In his PDC keynote demo, Chris Capossela showed off some of Windows Vista's exciting new features for managing the ever-growing sets of data that people will have with PC's moving forward. He showed visualization features like thumbnails, search features like stacking over properties, grouping by properties, filtering with the search box, and also organizing features like property painting and editing. But all of the file types involved were types well-known to Microsoft, and all of the schema pre-baked into the box at ship time.

Come to PRS310 Wednesday at 3:15p.m. to learn how your applications can play in the property system. (Don't worry Anders's talk has a repeat scheduled for the next day [:)].)