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Microsoft ThinkWeeks a thing of the past?

Microsoft ThinkWeeks a thing of the past?BillG is still BillG, so is MSFTi don't think billG has been involved any less than before. maybe a little less in details. but other people's decision only matter if it is not going different way with his.RE: Microsoft ThinkWeeks a thing of the...

Tags: MSR, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft ThinkWeek, Billg

Discussion threads 2009-02-12

Microsoft Research and their secret projects

Microsoft Research and their secret projectsAgreed, congrats on U.S.A. for doing the right thing ...... and now it's time for that new friendlier form of Capitalism that Gates spoke of.We may be entering an era where technology can benefit now - in other words, the filthy greed that once was...

Tags: Microsoft Research, Microsoft Corp.

Discussion threads 2008-11-04

The technologies which will change our lives

We are at a strange place in this world's history, where the Industrial Revolution is over, and we're in the new technological age. So many things have been discovered over the course of the last and this century, and we're still no closer to reaching a technological...

Tags: Earth, Multi-touch, Computing, Technology, Microsoft Research, MSR, Rootkits, Internet, Security, Spyware, Adware & Malware, Zack Whittaker

Blog posts 2008-10-24

Microsoft Research shows off what's next for search

New Microsoft Research MSR search techniques and technologies under development were a hot topic at the March 6 kick-off of Microsofts TechFest 2007 research showcase. (TechFest is open to press and analysts on Tuesday and to Microsoft employees on Wednesday and Thursday. Microsoft broadcast the opening TechFest address via...

Tags: Corporate strategy, Search, Web 2.0, Windows Live

Blog posts 2007-03-06

MS-Google face-off: This time in distributed computing

At this week’s open house for press and analysts, Microsoft Research MSR will be showing off a multitude of projects, including a so far little-publicized distributed-computing platform under development that is code-named “Dryad.” Dryad is one of a number of large-scale-computing efforts in which Microsoft researchers are engaged....

Tags: Dryad team, Dryad, Dryad Web site

Blog posts 2006-09-26

Microsoft hones its research-to-commercial-product pipeline

In any Microsoft Research MSR discussion, Microsoft officials emphasize that MSR does both basic and applied research with no pressure applied to researchers to productize the results. Accordingly, there is no guarantee that any given MSR technology will be commercialized at some specific date, in some specific way. That caveat...

Tags: MSR

Blog posts 2006-09-26

Additional Resources

New Microsoft social computing lab formed under Ozzie

desktop social networkingI saw this awhile back when doing some research and bookmarked it, looks to be a promising angle, and involving this team:http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/projects/SocialDesktop/Lili, Social Desktop, and Live MeshThis must mean that Social Desktop (Lili's previous MSR project) is on the fast track to productization.I also find it interesting that...

Tags: Social networking, Desktops, social computing, Lili, Social Desktop

Discussion threads 2009-10-08

Ensuring Network Reliability and Quality for IP Surveillance - Korenix MSR: The Most Reliable and High Quality IP Surveillance Network Your Best Partner of IP Surveillance

Along with the emerging market of IP surveillance, network plays increasingly important role in a video surveillance system. The network in its turn, determines the reliability and quality of video delivery. This paper describes the importance of network redundancy for IP surveillance network. It gives a clear idea of how...

Tags: Network, IP, Video, Network Reliability, Korenix Technology, Networking, Corporate Communications, Network Technology, Marketing

White papers 2009-08-04

Take An Order! 2.9.11 (Mobile)

Are you selling products at trade shows or expos? Taking orders from customers in their home or office? Submitting bids or issuing quotations in a field situation? Delivering product and need to issue a receipt? For all these situations and more, Take An Order! is the handheld tool you need....

Tags: Mobile, Item, Stevens Creek Software, Palm OS, Handhelds, Wireless And Mobility, Operating Systems, Software, Hardware

Software downloads 2009-04-05

News to know: Congress; Newser; Apple; VMware; High-speed rail

Harry Fuller: Confronting Congressional hypocrisy The U.S. is losing it Tom Steinert-Threlkeld: Newser Versus The New York Times, Revisited: Who's Copying Whom? Andrew Nusca: Apple director: 'no change' in Jobs' plans Sam Diaz: No Twitter blasts...

Tags: Google Inc., Dana Blankenhorn, U.S. Congress, Mary Jo Foley, Apple Inc., VMware Inc., Sam Diaz, Netbooks, Nettops & MIDs, Cloud Computing, E-mail Providers, Strategy, Hardware, Internet, Management

Blog posts 2009-02-26

MSR releases U Rank; jumps on the Google bandwagon

MSR releases U Rank; jumps on the Google bandwagonWhat'd you expect Zack?For Ballmer & company to stop stealing err umm. I meant borrowing others technology. Microsoft never cared who owned it. If it was up to snuff , they wanted it. The days are fast approaching when Microsoft will be...

