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Live Labs: 3D photo worlds with Photosynth

A few months ago we have seen the prototype and some videos of Microsoft Research’s Photosynth application. It was quite impressing and yesterday Photosynth has been released as a public technology preview on the Microsoft Live web site. Live Labs is describing the software as: Photosynth combines hundreds or thousands of regular digital photos of [...]


Microsoft / Novell: Are Windows and Linux becoming buddies?

Yesterday the two CEOs of Microsoft and Novell in a joint press conference told the public that they have agreed on a set of broad business and technical collaborations …to build, market and support a series of new solutions to make Novell and Microsoft(R) products work better together… The two companies also agreed to provide [...]


Microsoft releases Windows Defender

After beta testing the software since January 2005 today Microsoft has released its first version of Windows Defender. The free application is intended to protect MS Windows users from …pop-ups, slow performance, and security threats caused by spyware and other unwanted software… Windows Defender might raise the stakes for security vendors like Symantec and McAfee [...]


New MS Webcam: LifeCam NX-6000

The new LifeCam NX-6000 extends Microsoft’s existing series of webcams with a compact model designed specifically for notebook computers. Key features: High Definition video: 2.0 megapixel – (1280 × 1024 resolution) Video effects Still Image Resolution: 7.6 megapixel – (3200 × 2380 pixels, interpolated) Wide-angle lens with 71 degree field of view Automatic face tracking [...]


New Flight Simulator from Microsoft

The long awaited new version of Microsoft Flight Simulator will be hitting the stores next week. Microsoft Game Studios has further enhanced lots of the already exiting features of the previous version (Flight Simulator 2004). Additional missions as well as new planes are include with many other new features. Microsoft has created a great Flash [...]