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Flexible, Cuttable ViVid Screen Turns Any Window Into an Obnoxious Video Advertising Display

People always compare new technology to Minority Report, specifically Tom Cruise’s ridiculous multitouch command center. But the ViVid screen might bring another, more annoying part of that film into reality: omnipresent video advertising displays! While the ViVid screen is technically an LCD device, it’s not a full-fledged display, as its imagery is supplied by a…

Tech News John Herrman Mar 5

Windows Mobile Finally Gets a Decent Facebook App

You can now download Windows Mobile’s first usable Facebook app, ripped from the latest WinMo 6.5 builds by the kindly Microsoft connoisseurs at XDA. Our tipster points out that an attractive, functional Facebook app is a pretty big step for Windows Mobile users, who either had to put up with the aggressively shitty basic mobile…

Tech News John Herrman Mar 5

Windows 98 Now Runs on the Nokia N95

Just when you were mildly impressed with the fact that the Nokia N95 ran Windows 3.1, you can now be slightly more mildly impressed that it runs Windows 98 (apparently). [DailyMobile] https://gizmodo.com/windows-3-1-runs-on-a-nokia-n95-creating-dangerous-rip-5159221

Tech News Adrian Covert Mar 4

Microsoft Skimps on Shipping Boxes For Owners of RRoD-ed Xboxes?

It’s bad enough going through the hassle of shipping your Xbox 360 off to customer support, but now Microsoft won’t even give you the box to ship it in. Updated. A Consumerist reader complained that after his Xbox red-ringed – again – he called Microsoft to get a shipping box to mail his console in…

Tech News Elaine Chow Mar 4

Porn Star Stoya Reviews Xbox 360 ‘Rumble Massage’

The Xbox 360 “game” Rumble Massage is basically just a way to control the rumbling of your controller. So who better to have review it than someone very familiar with vibrating plastic objects? Stoya is surprisingly down with geeky things. A dedicated Sid Meier fan who grew up learning DOS from her IT dad (daddy…

Tech News Adam Frucci Mar 3

At Last Microsoft Has Upgraded Clippie To Personal Lady Slave

Yesterday Microsoft announced one of its latest research projects: A floating woman’s head named Laura that will live in your monitor and be your “personal assistant.” Laura will not annoy you by having a body, a need for worker’s compensation, or a wish to do anything but serve you – and she will also monitor…

io9 Annalee Newitz Mar 2

Microsoft’s Vision For the Future Gives Me Hope For Humanity

Microsoft’s five minute video on what the year 2019 will look like is pretty goddamn amazing. I want to live in this world. GIVE IT TO ME NOW. The clip was shown at Wharton Business Technology Conference and it’s called 2019. My own enthusiasm aside, it looks like Microsoft’s interpolating various research technologies like Surface…

Tech News Jason Chen Mar 2

Microsoft’s Child ‘I’m a PC’ Ads Only Works With Little Girls Apparently

The first two I’m a PC ads from Microsoft used little girls, and were super super cute. This latest one? Not so much. Nothing against little boys, but nobody likes them using a computer. https://gizmodo.com/latest-im-a-pc-ad-entices-new-windows-users-with-cutene-5149071

Tech News Jason Chen Feb 27

Inside the Mind of Microsoft’s Chief Futurist

If I encountered Craig Mundie on the street, met his kind but humorless gaze and heard that slight southern drawl, I’d guess he was a golf pro—certainly not Microsoft’s Chief of the future. As chief research and strategy officer at Microsoft, Mundie is a living portal of future technology, a focal point between thousands of…

Tech News Wilson Rothman Feb 27

What PC Makers Really Think About Windows 7

You love Windows 7, we love Windows 7, everybody loves Windows 7. Or do they? The top PC makers, Dell and HP, actually have very different opinions about Windows 7. https://gizmodo.com/windows-7-the-complete-guide-5150298 In yesterday’s earnings call (which was pretty miserable for Dell), Michael Dell said, “We’re starting to get pretty excited about Windows 7 and believe…

Tech News Matt Buchanan Feb 27

What’s New in the Next Release of Windows 7

The Engineering Windows 7 blog has a list of thirty six “visible” changes coming in the next version of Windows 7. Here’s a quickie list of the ones worth knowing and hotly anticipating or whatever: Aero Peek—where all the windows on the desktop become transparent except the one you’re highlighting—will now work with Alt+Tab. Just…

Tech News Matt Buchanan Feb 26

Get the Vista Service Pack 2 Release Candidate Next Week

Windows Vista? What’s that? Oh yeah, that Windows before Windows 7. The Vista SP2 Release Candidate went out to MSDN and TechNet subscribers yesterday, and it’s gonna be available for everyone else next week. Mary Jo says that the rumor is that it’ll be all final in April, though the most recent word was that…

