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Posts Tagged ‘News’
BPOS: “official” roadmap
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19 Jul 2010As my previous post already stated, Microsoft will be bringing some new features to BPOS. Mary-Jo Foley presented the WPC 2010 slide decks on her blog (thx for that). Here they are: Exchange Online SharePoint Online OCS Online
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Microsoft Photo Fuse Feature
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3 Jun 2010Microsoft is rolling out some new enhancements to Windows Live Essentials Suite. Some people will get really excited hearing this, but many changes are minor. One thing really got me going and that was a new feature in Photo Gallery, called Photo Fuse. Everyone has the problem in which you take some pictures of a [...]
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Pen & Finger touch
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12 Apr 2010People @ Microsoft Research show of a project named “Manual Deskterity”, in which the usage of touch input and pen input are combined. This demo above is presented on a Microsoft Surface device.
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Windows MultiPoint Server 2010
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25 Feb 2010Microsoft launched a new product called “Windows MultiPoint Server 2010”. This piece of software is based off Windows Server 2008 R2 and enables multiple people (up top 10) to share access to a single host PC. Every person has his own dedicated mouse, keyboard an monitor. You do need some additional hardware to get this [...]
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Intel’s Single Chip Cloud Computer
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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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Windows 8: roadmaps
In: Windows
20 Nov 2009Windows 7 is just out, and we are talking about version 8 already. thx to Stephen Chapman He also quoted someone who said: ”Working on Hyper-V features for Win8 in the Platform and Management Extendability team, which is part of the Windows Core OS Kernel Group” Quick search on who that could be. hmmmmmmm…. (Senior [...]
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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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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