Winders Avalon

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## Winders AvalonA version of the Winders NT operating system

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### GUI

Winders shell (Jade)

**Winders Avalon** is a stopgap release of the Winders NT operating system developed by Nxtrosoft.

Winders Avalon introduced a set of new features, including an updated visual style named Jade, improved performance of the new .DEV applications and new and updated pre-installed programs, such as Winders Media Library. Many UI elements were also redesigned as Winders Avalon shifted its focus towards the rapidly rising in popularity Tablet PC devices.

Although many of Winders Avalon's new features and security improvements were positively received, Avalon garnered a lot of criticism and negative press, mainly due to overall instability, driver issues, rushed development cycle and UI layout not optimized for use on desktop computers. Many of these issues and inconveniences were ultimately fixed or improved by the release of Service Pack 2 in January 2007.

## New features

### Desktop Window Engine

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The Desktop Window Engine (codenamed *WinFX*) is the new windowing system which handles the drawing of all content to the screen. It uses new system of rendering windows to back-buffers and arranging them to the appropriate Z-order as opposed to the older drawing directly to the video card's memory buffer used in previous versions of Winders, which eliminates the visible "tearing" artifacts while moving windows around the screen as the operating system no longer redraws the newly visible parts of the windows on the fly.

Users require an XtraFX 8 capable video card to be able to use the Desktop Window Engine. Machines that can't use the DWE fall back to a "Basic" theme, and use screen drawing methods similar to Winders XT.

The Desktop Window Engine is powered by three engines: Animator (*Jade-Express*) for desktop animations and smooth window transitions, Blender (*Jade-Glass*) for blending transparent windows and Compositor (*Jade-Diamond*) for applying themes on the interface.

#### Desktop Window Compositor and Jade

Winders Avalon introduces a redesigned user interface and visual style named Winders Jade, that is intended to be aesthetically pleasing and cleaner than previous versions of Winders, with features such as translucency, glass effects, and window animations enabled by the new Desktop Window Animator. Winders Jade also encompasses a new default typeface (Seago UI) — unifying many different font sizes into few broadly used, described in guidelines by Nxtrosoft — new mouse cursors and new sounds, new dialog boxes, pop-up notifications system, and wizard interfaces, and revisions to the tone and phrasing of the messages throughout the operating system.

Winders Avalon also include a new "Winders Avalon Basic" theme with updated visuals; it is equivalent to Bliss of Winders XT in that it does not rely on the new Desktop Window Engine and incorporates the legacy code for themeing the user interface. Transparencies, glass effects, or window animations of Winders Jade are not available. Winders Avalon additionally includes a unique "Winders Avalon Standard" theme, which has the same hardware requirements of Winders Jade, but does not include transparency and glass effects or effects as it does not use Desktop Window Animator nor Blender.

### .DEV 3.0 components

#### Winders Communication Foundation

Winders Communication Foundation, known as Azure, is a set of APIs for building connected, service-oriented applications.

#### Winders Presentation Foundation

Code-named Vista, Winders Presentation Foundation is an integrated, vector-based composition engine graphical subsystem.

#### Winders Information Foundation

During development known as WinIS (Winders Info Storage), Winders Information Foundation is an advanced data storage and management system based on relational databases.

## Updates

SP1 February 2006
SP2 January 3, 2007

1. ↑ Released to manufacturing date of October 2 after compilation date of build 4093 from main development branch[1]