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Mar
18
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MIX09 teasers from Angus Logan and yours truly

This is what Vegas can do to you, it makes you stream a video demo of upcoming product announcements. Angus Logan and James Senior of Live Mesh fame decided to do a little midnight tease of some web technology to be announced at Microsoft’s MIX 09 event starting tomorrow. Typical of a tease, it cuts off at probably the worst time

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MIX09 teasers from Angus Logan and yours truly

Mar
17
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Behind vision â??2019â?³: interview with Ian Sands, Microsoft Office Labs Director of Envisioning

Microsoft Office Labs ‘ awe-inspiring “2019″ productivity vision video debuted a couple weeks ago introduces a lot of cool technology concepts but raises if not just as many question. Seeking to get some of those questions answered, I was fortunate enough to get in touch with someone who knows these concepts better than anyone else, Ian Sands, the Director of Envisioning at Office Labs. Here’s what he had to say

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Behind vision â??2019â?³: interview with Ian Sands, Microsoft Office Labs Director of Envisioning

Mar
17
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Designing Aero Snap – Engineering Windows 7 – Site Home – MSDN Blogs

Early â??smart resizerâ? prototype running on Windows Vista, note the taskbar button created by the prototype (and the date in the calendar to get a sense of where we are in the process) … OK â?? Let’s try the following scenario in your Windows 7 build. Start with a restored window.

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Mar
16
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Razorfish DaVinci Surface application; like Crayon Physics Deluxe, only better

If you’ve ever played Crayon Physics Deluxe on a tablet PC or similar clones on the iPhone and wished you could play it on a giant table, with better physics and more control over the properties, be able to use real life objects and world peace, then the latest Microsoft Surface demo application from Razorfish has almost what you’re looking for. Rumor has it world peace is coming in version two. Something about watching irregular sized circles roll on irregular shapes makes touch physics games very addictive.

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Razorfish DaVinci Surface application; like Crayon Physics Deluxe, only better

Mar
16
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Why Iâ??m worried Windows Marketplace for Mobile will undermine creativity and experimentation

There’s no arguing that third-party applications is what makes smartphones great, after all, there’s only so much a first-party can or should do. The state of the applications ecosystem on Windows Mobile today is disorganized and unprofessional, so the news couldn’t come sooner Microsoft had finally put together a centralized app store , the Windows Marketplace for Mobile. However, a small detail in the developer program has me worried developers will be reluctant or can’t afford to release cool and interesting applications.

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Why Iâ??m worried Windows Marketplace for Mobile will undermine creativity and experimentation

Mar
13
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A few more changes from Beta to RCâ?¦ – Engineering Windows 7 – Site …

In RC the Windows Search service now keeps the index up-to- date whenever support for new file types are introduced to the system. We know that in the past customers have sometimes had difficulties searching for files on their computer …..

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Mar
11
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Start Windows (video)

[See post to watch Flash video] At the Mobile World Congress a month ago, Microsoft began rebranding the Windows Mobile family as simply Windows and Windows Phones. At the center of this branding campaign was this new “Start something, Start Windows” metaphor that was used in many of the video materials

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Mar
10
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The Windows 7 RC/RTM release date guessing game… who's right …

Today is another crazy day for rumors, as we were able to gather 3 different Windows 7 release date rumors. Collins Stewart (a wealth management firm) analyst projected that Microsoft will finalize the code for Windows 7 by June or July …

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Mar
10
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Microsoft's Windows 7 RC Build 7048 reviewed

Redmond (WA) – ZD Net’s Ed Bott has done a bang-up job of assembling a Windows 7 RC review. The before-and-after images show how features have changed between build 7000 and build 7048. Some basic features have been reworked, …

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