browsing the Internet, communication, document management and entertainment. User management was also improved in Neptune with the introduction of several new user types as well as a dedicated full-screen user interface. The new interfaces were primarily implemented using web technology, often using the new [[Mars|Mars framework]]. A key focus of the Neptune project was to experiment with user experiences that did not require manually saving previous work; some of this effort is visible in the only available build, which enables hibernation by default and requires the user to take extra steps to fully shut down the device.  

Internal additions and changes to Windows functionalities were also introduced in the project such as application caching, simplified networking utilities, driver resource management, and extended support for varying imaging hardware such as [[w:Image scanner|scanners]] and [[w:digital cameras|digital cameras]]. The Profile-Assisted Boot Accelerator, a feature that captures the system state immediately after a normal boot and restores it during subsequent boots, was also introduced.