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Microsoft Puts a Digital Touch on Healthcare

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

Microsoft Surface Games Pack Available for Download

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

Microsoft Surface Shows NUI Is the Future

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

Microsoft Surface Computing Crosses the Pond

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

Oahu: Microsoft Surface for the Masses

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

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

At $12,500 and $15,000, Microsoft Surface Is Not Going Mainstream

Whether Microsoft likes it or not, its first commercial surface computing product is still far from going mainstream. The largest impediment by far is the price tag of Microsoft Surface. The hardware built around a Windows Vista operating system and complemented by the surface computing technology developed by Micros...

7 August 2008
11:41 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

Build Yourself a Surface Computer for Only $500

Microsoft's revolutionary Surface computers have already hit the shelves of a few selected companies such as AT&T and it seems that this kind of approach will revolutionize the way we interact with our computers. The extremely intuitive software teams up with a natural user interface (the hand) to put all the ne...

6 May 2008
03:38 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

Serrana Digital Desk: the Brazil-Baked OLPC Alternative

The OLPC initiative has has plenty of bumps in the road lately, such as the Nigerian LANCOR lawsuit, the departure of Mary-Lou Jepsen, and the constant delays in shipments. Funds have been scarce and the charity organization could not drop the price per unit around $100, so it's easy to understand why Negroponte...

14 March 2008
07:30 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

Feast Your Eyes on the Next Windows Vista User Interface - Video Demonstration

Windows Aero is the apex of Microsoft's offerings for graphical user interfaces in Windows Vista, and indeed a clear indication of the efforts the company poured into building a high-end user experience. But the future of the GUI will take Microsoft well beyond transparency and glass effects into new limits of i...

20 June 2007
11:11 GMT

Microsoft's Secret Project Comes to Life - Surface Computing

Microsoft has put a lot of faith in the magic touch of its users with the debut of what it calls an entirely new product category. Formerly under the codename Milan, Microsoft has yesterday taken the wraps off its surface computing project after over five years of cooking in the Redmond laboratories. The Surface tabl...

30 May 2007
04:00 GMT


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