Touch computing is all the rage but the pen isn't going away. This latest video from MSR shows the potential for combining pen and touch - Larry Larsen continues his tour around Building 99 here on Redmond Campus and hooks up with Michel Pahud to give us a glimpse of what you can do when you combine pen and touch. 

I love the idea of a clickable world and it's starting to take hold with augmented reality, Google Goggles, FourSqaure and ton of other new apps. Microsoft Tag is quietly participating in this shift too...albeit not so quietly this week as P-Diddy launched his 12 Days of Tag site and got in on the act. 

The latest is one from our Kinect team and it has surprisingly few views on the Xbox channel on YouTube. It may be because this video is masquerading as an ad but beyond the first 180 seconds or so is where the interesting stuff lies.

It’s time for a phone to save us from our phone. Hit the video to see the latest iteration of the REALLY adverts in the Windows Phone 7 series - this one from the airport and showing the voice based search capability. NUI NUI NUI!

Long Zheng spotted this video a while back and it’s now officially released it seems – my buddy Brandon posted about it over on the Windows team blog last week. He has all the details there but the basic story is the Windows team documented the creation of a new song my indie artist Andrew Belle