Tech News Matt Buchanan Feb 26

Microsoft To Start Shipping Windows 7 in September

Early guesstimates had the Windows 7 release pegged for this summer, and with the release candidate to be released soon, a September ship date sounds just about right. https://gizmodo.com/its-official-windows-7-shipping-mid-2009-5079563 According to a PC contractor that builds for Acer, HP and others PC manufacturers, the software should be available in either late September or early October.…

Tech News Erica Ho Feb 25

Google Attacks Microsoft’s Browser Monopoly

Oh the irony. Google wants to join the European Union’s antitrust case against Microsoft, all while at home Obama’s antitrust chief wants to nail them to a sign that says “Don’t be evil.” https://gizmodo.com/obamas-pick-for-anti-trust-chief-sees-google-as-a-monop-5158138 According to Google’s Sundar Pichai, vice president for product management: Google believes that the browser market is still largely uncompetitive, which…

Tech News Jesus Diaz Feb 25

Realtime Mobile Video Stitching Is So Crazy It Just Might Work

The proposition: You and a bunch of strangers are live streaming mobile-phone video of some event or disaster. A server stitches it all together and instantaneously publishes a rich, immediate patchwork of the action. I love this system, but not necessarily for the same reasons that its developers at Microsoft Research do. I want to…

Tech News Wilson Rothman Feb 25

Berlekamp’s Switch Game May Be Nerdiest Boardgame Ever

The game has 100 bulbs, 10×10. Each row and each column has a switch that turns off bulbs that are on, and turns on bulbs that are off. Can you turn off all the bulbs? The answer, even if you do attempt every possible combination, is no. But according to Microsoft Research, there’s a way…

Tech News Wilson Rothman Feb 24

SecondLight Gives Surface Tables a Second Magical Screen

Here’s a neat trick: This Microsoft Surface table projects an image on its screen, but hold a piece of paper or glass over it, and you see a secret second layer of user interface. The trick that Microsoft Research figured out for SecondLight make sense, when you hear it: The screen is an LCD that…

Tech News Wilson Rothman Feb 24

“Write in the Air” Could Be Xbox’s Next Trick

Microsoft showed off a “Write in the Air” system developed in China. You can write with a gyro controller or in thin air, using a camera. Is it next for the Xbox? You can’t help but notice the giant Xbox logo there on the screen, and the researcher I talked to said that it would…

Tech News Wilson Rothman Feb 24

Office 14 Won’t Ship in 2009 Says Ballmer

The Ballmeister told analysts that Office 14 won’t ship in 2k9, leaving spreadsheet enthusiasts going back to Office 2007 for their chart generating shenanigans. [ZDNet]

Tech News Jason Chen Feb 24

Microsoft’s Interactive Omnidirectional Projector Puts You in the God Seat

An omnidirectional projector with a camera inside watches your hand movements and reacts fast, like a planetarium-wide Surface table. Does it give you a Zaphod-sized ego? Hell yes it does. Check out this vid: As you can, see from the photo above, the computer is tracking hand gestures using a basic gesture language: pinching to…

Tech News Wilson Rothman Feb 24

Flexible, Cuttable ViVid Screen Turns Any Window Into an Obnoxious Video Advertising Display

Windows Mobile Finally Gets a Decent Facebook App

Windows 98 Now Runs on the Nokia N95

Microsoft Skimps on Shipping Boxes For Owners of RRoD-ed Xboxes?

Porn Star Stoya Reviews Xbox 360 ‘Rumble Massage’

At Last Microsoft Has Upgraded Clippie To Personal Lady Slave

Microsoft’s Vision For the Future Gives Me Hope For Humanity

Microsoft’s Child ‘I’m a PC’ Ads Only Works With Little Girls Apparently

Inside the Mind of Microsoft’s Chief Futurist

What PC Makers Really Think About Windows 7

What’s New in the Next Release of Windows 7

Get the Vista Service Pack 2 Release Candidate Next Week

Microsoft To Start Shipping Windows 7 in September

Google Attacks Microsoft’s Browser Monopoly

Realtime Mobile Video Stitching Is So Crazy It Just Might Work

Berlekamp’s Switch Game May Be Nerdiest Boardgame Ever

SecondLight Gives Surface Tables a Second Magical Screen

“Write in the Air” Could Be Xbox’s Next Trick

Office 14 Won’t Ship in 2009 Says Ballmer

Microsoft’s Interactive Omnidirectional Projector Puts You in the God Seat

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