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Microsoft embraces cloud computing with 'Live Mesh'

News Microsoft Surface in depth From painting to ordering drinks, Microsoft plans to change the way we interact with technology with Surface Microsoft, the dominant force in software that runs on a computer's local hard drive, has seen rivals like...

Tags: google, cloud, microsoft

[23 Apr 2008]

Photos: Flying robots, Colossus codebreaker, virus art

Photo Former Seinfeld star and Celebrity Poker Showdown winner, Jason Alexander, checks out Microsoft's Surface technology at Harrah's casino in Las Vegas. Photo credit: Eric Maslowski, research computer specialist, University of Michigan 3D Lab

Tags: supercomputer, robots, viruses, military

[27 Mar 2008]

Boutique Law Firm Cross-Examines Server Solution and Raises Productivity, Bottom Line

whitepaper After the firm began to grow and problems began to surface on more than one client computer at a time, Kramarsky noticed that his own billable time was less than it could have been. DPK turned to Microsoft Gold Certified Partner eMazzanti...

Tags: application servers, hewlett packard, certified, files

[23 Mar 2008]

Photos: Red Bull Racing's F1 factory

Photo The lines simulate airflow across the body work and how it reacts to changes in the surface. Red Bull Technology uses sophisticated computer aided design (CAD), wind-tunnel analysis and complex computational fluid dynamics (CFD) applications to...

Tags: f1, grid, power, server

[10 Mar 2008]

Photos: Microsoft Surfaces in Vegas

Photo Microsoft's Surface tabletop computer got a one-night gig on the Las Vegas Strip at Harrah's casino last week at the National Heads-Up Poker Championship drawing party. Poker celebrities, and a few faces famous outside the game, got a glimpse of...

Tags: microsoft, surface, entertainment, credit

[07 Mar 2008]

Rippling Reflective and Refractive Water

whitepaper Instead, the surface geometry consists of high frequency, non-uniform perturbations that give the surface a subtle choppiness resulting in slightly distorted reflections and refractions. One of the classic challenges of real-time computer graphics...

Tags: graphics applications

[28 Feb 2008]

Photos: Accenture gets touchy feely with its interactive wall

Photo Webcams are attached to each screen which are linked to a computer and track the movement of fingers on the display's surface - doing away with the need for a touch-sensitive coating. There were shades of sci-fi film Minority Report as Accenture...

Tags: future, touch, accenture, interactive

[01 Feb 2008]

Bill Gates bids London farewell

News Alluding to Microsoft's Surface technology, which he gave a demonstration of, Gates added: "We'll be talking about a computer in the desk in the future. Microsoft Surface in depth From painting to ordering drinks, Microsoft plans to change the way...

Tags: bill gates, microsoft, tool, chairman

[30 Jan 2008]

LEGO Captures Original Design Intent: Defines Best-in-Practice Mold Design

whitepaper The company utilized free form surface mold design methodology and created surfaces from curves on the computer or from scanned data. LEGO Group wanted to improve product mold design process and rapidly develop free form surfaces.

Tags: groupware - workflow

[14 Jan 2008]

Ethical Implications of Windows Vista's New DRM Technology

whitepaper On the surface, this looks like a wonderful feature; after all, more and more people are beginning to use their home computers as media centers. The implications of Microsoft's implementation of content protection schemes, however, have far...

Tags: windows vista

[11 Jan 2008]

Bill Gates sings at CES for one last time

News Microsoft has a new concept application for its Surface computer that shows how the product can tie into Windows Live services and other devices. Gates used the tabletop Surface PC to design a custom snowboard and then send the design to his...

Tags: vista, olympics, ford, gates

[07 Jan 2008]

Photos of the year

Photo The two 100ft long pontoons of the Proteus are flexibly connected to the centre of the vessel to allow it to adapt to the water surface. Microsoft has been eager to show of its wares in 2007, with pics of its Surface technology, touchscreen...

Tags: photos, microsoft, car, google

[13 Dec 2007]

Photos: Future tech at Microsoft Innovation day

Photo Also created by Virtual Events, this is a floor that reacts to your movements much like Microsoft's Surface technology. This photo shows a system developed by the Microsoft Research team in Cambridge, where the car learns how to drive around a...

Tags: events, car, credit, house

[06 Dec 2007]

Hot issue for green IT

Comment For example, a CPU can run reasonably happily with a surface temperature of around 60 degrees centigrade. IBM has come up with a different approach, with a water-cooled radiator that can be retro-fitted to computer racks and blade chassis.

Tags: green, energy, cooling, data centre

[14 Nov 2007]

Microsoft does bundling U-turn on hypervisor

News Microsoft Surface in depth From painting to ordering drinks, Microsoft plans to change the way we interact with technology with Surface Virtualisation is a broad term for technology that lets one computer act as many, while hypervisors refer...

Tags: hypervisor, virtualisation, microsoft, cnet news

[13 Nov 2007]

Microsoft still tinkering with Surface

News Although Microsoft is still getting plenty of "oohs" and "aahs" when it demos its Surface computer, the company is finding the task of bringing the tabletop computer to market a little rougher than it anticipated.

Tags: touchscreen, surface, microsoft, cnet news

[09 Nov 2007]

Arctic tech gets sub-zero test

News The Surface Penetrating Radar for Ice Thickness Establishment - or Sprite - will also be tested as part of the weekend trials. The onboard sledge computer uses a Linux-based system and consumes only two watts of electricity.

Tags: survey, arctic, vanco

[26 Oct 2007]

Gates: 'My work here is not yet done'

News Microsoft has the feature in its high-end tabletop computer, Surface, while Apple has introduced a more mainstream adaptation of the technology in the iPhone and iPod Touch The conference table, the office whiteboard and even the bedroom mirror are...

Tags: voice recognition, touchscreen, microsoft, bill gates

[19 Oct 2007]

Photos: Cool tech behind an Arctic expedition

Photo Attached to the sledge is a smaller, yellow vessel which measures the ice and snow thickness and is called the Sprite - or surface penetrating radar for ice thickness establishment. The main section of the vessel - called the 'sledge' - holds an...

Tags: comms, expedition, arctic

[17 Oct 2007]

Photos: Microsoft Surface in depth

Photo Micrsoft is also working with IGT - which makes computer arcade games - on Surface's launch in the US later this year. This table-like device is actually a demonstration of Microsoft's Surface technology, which the company had been showing off in...

Tags: table, touch, microsoft surface

[02 Oct 2007]

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