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SoundWave: Control PC with Kinect-like Gestures [Doppler Effect]
We love Gestures, don’t we? Whether its your multitouch screen or a Kinect gameplay, not having to make enough effort to get things done serves our taste buds. Microsoft Labs…
Windows Phone 8 Apollo Features [WP8 Overview]
We all know how Windows 8 is going to be all about metro with lots of back-end improvements. Windows Phone 8 would follow the same trend for Windows phone 7.x…
Future of Computing, on the go
Microsoft has been creating a number of concept videos which highlight the imagination that might shape the Future of computing. The video begins with a business woman visiting Johannesburg and…
Make any Surface TouchScreen
We’ve seen how you can use your hand as TouchScreen. However, with the hack finally being mastered with Kinect technology, you can make just any surface touch screen, no matter…
How Windows 8 could kill Linux, MultiBoot OS
Microsoft has finally forked a way to kill its smaller rival, Linux from the PC / desktop segment. Since most PCs are only designed to run Windows, and Windows 8…
Windows 8 Tablet Handson [Video, Review]
Microsoft has unveiled company’s next Big thing: Windows 8 for Tablets. Metro UI The initial response to the tablet is sure positive but if don’t like Metro UI, you would…
Access Anyone’s Location Database
Microsoft had been trying to build a location database, similar to what Google had done using street view cars, consisting of data based on publicly broadcast MAC addresses with their corresponding…
Windows 8 Features Handson
Microsoft has finally raised the curtains off the next generation of Windows, Windows8 at the D9 Conference. Microsoft claims that Windows 8 is a “reimagining of Windows, from the chip…
Windows Phone 7 Mango update: 500 New features
The details of its ‘Mango’ update to Windows Phone 7 (or WP7.5) are out and most of the feature improvements brings WP7 in-line with Android and iOS: Note: This thread…
Future Home Vision by Microsoft
We love to see Microsoft Research’s Future vision with their occasional demos. Their latest idea revolves around Future Home Vision, a playground to demonstrate the potential of the future homes….
Upgrading Windows 1.0 to Windows 7 – 20 years of Backward Compatiblity
Not many of us have used the early versions of Windows, that existed nearly 2 decades ago. Many of us believe that “Windows upgrade” is buggy and doesn’t work well when you…
Windows 8 Milestone 2 Finalizes, Full Schedule leaked
Microsoft has made big sales with Windows 7 and hopes to do even better with a new 64bit ground up built OS – Windows 8. Windows 8 would get architectural…
Microsoft Surface 2 features Pixel Sense, beyond MultiTouch
What’s beyond multitouch? Well, it’s a screen that can see anything that touches it. Microsoft has announced a brand new Microsoft Surface at CES 2011 featuring all new windows 7…
Windows Phone 7 sells 40k on first day. Sales Forecast lower than iPhone, Android
When Apple launched iPhone 4, it broke every previous history and became the singlemost highest selling product, atleast for first few weeks. Knowing that Microsoft has grown up to live…
Watch Microsoft Windows Phone 7 Launch Event Live
Microsoft is launching Windows Phone 7 today at a special event. WP holds the final hope for Microsoft to re-enter mobile market. Will they be able to take on this…
