Sponsored White Papers, Webcasts, and Downloads
ZDNet Resources
- Podcast: News to know midday: Novell, Microsoft pact; PlayTable coming; Tough iPod Shuffles
- Today's podcast includes: Deciphering Novell's disclosures about the Microsoft SUSE Linux pact. Mary Jo Foley asks: Will Microsoft's 'Milan,' aka PlayTable, pit multi-touch vs. the iPhone? PlayTable to surface soon. Jason O'Grady runs over his iPod Shuffle.As a reminder, you can get this podcast on iTunes. See all news to know updates...
- Tags: General, News to know
- Blog posts 2007-05-29
- News to know: Microsoft-Novell; FTC probes Google; Meet the PlayTable
- Notable headlines:Larry Dignan: Parsing the details of the Microsoft-Novell pact. Dana Blankenhorn: Novell document dump makes it look like a scandal. Mary Jo Foley: Novell publishes details on its Microsoft patent deal.New York Times: Google Deal Said to Bring U.S. Scrutiny. Â AP on the FTC probe.Mary Jo Foley: Microsoft...
- Tags: General, News to know
- Blog posts 2007-05-29
- What would you do with Microsoft's PlayTable?
- What would you do with Microsoft's PlayTable?Yaaawn ...Old news, already done on a *nix platform:http://cs.nyu.edu/~jhan/ftirtouch/MS needs to innovate, not appropriate! :)Probably not a good idea......to encourage hand gestures when it comes to software especially MS software. :-DProbably about as usable as voice recognition.And we all know how wildly popular that...
- Tags: Corporate communications, Monitors & displays, PlayTable, Microsoft Corp.
- Discussion threads 2007-05-25
- What would you do with Microsoft's PlayTable?
- Mary Jo Foley reports that Microsoft will unveil its PlayTable technology next week and the potential applications should be interesting.Mary Jo notes:PlayTable — which also has gone by the codenames "Table" and, most recently, "Project Milan" — is a multi-touch, gestural- and object-recognition interface technology on which Microsoft has been...
- Tags: General, Microsoft, Software Infrastructure
- Blog posts 2007-05-25
- Microsoft to take the wraps off 'PlayTable'
- Microsoft to take the wraps off 'PlayTable'This is unpossibleThis is not possible. Everybody knows Apple invented the multi-touch interface when they unveiled the iPhone.Apple even patented their innovation. You must all be lying/confused/brainwashed.[/sarcasm]Funny how some of these technologies only exist after Apple baubalizes them. This is a perfect...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows, Research & Development, PRODUCTIVITY, Microsoft Corp., PlayTable, Jeff Han, stove
- Discussion threads 2007-05-25
- Microsoft to take the wraps off 'PlayTable'
- After at least three years of sneak peeks, Microsoft is finally set to take the official wraps off its PlayTable technology.PlayTable -- which also has gone by the codenames "Table" and, most recently, "Project Milan" -- is a a multi-touch, gestural- and object-recognition interface technology on which Microsoft has been...
- Tags: Code names, Corporate strategy, Research
- Blog posts 2007-05-25
Additional Resources
- Getting a glimpse of the spherical Microsoft Surface
- The rumored spherical Microsoft Surface has made a quick guest appearance in a Microsoft Research promotional video. It's only a two-second shot (minutes 3:57 to 3:59) in the video, but there it is: A spherical Surface. (Microsoft showed this video at its early March...
- Tags: Video, Microsoft Corp., Corporate Communications, Marketing, Mary Jo Foley
- Blog posts 2008-04-20
- CES: New applications to surface for Microsoft Surface
- Sunday night is Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates' big hurrah: His last Consumer Electronics Show CES keynote as Chief Software Architect. Gates is expected to talk about future scenarios for the Microsoft Surface platform as part of his keynote address (according to an e-mail message I got from...
- Tags: Consumer Electronics Show, Team, Bill Gates, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Surface Team, Team Management, Management, Mary Jo Foley
- Blog posts 2008-01-04
- A (Microsoft) Code Name a Day: Milan
- I'm resuming my Microsoft Code Name a Day series that I started in December 2006. The goal: To provide the back story, each day in August, on one of Microsoft's myriad code names. Some of these code names might be familiar to Microsoft watchers; others hopefully will be brand-new.Microsoft code...
- Tags: Microsoft Corp., Mary Jo Foley
- Blog posts 2007-08-23
- Microsoft Research's PlayAnywhere: A surface computer for the rest of us?
