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Microsoft Surface Is Checking in at the Sheraton Hotels & Resorts

Microsoft Surface is checking in at the Sheraton Hotels & Resorts in New York, Boston, Chicago, Seattle, and Burlingame. According to the Redmond company, customized variants of its surface computing product will be tailored in accordance with the Sheraton brand. Placed in the lobbies of the hotels, the Microsoft Sur...

13 August 2008
13:00 GMT

Touch Computing Beyond Vista and Windows 7

Microsoft's first and only public demonstration of Windows 7, the next iteration of the Windows client, delivered at the end of May 2008, offers the first consistent peek at the touch computing feature of the operating system. The Redmond company is heavily committed to investing in the evolution of natural user...

4 August 2008
04:30 GMT

Introducing the Microsoft Sphere

At the start of 2007, Microsoft was debuting a new product category dubbed surface computing with Microsoft Surface, a tabletop with a Windows Vista-running machine under the hood and multi-touch, gesture and object recognition capabilities. Now, the Redmond company is gearing up to introduce the evolution of its tab...

29 July 2008
09:30 GMT

Microsoft's Dream Home, Only with Touch Computing and Vista Ultimate

Windows Vista Ultimate and Surface computing are both at the heart of Microsoft's Innoventions Dream Home introduced at Disneyland in Anaheim. The attraction featured in Tomorrowland delivers a complex recipe of Microsoft technologies including its latest versions of the Windows home server and client operating ...

16 June 2008
05:47 GMT

Microsoft Brings Surface Computing to Uninhibited Flirting

It is obvious that Microsoft Surface is a product which will catalyze a new level of social interaction via its multi-touch, gesture and object recognition capabilities, all of them put to good use for the sake of uninhibited flirting. Having been already introduced in AT&T shops in the U.S., Microsoft's first c...

12 June 2008
06:04 GMT

Windows 7 Is Just the Beginning for Microsoft

As far as Microsoft is concerned, Windows 7 is just the beginning. Not a new beginning for Windows, mind you, but the debut of a revolution in human - computer interaction. At Tech Ed 2008, Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates indicated that he is betting big on natural user interfaces. "Now one of the big changes coming th...

6 June 2008
10:06 GMT

Microsoft Surface Goes Live

Microsoft introduced what it referred to as a new product category at the end of May, 2007, and revealed that it planned for Surface to be made available by business customers by the end of the past year. However, the complexity of tailoring custom applications to Microsoft's tabletop computer meant that the Red...

2 April 2008
04:26 GMT

Consumer Version of Microsoft Surface Going for Windows 7

Microsoft is currently working to produce the consumer version of its tabletop computer in a three-year timeframe. According to Tom Gibbons, Corporate Vice President, Specialized Devices and Applications Group, Microsoft Surface could make its way into household environments in three years or less. In this context, i...

28 March 2008
12:41 GMT

100% Natural - The Future of Windows User Interfaces

One key aspect of computing in particular and technology in general is the end user interaction. So far, when it comes down to computers, the keyboard plus mouse is the traditional and established model of interaction. But without a doubt at this stage in the evolution of computing both the mouse and keyboard are bec...

10 March 2008
15:57 GMT

Microsoft Can Put Hardcore Gaming at Your Fingertips - Going Beyond DirectX 10 and 11

The future of gaming goes beyond DirectX 10 and DirectX 11, or even additional examples of the implementation of Microsoft's graphics technology bundled with the Windows operating system. Still, judging strictly from the perspective of the immense community of gamers, the associated market share, and the focus o...

29 February 2008
07:21 GMT

Lumin, the MultiTouch Technology to Imitate Surface Computing

Touch-screen lovers, rejoice! The MultiTouch technology is here and seems to be the next form of interaction between us, the flesh and bone users and our machines. The new interaction type comprises an input and an output device, while other conventional input devices, such as mouse or keyboard, have been stripped d...

28 January 2008
09:39 GMT

Bill Gates: 'Vision and Touch and Speech and Ink, All of those I Call Natural User Interface'

Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates is ready to bet big on how the evolution of the way users interact with technology will make computing increasingly pervasive in the future. During his speech at the Government Leaders Forum Europe 2008, Berlin, Germany on January 23rd, 2008, Gates emphasized the impact that natural user...

24 January 2008
07:01 GMT

Windows Vista at the Heart of the Evolution Towards Natural User Interfaces

Microsoft has placed Windows Vista at the heart of the evolution towards natural user interfaces. With traditional content continually being digitized, a shift in the way the user interacts with digital materials comes inherently. The Redmond company is not the only company that is trying to keep up with the flow of ...

21 November 2007
05:25 GMT

Free Windows Aero vs. the $10,000 Surface Graphical User Interface on Steroids

Windows Aero has a new competitor on the market, and if we are to believe Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates' vision of the future of computing interaction, the graphical user interface in Windows Vista is already obsolete. At the end of May 2007, Microsoft unveiled Surface, the company's first step into the wor...

18 September 2007
11:58 GMT

Microsoft Hardware from the Word Mouse to Vista-based Surface Computing

The Microsoft Hardware Group was spawned all the way back in 1982, and this year, the division turned 25. Focusing on building not only the software but also computer peripherals, the Redmond company attempted to deliver its vision of a comprehensive digital lifestyle by bridging the gap between software products and...

23 August 2007
03:08 GMT




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