Microsoft Surface
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Bumps on the road to Microsoft's Surface
News Early partners aren't likely to have their tabletop PCs up and running until spring. Redmond had been aiming for debuts in 2007.
Tags: Mobile/Wireless
Microsoft to add multitouch interface to Windows 7
News Microsoft says the new technology, which is expected to arrive in late 2009, will work with existing touch screens.
Tags: Microsoft Windows, Innovation, R&D, Microsoft Corp., Mobile, User Interface, Apple Macintosh, Microsoft Windows 7, Mouse, Touch Screen
Windows 7 catching developers' eyes
News Software makers are taking advantage of operating system's multitouch, while Microsoft's hardware unit is tailoring keyboards and mice to take advantage of new features.
Tags: Microsoft Windows, Windows Vista, Operating systems, Notebooks and tablets, Software, Developer, Microsoft Windows 7, Touch Screen, N-trig, Software
Microsoft gets 10,000th patent
News After five years of pushing for more patents, Microsoft has finally broken into five digits when it comes to the number of U.S. patents issued.
Tags: Patents, Best strategies, Benefits, Microsoft Corp., IBM Corp., Patent, Online Game, Computer, Worker, Microsoft Surface
Microsoft aims to build a better thesaurus
News Borrowing techniques used in machine translation, a team of researchers in Redmond believes it has found a better way to serve up synonyms.
Tags: Business applications, Mobile applications, Microsoft Corp., machine translation, Intranet, TechFest, product development, researcher, Microsoft Surface, technique
Gartner: Web 2.0 set to transform business
News Analyst predicts technologies such as SaaS and mashups, will have a change-inducing impact on business within two years, despite current user disillusionment.
Tags: Web 2.0, Web services, Utility computing, Internet, Technology, Cloud Computing, Gartner Inc., 3D, social networking, printer
Gates: Every surface to be a computer
News At CEO Summit, Microsoft chairman says new user interfaces, particularly touch, will change the "individual's office, the home, the living room".
Tags: Innovation, Entrepreneurship, Hardware, Microsoft Corp., Bill Gates, Microsoft TouchWall, Midas Inc., Computer, Microsoft PowerPoint, laser
Microsoft outlines the future of computing
News Software giant's research and strategy chief Craig Mundie says "spatial computing" will see people and sensors spewing trillions of bits of data, with programmers scrambling to mask complexity.
Tags: Microsoft Corp., Computing, 3D, software, processor, software development, Microsoft Surface, Cambridge, strategy, data service
Microsoft hopes 'Milan' table PC has magic touch
News Five years in the making, company's new tabletop computer is controlled entirely through touch--there's no mouse or keyboard.
Tags: Personal Computers, Microsoft Windows, Development/design
Can Microsoft win over enough developers?
Techguide Microsoft is trying very hard to be the cause and beneficiary of reflexivity, but only time will tell if it can create enough demand in the minds of developers.
Tags: Operating systems, Software engineering/development