- Microsoft Research's PlayAnywhere: A surface computer for the rest of us?Interesting, butThe technology discussed in the article sounds pretty nice. I however think MS should focus a lot on the multi-touch screen technology I discussed [url=http://tinyurl.com/2kfd7y]here[/url] – for which a taste of its multi-touch aspect is shown in [url=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0h_OO4Gz28c]this video[/url].Surface...
- Tags: PRODUCTIVITY, Microsoft Windows, computer, Microsoft Research, Mary Jo, PlayAnywhere, Microsoft Corp.
- Discussion threads 2007-07-18
- Microsoft Research's PlayAnywhere: A surface computer for the rest of us?
- PlayTable finally saw the light of day in the form of Microsoft's Surface multi-touch table. But there's a related technology that's been under development by Microsoft Research -- "PlayAnywhere" -- which still has yet to go commercial.At this week's Faculty Research Summit, Microsoft researchers showed off, yet again, PlayAnywhere. Here's...
- Tags: Research, Corporate strategy, Code names
- Blog posts 2007-07-18
- Microsoft provides first public demo of the Surface tabletop
- On Saturday, June 9, at the Sheraton New York Hotel & Towers, Microsoft let the public see, touch and test-drive the Surface interactive tabletop system that the company unveiled at the end of May.Surface -- the product formerly codenamed "PlayTable," and later "Milan" -- is a hardware-software bundle that Microsoft...
- Tags: Vista, Research, Corporate strategy, Code names
- Blog posts 2007-06-09
- Is Microsoft becoming a hardware vendor?
- Microsoft for years has been building keyboards, mice and joysticks. More recently, it started building Xbox gaming consoles. Then Zune MP3 players. Now, with the company's official unveiling of Surface, a k a Milan/PlayTable, Microsoft is mamufacturing large-screen, multitouch, gesture-recognizing computing devices.Does all this mean that software vendor Microsoft is...
- Tags: Apple, Channel, Corporate strategy, OEMs, Resellers, System builders, Xbox, Zune
- Blog posts 2007-05-31
- Microsoft's greatest hits: Tablet PC, UMPC, Zune, Surface Computing...
- As expected Microsoft unveiled its multi-touch computing system and it's shocking how this news announcement played out to script. Microsoft briefed the world, got the coverage see Techmeme and gave Bill Gates some ammo for his dog-and-pony show with Apple CEO Steve Jobs. Meanwhile, the table-top computing technology is way...
- Tags: General, Microsoft, Personal Technology, Software Infrastructure
- Blog posts 2007-05-30
- Do you want a Surface Computer?
- Microsoft went public at 12:01 a.m. on May 30 with the name of its "Milan"/PlayTable technology. The combined hardware/software device is now known as the Surface Computer and is due to debut in November.In one of many press releases on Milan and surface computing on Microsoft's PressPass site this morning,...
- Tags: Code names, Corporate strategy, Windows Mobile, Xbox, Zune
- Blog posts 2007-05-30
- The hype cycle behind Steve and Bill's dueling banjo show
- Bill Gates and Steve Jobs share the stage tomorrow at the D: All Things Digital conference, but the lead-up to the event will probably be more interesting. What will we get? Basically a dueling banjos thing where Microsoft unveils its PlayTable technology, which aside from Mary Jo Foley few have...
- Tags: Apple, General, Microsoft
- Blog posts 2007-05-29
- Will Microsoft pit 'Milan' multi-touch against Apple's iPhone?
- Will Microsoft pit 'Milan' multi-touch against Apple's iPhone?M$ realeases more vaporwareGate$ needs his 2 minutes of fame to tell us about new M$ vaporware.Nothing more, just strugulling to stay relevant!The usual MOWe have it too!!! Let's state our vision of the future after someone else states theirs or has actually...
- Tags: Keyboards, Advertising & Promotion, vaporware, Microsoft Corp., Apple iPhone, Apple Inc.
- Discussion threads 2007-05-29
- Will Microsoft pit 'Milan' multi-touch against Apple's iPhone?
- It's show time for Microsoft's "Milan" multi-touch and gestural interface technology. And I wouldn't be surprised if Microsoft decides to make this week's Wall Street Journal tech conference the debutante ball.Milan, the technology previously known as "PlayTable," and, later, "Table," has been in incubation for the past few years...
- Tags: Apple, Code names, Corporate strategy, Research, Zune
- Blog posts 2007-05-29
- << Previous
- page 1 of 1
- Next >>
White Papers and Webcasts
Designed specifically to address the concerns of senior IT managers at organizations with more than 100 employees, the Intel Premier IT Professional Program provides best practices via local and e-Seminars and a members-only Web site.
