Working with Intel, AMD and NVIDIA
Larson (pictured below, with a couple of colleagues, including Ashley Highfield on the right, during a Q&A session) noted that Windows 7's nine-month long beta had involved eight million people, with another seven million getting hold of it "somehow", meaning Microsoft had some 15 million people offering it feedback on the OS before its final release.
Meanwhile, Leila Martine, director of the Windows consumer division at Microsoft UK and HEXUS TV star, said Microsoft had worked very arduously with partners like AMD and Intel to improve battery life of systems.
Martine also noted the firm had worked with "our partner, Nvidia" on DX11 - but failed to mention AMD, the only graphics firm yet to have come out with DX11 ready hardware. The omission, HEXUS was assured, was simply an oversight, but AMD can't have been particularly pleased.
Microsoft, said Martine, had made "huge strides in security" and the software firm's browser, IE8, was touted as "the safest browsing experience on the market."
