Bing Maps Beta – Map apps

Wow, this is nice.

I’ve been exploring Bing Maps (beta), and just found the Map Apps.
A really cool feature.

Just open Bing Maps (beta), then on the bottom left, click the arrow. The following screen will appear:

Bing Map Apps

For example, click Twitter Maps. You will now see tweets appearing on your map.

Bing Maps showing tweets

Photosynth, is also a cool feature to explore.
Real nice work team Bing :-) . Some things aren’t implemented yet in Europe, but still really nice.

Microsoft demonstrates future Computing

Craig Mundie shows off some nice futuristic computing. The latter one keeps getting closer to a movie with Tom Cruise, and I guess that kind of arm stretching mr. Mundie does also prevents RSI and back injuries :-)

In this tour he demonstrates Microsoft Computational Science Studio (MSCSS), “a tool for enabling non-programmer scientists and researchers to harness vast amounts of storage and compute power for running the multi-scale models that are needed to truly understand and predict complex natural systems.”

Office 2010: some video’s

Here are some video’s presenting features in office 2010.
The first one is about productivity improvements of outlook.
I really like the thread view, the clean up function, but most of all the calendar preview in your mail (no more switching from mail to calendar).

Copy and paste features:
wow.. that live preview of app’s open on your desktop, and the screen clipping. Indeed cameraman bring this to live writer.

Office to the cloud:
and to close up… am I hearing some ooooh’s and aaaaaah’s

What is Windows Azure

If you would put a tag cloud around Cloud Computing, one tag would definitely be Microsoft’s Windows Azure. If you don’t understand what Azure is, see this video:

<a href="http://video.msn.com/?mkt=en-US&amp;playlist=videoByUuids:uuids:feec9c5d-c6c9-451c-aa9a-b7f4524a6322&amp;showPlaylist=true&amp;from=shared" target="_new" title="What is Windows Azure?">Video: What is Windows Azure?</a>

Microsoft 2019 video: what technology is used

A lot of people have seen this video I presume (lower your volume cause this video starts with an annoying sound):

<a href="http://video.msn.com/?mkt=en-GB&amp;playlist=videoByUuids:uuids:a517b260-bb6b-48b9-87ac-8e2743a28ec5&amp;showPlaylist=true&amp;from=shared" target="_new" title="Future Vision Montage">Video: Future Vision Montage</a>

Now let’s analyze this video, and see what technology is used behind this video:

<a href="http://video.msn.com/?mkt=en-US&amp;playlist=videoByUuids:uuids:d3eb1393-1a72-4080-a176-a33cb3635d95&amp;showPlaylist=true&amp;from=shared" target="_new" title="Productivity Future Vision Video Talk Track">Video: Productivity Future Vision Video Talk Track</a>

 

thx to Steve Clayton.