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The next generation Surface system is expected to be demoed in mid-January next year, during Microsoft’s National Retail Federation (NRF) showcase. Also known as Samsung SUR40, the multi-touch system was completed last month, when Samsung kicked off the pre-order period for it. According to Mary-Jo Foley, the ... |
28 December 2011
08:55 GMT |
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Developers preferring to work with managed code libraries and leveraging Windows Presentation Foundation are no longer limited to using the Bing Maps Silverlight Control or the Bing Maps AJAX Control v7 in a web control for their projects involving Bing Maps. This because Microsoft has put together a Bing Maps WPF C... |
24 August 2011
07:31 GMT |
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Researchers have been exploring scenarios in which Microsoft Surface can be leveraged as a robot command and control center, and it appears that they’re making real progress. Make sure to watch the video embedded below in order to get an idea of how the natural user interface (NUI) capabilities of Microsoft Su... |
12 August 2011
09:31 GMT |
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Microsoft Surface is one of the technologies leveraged in the Pandemic 1.0 which is a transmedia experience that can currently be seen at the Sundance Film Festival. Authored by writer/director Lance Weiler, the Pandemic 1.0 also enjoyed the collaboration of design and technology companies such as Vectorform, whic... |
27 January 2011
11:41 GMT |
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Microsoft Surface can be a better fit to education scenarios than all the analog, traditional tools used together, and the new “The Wonder of Light: Touch and Learn!” exhibit opened on November 9th, 2010 at the Smithsonian is an illustrative example of this. Available at the center of the Castle’s h... |
11 November 2010
06:25 GMT |
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Microsoft Surface can be transformed into a fully-fledged robot command and control center delivering a unique NUI (natural user interface) experience, illustrative of the innovations made possible through the combination of the company’s technologies. University of Massachusetts Lowell Robotics Lab member Mark... |
24 August 2010
05:19 GMT |
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Settlers of Catan for Microsoft Surface exquisitely blends together analog and digital gameplay. Vectorform is the company responsible for the transition of the classic board game to Microsoft’s tabletop computer, working in partnership with the software giant, but also with the Catan LLC and Mayfair Games. Sof... |
3 August 2010
08:49 GMT |
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Microsoft Surface is embracing an immensely popular strategic board game that has stepped into the era of Natural User Interfaces. Fact is that, from the video embedded below, Settlers of Catan and Microsoft Surface do seem like a match made in cult gaming heaven, the Redmond company’s platform delivering a new... |
22 June 2010
10:21 GMT |
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A new resource available free of charge from Microsoft is designed to make it simple for developers building on top of Microsoft Surface to connect their applications to Bluetooth-enabled devices. The Microsoft Surface Bluetooth Connect Code Sample can be downloaded from the MSDN Code Gallery and help devs integrate ... |
17 June 2010
05:08 GMT |
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Microsoft’s table top computer is an impressive platform for multiplayer games that are designed to leverage the native multi-touch capabilities of the device. And Galactic Alliance is an excellent example of just what experiences titles can deliver on top of Microsoft Surface. The video embedded at the bottom ... |
9 June 2010
08:35 GMT |
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Following the commercial introduction of Microsoft Surface, the company has done comprehensive efforts to open up the new platform to as many developers as possible. A critical step in this direction was made by opening up access to a hardware-less version of the Microsoft Surface software development kit, first to a... |
5 May 2010
06:15 GMT |
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Microsoft Surface is the perfect home for the digitized version of a 19th-century relic known as the Garibaldi Panorama. The Redmond company’s tabletop computer will be used to bring the 140-year-old print to the public, marking the culmination of a consistent digitizing effort that was announced initially back... |
30 April 2010
10:57 GMT |
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A new resource available free of charge from Microsoft is designed to bring some of the Natural User Interface magic of Microsoft Surface to the company’s latest iteration of the Windows client. The software giant has released Microsoft Surface Toolkit for Windows Touch into Beta, with the bits already availabl... |
13 April 2010
10:48 GMT |
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Microsoft Surface will act as the platform for sustainability solutions from Johnson Controls, the two companies revealed. The Redmond giant’s tabletop computer with the default interaction model based on the concept of Natural User Interfaces, will be leveraged in order to allow customers to access and evaluat... |
1 March 2010
03:06 GMT |
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Microsoft has expanded the availability of its first example of surface computing product to customers in Australia. The Redmond company indicated that widespread interest in the tabletop computer from companies and organizations down under had been a catalyst for commercial availability of Microsoft Surface on the t... |
9 February 2010
07:35 GMT |
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Although Windows 7 will be the product to bring natural user interfaces into mainstream computing, Microsoft had been offering NUI-based interaction to users years ahead, with the release of Microsoft Surface. Most recently, guests visiting the Hard Rock Café in Las Vegas will be able to experience first-hand ... |
19 January 2010
06:32 GMT |
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Microsoft has released an update for its first commercial example of surface computing products, designed to resolve issues associated with user input. Specifically, the company explains that some Microsoft Surface units can no longer respond to input from users. According to the software giant, such problems are onl... |
27 November 2009
07:48 GMT |
