At D9 today, Microsoft demoed Windows 8 for the first time. This next version of Windows blends the current Windows UI with Immersive UI. Immersive experience is Metro UI designed specially for Tablets and touch screens. Windows 8’s UI is designed to scale from small to large screens with or without touch support, keyboard or mouse. The immersive experience is much similar to the Metro UI in Windows Phone 7 but enhanced to be suitable for tablets and touch panels.
Previously leaked by CNBeta, History Vault is a feature in Windows 8 that works like Time Machine in Mac OS X. The previously leaked build of Windows 8 (7955) appears to have History Vault feature in function.
Immersive UI, the idea of Windows Phone 7 like Metro-based UI (for tablets maybe), is leaked to be a key feature in Windows 8. Recently Windows 8 build 7955 got leaked in the wild and shows Immersive UI for the web browser. See the screenshots:
Someone known as 'Andy' has posted the details about the leaked Windows 8 build 7955 on BetaArchive. Milestone 2 of Windows 8 ended at build 7 v950 and we can say this this build is an earlier version of Milestone 3. Previously build 7850 was leaked 5 months ago.
Recently, we published a big collection of free high quality Windows 7 Themes. And we are updating it regularly.
The title of the following video might be misleading, this video actually showcases the change in 19 years of IT and productivity at an imaginary company and the implementation of Microsoft productivity solutions. The video glimpses the possibilities and evolution of Microsoft technologies in productivity.
[via istartedsomething]
The world’s best selling gadget, Microsoft Kinect, has already started to revolutionize the gaming and user experience. Several hacks have been out demonstrating endless possibilities of this technology.
Recently, the doctors at SunnyBrook hospital in Toronto, Canada have attached Kinect to their medical imaging computer that lets them to manipulate the 3D rendered CT images by waving their hands, watch the video:
Over 2500 Nokia employees in Finland work on Symbian OS. When they got news of Nokia Partnering with Microsoft to dump Symbian for Windows Phone 7, over 1000s of them went out on streets protesting to tell Nokia that they are not loving it.
[image via hs.fi]
In a recent Microsoft and Nokia’s joint press conference, it was announced that the future Nokia devices will be Windows Phone 7 devices and Symbian will be left out.
I was a huge fan of Nokia until Symbian started to suck and awesomeness of iOS and Android emerged. And then there is Windows Phone 7, a new player in market that has a great potential and I simply love it. Now with Windows Phone 7 as a primary operating system on Nokia devices, Nokia seems to be returning back to the awesomeness required for the modern mobile devices.
Windows Azure is a very sophisticated cloud computing platform. I first tired Windows Azure when it was in CTP, and after a long time I tried it again and was impressed by the improvements. The Windows Azure SDK 1.3 enables you to use Remote Desktop Services to access your Windows Azure roles that gives the access to the configuration of virtual machine. You can install apps on your cloud VM via remote desktop.
How about installing SQL Server on your Windows Azure VM Role and using it instead of Azure Table and SQL Azure to store data? Not really a good idea but in my opinion, it can be a good idea for the temporary storage of data.
