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Intel’s Single Chip Cloud Computer
In: News
7 Dec 2009Intel demonstrated a new Futuristic Chip with 48 cores (!!), a “single-chip cloud computer” as Intel call’s it. This chip should rethinks many of the approaches used in today’s designs for laptops, PC’s and servers. Take a look at the animation below
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Microsoft demonstrates future Computing
8 Nov 2009Craig 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 [...]
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MSN site changes it’s looks
4 Nov 2009Wow, MSN is changing it’s website. You can see a preview of it here. It really looks slick. It even has facebook and twitter integration. I like the change Microsoft
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Microsoft’s MultiTouch Mice’s
6 Oct 2009Some Microsoft Engineers are presenting a few Microsoft mice. The fun thing is that these are MultiTouch Mice. Are we seeing the prototype’s of the next generation mice (which off course come with there own type of RSI)?
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- Tags: Hardware, Microsoft, News
Office 2010: some video’s
17 Jul 2009Here 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 [...]
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Microsoft Office to the cloud
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17 Jul 2009Office 2010 brings office to the cloud (btw: nice silverlight player):
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Two new BPOS Tools
3 Jul 2009Two new tools for BPOS (or to say it correctly, 1 new and 1 updated tool). The Microsoft Online Services Diagnostics and Logging (MOSDAL) support toolkit The MOSDAL support toolkit performs network diagnostics and collects system configuration, network configuration, and logging information for service-based products. The logs that the tool generates provide data that helps [...]
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Project Natal
3 Jun 2009Something completely different: Project Natal. This is the code name for the Microsoft’s Motion Sensing Bar. ”What”, I hear you think. Well, you know the popular gaming console “Nintendo Wii”. Project Natal is the XBOX360 variant of the Wii, but without the controllers. It’s is kind a like the Eye from Sony Playstation, but more [...]
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- Tags: Gaming, News
Bing is (almost) here
29 May 2009Simple, organized and consistent… that’s Bing. Bing will be the new name of the Microsoft Search Engine (launch Wednesday, June 3rd). Not Kumo, not Sift and not Hook. Bing was introduced on May, 28th on the D7 conference, here is the video of the interview with Steve Balmer (damn that commercial, in the first few [...]
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to Bing or not to Bing
26 May 2009It is rumored that Microsoft (MSFT) will be launching a makeover of Live Search very soon. Some new techniques should be added to Live Search like: Opinion Search collecting, storing, and organizing opinion data such as user reviews of computers, electronics, software, video games, restaurants, and hotels. Renlifang Currently, information about a single entity (such [...]
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- Tags: Bing, Microsoft, Search