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In addition to being a multi-touch and multi-user computer, Microsoft Surface is also a platform, and with QuickStart the Redmond company is attempting to catalyze a boost in the volume of applications developed for its first example of surface computing. At the Worldwide Partner Conference 2009, the software giant a... |
14 July 2009
08:13 GMT |
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Microsoft is kicking up a notch efforts designed to fuel application development for its first commercial example of surface computing technology. In this regard, the Redmond company has opened up access to the Microsoft Surface software development kit and simulator to partners. In order for companies to be able to ... |
30 June 2009
09:07 GMT |
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Microsoft is committed to the evolution of Natural User Interfaces, until they become pervasive across all computing products. There are examples today of the efforts from the software giant that are already producing results. But this is just the tip of the iceberg. NUIs are in their infancy, and Microsoft Chief Exe... |
4 June 2009
10:42 GMT |
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When it comes down to the next iteration of the Windows client, Windows Vista's Ultimate Extras are out, the Microsoft Touch Pack is in. But just as the Ultimate Extras were a set of offerings aimed at what Microsoft envisioned as the select users running the high-end edition of Windows Vista, the Touch Pack is ... |
28 May 2009
02:24 GMT |
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The Microsoft Surface hardware-software bundle representing the Redmond company's first commercial example of surface computing managed in no way to steer clear of the tradition involving major updates via service packs. In fact, on May 11, 2009, Microsoft Surface got its very first service pack. SP1 for Surface... |
12 May 2009
04:00 GMT |
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With the advent of Microsoft Surface and the upcoming Windows 7 operating system, Microsoft is attempting to redefine the human-computer interaction paradigm. The Redmond company has constantly increased the focus on natural user interfaces, and the evolution of existing computing interaction models beyond the now tr... |
24 April 2009
10:04 GMT |
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Microsoft's first example of a commercial surface computer is much more than just about the Natural User Interface because of all the hardware the tabletop machine packs. The Microsoft Surface Mobile Connect is an illustrative example of just how far the capabilities of Microsoft Surface can be pushed, especiall... |
9 April 2009
06:27 GMT |
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Surface computing can help members of the healthcare industry stand out from the crowd, Microsoft has revealed at the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) 2009 conference in Chicago. The Redmond company is literally putting a digital touch on healthcare, by demoing application prototypes desi... |
7 April 2009
13:34 GMT |
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Microsoft has made gaming available for download for the company's first commercial example of surface computing. The Games Pack delivers no less than four titles to the software giant's tabletop computer. In the video embedded at the bottom of this article you will be able to see the four sample applicatio... |
7 April 2009
12:28 GMT |
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When Eric Havir. Sr. Manager, Digital Communications at Microsoft/Surface stated that “Microsoft Surface and education are like peanut butter and jelly” he was right on the spot. Havir offered the two videos embedded at the bottom of this article showing Microsoft Surface, the Redmond company's first... |
30 March 2009
07:27 GMT |
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If you are looking for a shortcut to integrating Virtual Earth 3D into your WPF and Microsoft Surface applications, then you need not look any further. InfoStrat.VE, produced by InfoStrat, is an open-source control made available via CodePlex under LGPL, served in two flavors. The first is designed for WPF applicatio... |
11 March 2009
06:51 GMT |
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Microsoft Surface, the company's first commercial example of surface computing, has “crossed the pond” and is available in no less than 12 markets over the Atlantic. The Redmond company announced at CeBIT 2009 that Surface would be made available in the Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA) regions. ... |
2 March 2009
09:37 GMT |
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The adoption of Microsoft Surface products by the general public will be intimately connected with the availability of applications making use of the platform. Internal software solutions built by members of the Surface team, in addition to business applications put together for customers that have already adopted th... |
28 December 2008
13:51 GMT |
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Microsoft has long diversified its core business past its initial focus on developing software platforms for the desktop. In this regard, prominent members of the automotive industry have, in one way or another, embraced the products of the Redmond company. Ferrari is running a supercomputer with Windows HPC Server 2... |
1 December 2008
05:14 GMT |
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At $12,500 and $15,000, which are both price tags for Microsoft Surface, the first commercial surface computing product from the Redmond company is bound to not go mainstream anytime soon. But what if the software giant dropped the price? In fact, what if Microsoft introduced a new surface computing offering for just... |
14 October 2008
11:59 GMT |
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With touch-computing growing in relevance as part of the general tendency to adopt natural user interfaces (NUI), Microsoft's Business Intelligence solutions could not have been left out of the equation. At the company's recent Business Intelligence Conference in Seattle, a marriage of Microsoft Surface and... |
13 October 2008
05:46 GMT |
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Seadragon and Surface are two illustrations of technologies developed by Microsoft which can combine to deliver unique results. An example is the video embedded at the bottom of this article courtesy of Eric Havir, Senior Manager, Digital Marketing at Microsoft Surface. Albeit a tad old, the video from the Micro... |
26 September 2008
11:06 GMT |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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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