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25 Years MS Windows
It’s now 25 years ago since the first version of that thing called MS Windows started to infest became available for the new IBM PCs.
When you think back – that long ago – we were sitting and trying out that new interface provided to us on a PC the price of a small car today. And yes it was only black and white and it crashed and crashed and crashed (could be the applications), so most of the time we went back to a green shimmering monitor running Lotus 123 – latest after 15 minutes.
Actually it’s only 23 years ago because it took quite some time between the announcement and becoming available for sale. We started using it when MS persuaded us with an Alpha version of MS Windows 3.0 / 3.1 a few years later. If I recall it right that Alpha arrived on about 20 of these new 3.5″ floppies (each costing about 10 times as much as a DVD today). As time goes by…hmmmmmm…
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Research: MS SecondLight
With the new Secondlight prototype Microsoft has added another dimension to its touchscreen technology called Surface.
The two build-in projectors allow to display different images in a way that looks simultaneous to the eye. Microsoft presented the new technology during the PDC and has provided some additional technical details earlier this month.
While one image is displayed onto the large screen and can be manipulated with gestures the second projector can create an independent image on a flat or 3D surface like a piece of paper or a Plexiglas cylinder.
Microsoft provided some very interesting sample applications like…
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MTV Online Music Library opened
This is what we were waiting for. MTV Music has opened its huge music video collection and created a Hulu-like portal with currently about 22,000 music videos.
Now just add playlists and we will all be happy.
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Microsoft announces web based Office Applications
Finally the move from Microsoft we have been waiting for quite some time. MS is going to bring (parts of ) its Office Suite into the Browser.
As announced today MS Office Web Apps will run not only within IE but also with Firefox and Safari. The web apps will be “lightweight versions” of Word, Excel, PowerPoint and OneNote, but Microsoft said at the MS PDC the functionality included should be comparable to Google’s online office suite…
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INet: Google adds email sobriety test
Google has acted to protect its users against a seemingly widespread problem with email: Once you’ve pressed the send button it’s out in the wild. And some times you might have written something you shouldn’t have send to that person.
Seemingly for many this phenomenon occurs more frequently at certain times of the week / day – let’s say late Friday night.
From now on you can setup your Gmail account that at…
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Computer Interfaces: Interactive Mirror
This is a patent pending touch capable mirror features proximity sensors, gesturing, and both near-field and far-field infrared. Conceptualized by Alpay Kasal of Lit Studios and Sam Ewen of Interference Inc. Designed/constructed by Alpay Kasal.
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