Tags: Construction, Google Inc.

Discussion threads 2009-02-25

MSR releases U Rank; jumps on the Google bandwagon

Has Microsoft stolen this from Apple? Has Apple blatantly stolen something from Google? These types of questions are constantly batted around to discredit other organisations and companies by idiosyncratic bloggers. In the instance of Microsoft Research's new social networking search item, U Rank and Viveri, some of...

Tags: Google Inc., Search Engine, Microsoft Corp., Search Result, Search, Zack Whittaker

Blog posts 2009-02-25

Apple

Applere: So, will Cook and Co. release the hounds?That question was rhetorical, wasn't it?Apple can now sue EVERY touch screen device maker!!1!1one!!1From the patent:[i]detecting [b]one[/b] or more finger contacts with the touch screen display[/i]This patent doesn't cover just multi-touch, it also covers single touch. All touch screen devices have detected...

Tags: Keyboards, Monitors & displays, Tablets, touch screen, Pre, multi-touch, Apple Inc., patent, Apple iPhone, Palm Inc., Microsoft Corp.

Discussion threads 2009-01-27

Would Apple sue Palm over Pre IP?

Would Apple sue Palm over Pre IP?Would be pathetic to do soThat would be low from even Apple to do so though this wouldn't surprise me. However this could show that Palm is the first to really worry Apple Smartphone wise. It could be interesting to see if Palm will...

Tags: Telecom & Utilities, Cellular phones, Network technology, Handhelds, emperor, Apple Inc., Pre IP, Palm Inc., Apple iPhone

Discussion threads 2009-01-22

Microsoft Research and their secret projects

Over the years, Microsoft has dominated the marketplace with some ground breaking products. Not just Windows or Office, but spreading to the web, communications, education and research. But most people will know they work behind the scenes on seemingly insignificant stuff, that may or may not end up being the...

Tags: Microsoft Corp., 3D Face Modelling, Wi-Fi, Podcasts, Wireless, Internet, Zack Whittaker

Blog posts 2008-11-04

The opportunities in search

The opportunities in searchEr, Murph, we already talked about this.MSR Lincoln is [i]"Lincoln is a Microsoft Research prototype which allows you to search for information about an object by just taking a photo of it.Your photo is matched against a set of images tagged with relevant web pages and comments...

Tags: Google Inc., advertisement, photograph

Discussion threads 2008-08-20

Working online from home in your pyjamas

A good proportion of a working day in the average office, is indeed working outside of the office. It seems nowadays though, the opportunity has arisen to let those who can't get a job - students for example - to utilise their skills for the online market. Working from home...

Tags: Poster, Task, Web Browsers, Recruitment & Selection, Internet, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Zack Whittaker

Blog posts 2008-07-01

Microsoft, Intel to team on new parallel, multicore research efforts

In what has become a not-so-secret secret, Microsoft and Intel are set to unveil on March 18 their joint funding of more parallel-processing research work, according to various industry reports. EETimes says the Wintel couple will announce it is helping fund the new Parallel Computing Lab at...

Tags: Team, Microsoft Corp., Multi-core, Intel Corp., EETimes, Microsoft Research Folk, Dryad, Team Management, Management, Mary Jo Foley

Blog posts 2008-03-17

HWDirect 1.88 (Windows)

HWDirect is an advanced low-level hardware register access software utility for Windows. It allows user to read and modify PC system hardware registers. With current latest version, HWDIRECT encapsulates nine separate tools. They are OSInfo, CPUID Info, PCI Read/Write Support PCI Express Enhanced Configuration registers, I/O Read/Write, MSR Read/Write, CMOS...

Tags: Allocation, PCI Express, eProtek Systems, HWDirect, PCI, Microsoft Windows, Storage, Hardware, Operating Systems, Software

Software downloads 2008-03-14

Microsoft plays with new non-Windows OS; If only it could start from scratch

Microsoft plays with new non-Windows OS; If only it could start from scratchNow that makes sense.Which means it probably won't happen.Makes too much senseWindows is now an unmanagable mess. This solution makes complete sense! They talk about backward compadiblity, but if they are so concerned about backward compadiblity,...

Tags: Operating systems, Virtualization, operating system, new OS, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows Vista

Discussion threads 2008-03-05