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Microsoft’s Vision for the Future Videos

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These visionary videos from Microsoft remind me of A Day Made of Glass: Corning’s Vision of the Future of Display Technology. Watch how future technology will help people make better use of their time, focus their attention, and strengthen relationships while getting things done at work, home, and on the go. (Release: 2011)   Microsoft’s long-term productivity vision explores how we will create and share content; collaborate across teams, organizations and networks; and how we will gain contextually relevant and anticipative insights based on preferences and intent. All these scenarios are showcasing real, emerging technologies explored with various Microsoft product and research teams as well as at Microsoft partners and across the industry.   The Microsoft Home Yes indeed the future look amazing. The only question is how much of it will run on Microsoft Windows? iOS or Android anyone? [...]

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Software Wars: The Terminator Picks Windows

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Ever hear about the raging software wars? There is a war out there. When it comes to software it is a dog eat dog world. Large scale conflict between different operating systems or manufacturers thereof has been a constant part of the technological landscape of the past 30 years. Moreover, in the last decade the conflict has steadily been broadening from the traditional PC vs Mac to one including more and more participants, each more eager than the next one to raid your pockets for any software dollars. There are many ways to slice the Software Wars but some of the most obvious ones must be: Windows vs Mac OS vs Linux vs Andoroid Apple (and recently Microsoft) vs. Adobe‘s Flash Player Yahoo vs Bing vs Google Symbian vs Mac vs Backberry vs Palm vs Android Paid vs Free Proprietery [...]

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