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This is a guest post by Kevin Schofield, General Manager, Microsoft Research One of the more interesting – and sometimes surreal – parts of my job in Microsoft Research (MSR) is when Hollywood comes calling. The constant flow of science fiction movies and TV shows requires them not...

Last Friday, Microsoft in partnership with the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) and TIME , presented the “Creativity Conference” – a one-of-a-kind event convening leaders from the world of politics, media, business and the arts to engage in a direct dialogue on the role...

Last week I had the pleasure of hosting another “ Underground Tour ” of Microsoft. That’s the unofficial name for a tour our team has been hosting for the last few years where we take reporters behind the scenes of our campus and show them places that even Microsoft employees rarely...

  Albert Shum is one of my favorite people to chat with at Microsoft – always engaging, always has a smile and insightful about the role of technology in our lives. In this recent talk at the IxDA conference, Interaction13, Albert shares his thoughts about the world of technology...

  Our recruitment team recently launched a new site - Right Now at Microsoft . I’m a fan of the site already as it showcases the work and the people at Microsoft and how has a little “change the world” spirit about it. The opening video (above...

Mobile World Congress is here and if you’re attending with a Windows Phone 8 device, you can grab an NFC version of your conference badge thanks to the NFC Badge app. NFC Badge is the official application for entry to Mobile World Congress and enables delegates to pass through perimeter access...

It’s been a while since I’ve featured the work of FUSE Labs and Lili Cheng here on NEXT so I’m pleased to have Lili bring this guest post to the site that showcases the recent Social Computing Symposium that was held in New York City. - by Lili Cheng Last week we held our ninth...

I spent around 36 hours at CES last week and probably around 6 of that walking the actual show floor, taking notes on OneNote on Windows Phone (and Surface when stationary). What surprised me is I got to see almost everything I wanted in that short space of time and from reading other reports, I only...

This is a guest blog from Ryan Asdourian, Sr. Product Manager for Windows Last week I had a chance to travel down to CES in Las Vegas. It was a bit of a different feel since this is the first year Microsoft hasn’t had a booth. Luckily for me, this meant I had a bit more time to explore what...

In late October and early November, Craig Mundie visited students and faculty at the University of California, Berkeley and the University of Texas at Austin to share his thoughts on the future of computing, as well as to hear the thoughts and ideas of the next generation of technology innovators. ...

Earlier this week I had the chance to moderate a panel of luminaries on the topic of natural user interface at the 2012 Seattle Interactive Conference . The all star lineup included John Gaeta , who developed the "bullet time" effects in The Matrix Trilogy and is the founder of FLOAT Hybrid . ...

Another week on the road beckons and this time I’m headed to New York for Fashion Week . All will become clear later in the week but to tee things up, I thought I’d share one of my “What’s in my bag?” posts. My last one was posted as I left for Toronto to attend Microsoft’s...

If you didn’t attend the Worldwide Partner Conference in Toronto back in July, or catch the live stream, I thought you may enjoy the 30 minutes of demos we did during the day 2 keynote. Jon Roskilll , Corporate VP of our worldwide partner group, and I toured around some of the hottest technology...

During the 30 minute NEXT demos I hosted last week at Worldwide Partner Conference, this was a real crowd pleaser so I thought it was worth sharing stand-alone. David Brown is from the Microsoft Technology Centre in the UK and is the developer of this application – NUIVerse. In this video, David...

This is a new series of posts I’m kicking off today. I often take photographs of unusual or inspiring things I see around Microsoft’s Redmond campus so will be posting one each week to the blog. However, this first photo isn’t from Microsoft HQ, it’s from our Worldwide Partner...

I’ll be busy in Atlanta this week so sadly will miss attending the Microsoft Research Faculty Summit that’s running tomorrow and Tuesday at our Redmond HQ. Fortunately you can follow along at the Virtual Event site where keynotes and other sessions will be streamed. What is Faculty Summit...

While in Toronto this week for WPC, I had the chance to talk with some of our partners about the amazing stuff they’re doing with things such as Windows 8 and the Kinect for Windows SDK . Meanwhile, a group of around 350 students in Sydney were showing off some of the amazing things they’ve...

Next at Microsoft took center stage today at one of Microsoft’s biggest events of the year – the Microsoft Worldwide Partner Conference in beautiful Toronto. I joined Jon Roskill , our Corporate Vice President of Worldwide Partner Group, before 16,000 people at Air Canada Centre to show...

Tami Reller, Microsoft’s corporate vice president and CFO, Windows and Windows Live, showed off an awesome lineup of Windows 8 PCs at Worldwide Partner Conference yesterday. Check back here around 9am for highlights of the Day 2 keynote where Next at Microsoft goes live on stage. If you’re...

It’s early July so that means conference season here at Microsoft. Later today I head to Toronto for the Microsoft Worldwide Partner Conference that runs from July 8th – 12th. Like last year, I’ll be helping to host portions of the keynotes with Jon Roskill – I have a few surprises...

I get to see lots of presentations in my role at Microsoft but few are as compelling as the one that opened the Microsoft Accelerator for Kinect Demo Day today. Jintronix kicked off the 11 presentations from the teams who have been participating in this program in Seattle for the last 13 weeks. They...

The last few weeks have been a blur for me – with travels to Europe and LA and preparation for Worldwide Partner Conference in Toronto (more on that soon). But I’ve been waiting for today for quite some time. Today is the Microsoft Accelerator for Kinect DEMO day here on our main campus in...

If you follow me on Twitter or got my OOF last week you’ll know I was in Cannes, participating in the Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity . It’s a while since I’ve been to Cannes – I used to be a regular attendee when Mobile World Congress was hosted there so I was...

Mel Carson of Microsoft Advertising reporting from the sea captures the essence of what’s been going down in Cannes this week. I’ll have my own thoughts and recap to share on Monday. Tweet

I’m in Cannes this week, camped out at the Microsoft Beach Club where we’re hosting the good and the great of the advertising world who are attending the Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity. I’ve yet to make it over to the Palais to check out the Microsoft Digital Lounge...