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Communication History from Longhorn Prototypes in 2004: Now Possible With New Windows 7 in 2009?
Had a conversation with Yochay Kiriaty, who leads Windows 7 Evangelism for Developers in DPE and he had let me know about the new Windows API Code Pack that was just released a week ago . In short, Windows API Code Pack is a project inside Windows SDK Read More...
First public Location Platform Driver is available – Find Your Location Based On Your IP address!
Hello there colleagues, I’m sorry for not writing too much last time, too busy with regular job that is you now in this crazy time becoming extremely important :) So far, I wanted to say that also excuse us and our partners across the globe for no public Read More...
First Context-Aware Platform for Windows is launched today!
I want to share with you our happiness here at Microsoft for Chris Karr’s new project, Jarvis, first deliverables. Chris Karr is working in The Laboratory for Understanding Collaborative Technology in Northwestern University, IL, US. His work is concentrated Read More...
Windows 7 Navigation Application Released!
Hello to all! As you remember two months ago just a week after PDC 2008 I’ve created a sample Windows 7 Location Aware WPF Application. You can consider it as a mashup:   What It Showcases? How to access Windows 7 Location Platform data in your .NET Read More...
New Russian blog on developing context-aware systems on Windows!
Friends and colleagues, Happy New Year!! Now when Windows 7 is available for everyone , it’s now time for developing on Windows 7! Now we are creating a new dedicated blog on Windows 7 where we will talk about how you can develop context-aware applications Read More...
Happy New Year! Windows 7 Beta is here!
Hello and Happy New Year! Windows 7 Beta is here!!! · Get the Windows 7 Beta: Download the Windows 7 Beta from the MSDN site. · Test for compatibility: Ensure your new applications are compatible with Windows Vista; that is the best way to prepare for Read More...
Videos of our talk on Context Awareness at WUD 2008 are published now!
Happy to share with you that videos of our speech (in Russian, sorry) on Context Awareness technologies that we made on World Usability Day in Russia on November 13 this year were published: You can find English version of our presentation in the previous Read More...
World Usability Day Russia 2008
Hi there again, News from the field. Last Thursday we made a third announcement on Windows Sensor and Location Platform, our commitment to make context awareness an important aspect of software development in order to make software user friendly, prospects Read More...
Windows 7 & Multi-touch: N-trig published new firmware for Windows 7 pre-beta
link is here: http://www.n-trig.com/Content.aspx?Page=Multi_Touch note that it will remove support for pen (but only in this pre-beta package). Read More...
WinHEC 2008
Steven Sinofsky just announced the Sensors Dev Kit for Windows 7 and the fact that Windows 7 is Context-Aware now, starting with Windows Sensor and Location Platform! Follow news and blog posts today to know more about the new Context-Aware APIs in Windows Read More...
Sample Location-Aware WPF Application
Hi there, started playing with Windows Location Platform bits in Windows 7 M3 that was given on PDC 2008 to all attendees, and decided to quickly write a WPF app that shows the Virtual Earth map and my location on it. Quick Facts In M3 build, all Location Read More...
Windows Sensors & Location Platform Booth @ Microsoft PDC
Hi there, that’s Daniel Kornev blogging right from Microsoft PDC in L.A.! As I told previously, we just released a Windows Sensors & Location Platform with Windows 7 here @ PDC, and what’s amazing is that our very own PC|3 Team representatives – Dan Read More...
Windows Sensors Platform: Sensors Categories Windows 7 handle for writing Context-Aware Applications
Hi there, that’s Daniel, writing right from Microsoft PDC. As you know those who are on Microsoft PDC now got a nice looking like “Sensors Development Kit” and a session on “Windows 7 Sensors & Location Platform: Creating Context-Aware Applications” Read More...
Writing Context-Aware Applications: The Windows 7 Sensor and Location platform is now live!
As promised , at PDC we Microsoft made a disclosure of Windows 7 to the general public! And, as I told previously, we now are shipping a context-aware Platform consisting of Sensor & Location platforms as a part of Windows 7! Today and by end of PDC Read More...
Windows 7 & Context-Awareness on Microsoft PDC 2008!!!
Hi there, I’ve been quite for some time on this blog. The usual day-by-day job (ru) is making most of my time, but the progress on context-awareness research is slowly growing :) anyway today I wanted to say that we as One Microsoft are proudly telling Read More...
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