The problem today with web videos is they are quite static, there is no interaction between the content and the viewers. However a new Microsoft Research project, Digital Narratives has gone some way to addresses this. Upon first viewing it appears to just be an ordinary video however what you are actually looking at is [...]

Microsoft and Microsoft Research released a Map App last week which I didn’t have time to play with but its great. It allows users to change the UI of Bing Maps to a much simpler  one, that appears to be hand drawn. Now at first site this could appear to just be a gimmick however [...]

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 [...]

Earlier today I wrote about some of the Microsoft Research Projects that were being demoed at TechFest, Microsoft’s showcasing of its best research projects, including Mobile Surface; now there is a video of the project in action courtesy of TechFlash. The project has a long way to go before we can see it in the [...]

Windows 7 RC users First things first, if you are using Windows 7 RC you’ll have probably noticed the OS keeps shutting down every two hours, this is a not a feature but a way to move you off the OS. You really should invest in the retail version of Windows 7, although I can’t [...]