September, 2008

I'm obviously not keeping in touch (excuse the pun) with some of the "surface" technology. Here is a couple of examples of Touch Wall (Surface - Vertical - sort of) I missed in May. Its not to hard to see this being used in a city office lobby:

At the Windows Digital Lifestyle Conference in Tokyo, Bill Gates unveiled a few more details regarding the upcoming operating system . According to the transcript, the key aspects of Windows 7 will be "the ability to be lower power, take less memory,...

Thanks to Chris Birmele for pointing me at PPTFlex. PPTFlex a prototype developed by Office Labs in partnership with the PowerPoint team.  Their goal is to get lots of feedback to test the concept.  Here is an example of my recent presentation...

My friend Robert has been fishing for a reaction on his comments on Vista. I know he was poking some fun but I thought I'd better blog my own "Why Vista".   Yes, Vista took around 4 years to come to fruition (from the last release) and...

Thanks to M3 Sweatt for his post on building a Halo Master Chief Outfit for Halloween from a Pepakura model . Opening up the designer you can get some great models that people have built. I'm going to give this one a go for some fun for the family. There...

As part of the well announced and expected Advertising campaign to bring back the Vista reality, today Microsoft aired its first advertisement featuring Bill Gates and Seinfeld named "Shoe Circus" I'm glad this campaign has finally surfaced as Vista truly...

As a 90’s fan of the Netscape browser – never to don the cap to Favorites than Bookmarks, and then gradually shifting across for reasons that now escape me – I didn’t think I’d be revisiting the browser. Incidentally I put all my links onto delicious...

At TechEd Pre-Day today I was there when our team from Amnesia rolled out 1 of their 2 (and the only 2) in Australia.Thanks to Brady O'Halloran (Amnesia) and Tatham Oddie (Readify) for walking me through the standard and customised demo respectively....