MS Surface is getting out of a fun tech

Into great platform for next gen serious applications.

And what can be more death serious then heart surgery?

See this amazing demo HERE.

Skyfire - is there finally a decent mobile browser?

Maybe, I can't really tell, because it is gettable only in US and Canada. Too bad, it looks great on demo and specs. But please try, and give me some feedback :)

http://www.skyfire.com/

Reach out technology

http://on10.net/blogs/nic/Hands-On-With-Microsoft-TAG-Barcode-20/

How to connect physical world with digital info from internet, directly.
Easily - MS TAG Barcode.

Not yet another technology, but more a forerunner of digital info reaching out, and it will reach.

Be in first wave, develop with it. We will.

Live Mesh

So you already heard about it, maybe read few posts here and there, with conclusion what it is capable of, in general of course...

But have you seen it in action?
I didn't think so :) so HERE it is, great demo from colaab.

Enjoy

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Don't say you didn't use it before calling me for obvious problems :)

This is what Microsoft can do :)!

http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/redmond/projects/songsmith/

Just go there and play the video!

Curse of Vista - Bless of Windows 7 :: Media Foundation

Vista is strange OS, excellent in so many areas, but overall package always missing the point somehow.

Media Foundation is similar, why in the earth would you like to switch from DirectShow and broad XP support by paying hefty fee of C++ developers time to upgrade to newer Media Foundation Vista specific?

On first look it seems like Curse Of Vista, simply all Vista specific things didn't really enter developers main stream.

So here it is, new Windows 7 Media Foundation.
I've read few "what's new"s like this one:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb970511(VS.85).aspx

and I'm still not convinced that I should spend a minute by upgrading to it.

But there is a possibility that Course of Vista will transcend to something like Bless of Windows 7, so stay tuned for reports from real life, mainly performance upgrades.