November 2007 - Posts
From the first post, I've really enjoyed the feedback around what kinds of verticals Microsoft should pursue with Surface. So many of you have raised your hand for education, which is awesome! There are some great blogs around experimental and philanthropic
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In winter/spring of this year I was asked to do some applications-development training for our internal teams in China and Japan as well as our external partners. In addition to my own experiences developing Surface apps, I talked with many team members
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I’m a big consumer electronics fan and will use the word "love" when speaking about some of the products I own. In all of those cases I can enthusiastically describe the product and it's benefits to someone who may get it and get excited about its benefits,
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Last weekend I was asked to go to Boston to help demo Surface at a Sheraton event. I was a last minute addition to this trip due to an emergency for one of the other demo people. I wanted to share my experience as well as all the great work being done
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“The future is here right now; it’s just highly distributed.” So quipped my friend Bill Buxton, one of the doyens of surface computing here @ Microsoft. In a lot of ways, we’re trying to offer a twist on that with Microsoft Surface, our first product
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As you might have read by now, C|Net reported that the first Surface units will be in the wild a little later than we originally planned. It’s a slight shift in timing for us, but we think that some of the stuff we’ve been working on is worth a little
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The Photos app is one of the most popular ones to demo. People really love the type of natural interactions it enables. David Anson was so inspired that he wrote a Silverlight demo with similar behavior. Miguel de Icaza then expanded on that to do an
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Any Boston-area Surface enthusiasts out there? We're bringing Surface (three to be exact) to the lobby of the Sheraton Boston Hotel (39 Dalton Street Boston, MA 02199) on Saturday, November 10th from 10am to 3pm. We'll be showcasing how the Sheraton plans
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I’ve gotten a number of emails from people who are really psyched about Surface and are wondering how to best prepare themselves to eventually be able to build killer apps for it. My best advice is to start building up expertise in the latest .NET UI
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Hi, My name is Jeff Westerinen, and welcome to my blog. I lead hardware development for Surface here at Microsoft, and I’ll be sharing some insights on Surface hardware from time to time here on this blog. We have some pretty talented people on our team,
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Hi there! My name is Robert Levy and I’m the Program Manager for the Surface SDK. I’m responsible for driving our APIs and UI controls in addition to the overall experience developers go through in building awesome apps for Surface. Before joining Surface,
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Okay so it's a tisch dated...but only by a couple of days. Check it out... http://video.msn.com/video.aspx?vid=69ee53bc-46bb-4681-8df4-3ede56b1e94f Have a great weekend everyone, K Robert Warnick
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Hello! I’m Kevin Kennedy and I’m a software developer on the Surface Team. I’ve been on this project since Jan ‘04. I primarily do applications development and even got to write some of the demo apps that we’ve been showing. In addition to development
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Hello. My name is Ali Vassigh and I manage Surface's User Experience team. My team of designers and writers are responsible for defining and creating your experience with all the aspects of Surface you can see, hear, touch, and generally interact with
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Welcome to the Microsoft Surface blog. Our first post! Our plan with this blog is to share the latest and greatest developments within our group, meet our unique team, give you sneak peeks at new features, apps, demos and cool UX interactions. We’ll post
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