I am not sure I have ever seen so many wide-ranging rumours for things that Microsoft might announce and demo at its keynote tonight at CES. There are some rumours that seem very likely to actually be true such as a version of Windows being shown off that runs on ARM processors, details of the [...]
So there I was sitting in my apartment one Thursday evening in late April, my desk lamp casting shadows around the room whilst I reviewed the news from the day with Microsoft announcing a competitor to Facebook’s Open Graph and Steve Jobs openly attacking Adobe’s Flash. When all of a sudden I heard a great [...]
The New York Times have word on Microsoft’s Courier device from a employee “who has seen the device” who has said that the device is about the size of a paper back book when closed and to expect the device in 2011 although no date has been confirmed. Microsoft are said to be indecisive about [...]
I have just seen a post on WMPowerUser.com about Microsoft investing in n-trig a company that “develops and produces multi-touch systems”. The interesting thing about these screens is that not only does the company work on good multi touch finger support but also pen input through its DuoSense Technology. Need I point out what Microsoft [...]
Long Zheng has found a great video from Microsoft Research which shows that by using the best attributes of both touch and pen input a very function application can be made then in some ways replicates the real world very well. This application was designed to work on Microsoft’s Surface. Some of you may now [...]
Considering how many Microsoft product are being (or are rumoured to be) released later this year I think I already have my Christmas list. :D Anyone else have there Christmas list already planned out? (or am I just a bit keen?) Windows Live Tags: Microsoft, Windows Phone 7 Series, Project Natal, Courier
Since September the Courier has been my most anticipated Microsoft product, 7 Series has now drawn equal, but it has been unknown if the Courier would come to market or if it only existed as a concept. Well from info and images that Engadget received today it looks so much more promising for any fan [...]
In this post I want to look at some of the trends we can expect to see over the next year from Microsoft and the wider tech world. 2010: The Year Of Touch We all know that Microsoft added Windows Touch to Windows 7 to bring touch computing mainstream and it will be this year [...]
Firstly I would just like to thank you all for reading this site (which is 7 months old now) for giving me feedback on what to improve and for sharing ideas. 2009 has been a pretty big year for Microsoft where they had to get thing rights and for the most part they did. Windows [...]