Influx

Microsoft’s Kinect has been massively successful, originally built as a reactive response to Nintendo’s Wii, it’s a technology that’s been hacked, played with and manipulated way beyond its original intent. Microsoft has no idea of its potential, but when hackers played,...

Microsoft has put together a fascinating video that imagines our new mobile future. It’s a future where we connect to intelligent touch screens of all sizes. It suggests a world where data flows seamlessly and where there’s enough intelligence and power built into these devices help us...

Microsoft has been a tough place to be in recent years, but here's an interesting example of a design team looking outside their category to find relevant inspiration and surely a lesson for everyone to escape from their familiar comfort zone. "A couple years ago the Windows Phone design team...

Exciting and euphoric are not two words I would use to describe for Microsoft. The fact that this clearly staged euphoria was manufactured for public consumption, note the presence of TV cameras, is a sign that Microsoft means business. I guess If you can't beat them you have no choice, but to join...

The Redmond giant seems to have Google firmly in its sights as it looks at developing its business over the next few years. It's Bing search engine seems to have done something none of Google's rivals have managed to do and appears to have traction. It will be interesting to see if it can maintain...

Given the cult of cool around Apple's leader Steve Jobs, it might have been safe to presume that he is leading the search war with bitter rival Bill Gates of Microsoft.According to Google that doesn't appear to be the case and despite Apple continuing to grab the headlines, Microsoft's Gates is a...

The news of Microsoft’s new vintage made its way onto the pages of the Financial Times, not a new operating system, but some wine it had ordered from a South African winery. Although it sounds as if the Redmond giant is diversifying into arenas, it knows nothing about; instead, the branded...

Nokia and Microsoft now have armies of anthroplogists scouring the globe for insight into how people communicate and use technology. "As an ethnographer for Microsoft, Donna Flynn uses her training as a Ph.D. in archeology to analyze how ordinary folks from London to Beijing make daily use of...

This week at the Where 2.0 conference we witnessed an exciting aspect of the near-future Internet.  For the last couple of years the focus has been on ‘what’, as in what is something associated with and what kinds of meta data can be used to make that content indexable and...

We are fast moving into a world where "touch" becomes the "way" we control our devices and our computers. Much like Tom Cruise in the movie, The Minority Report, we will use our hands and fingers to manipulate data, just like this video shows.Apple's iPhone is going to be the first mass...