Vikram’s “Muse”

“And this one thing is what gives the confidence, however out of place this confidence might seem, to be absolutely unworried about the permanence of this bond. How can you somehow lose your reflection?” - Vikram

Quick Notes from the PDC

Great Win 7 demo. For those of us who is into UX, the new UI features are outlined here. Great Touch UI improvements. My next laptop HAS to be a convertible with multi-touch (along with the digitizer). I saw most praise from the audience for the stability ...

And finally – The Mac Tablet

There was a period in time, between working with Microsoft Research at Caltech and working for Microsoft now, when I worked on all sorts of non-microsoft things. We were building a new open source media experience for unix and linux (and it's community) and I was having a ton of fun ...

Mac Tablet at WWDC

Okay... everyone is having fun making claims about all the fun stuff coming out at WWDC. Here is my totally unsubstantiated prediction: The Mac Tablet is coming! Now that it's out of the way, I do hope they put out a Macbook Pro that's updated to Merom and with a two ...

Asus Tablet and UMPC make an appearance at Computex

Just came across coverage of Asus's offerings that were on display at Computex. PC Perspective has comprehensive coverage of Computex and here they have details on W7J, R1 tablet and the R2 UMPC. This Asus R1 model is the upcoming release featuring the tablet PC concept, as you can easily see. ...

June 11th 2009
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Instant Translations in Bing

The Bing instant answer feature powered by Microsoft Translator went live yesterday. I wanted to highlight some tips and caveats. On availability: This has currently been rolled out to all English and Spanish speaking markets. Other language markets will follow shortly. You get the instant answer if your to: ...
March 16th 2009
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Counting down to MIX 09

Our team members have started descending into Las Vegas for MIX09. I will be reaching tomorrow morning, and will be in prep for our sessions and announcement. You can follow the action on twitter. I recall being very impressed with the very first MIX, what with the convergence of designer ...
January 14th 2009
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Installing Windows Seven from a USB disk

I have been running Win 7 builds since last October and I have to say I haven't booted in my other partitions since that time (earlier I used to boot into OSX on one of my laptops, and to other assorted server OS partitions on my other machines). 7 is ...
October 28th 2008
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Quick Notes from the PDC

Great Win 7 demo. For those of us who is into UX, the new UI features are outlined here. Great Touch UI improvements. My next laptop HAS to be a convertible with multi-touch (along with the digitizer). I saw most praise from the audience for the stability ...
April 27th 2008
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Very Astute Article from Steve Gilmor on Mesh

Just Say Yes - Gilmor talks about what Mesh means to the world. If you don't know much about Mesh you can get that here.