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Earlier this week our Windows Embedded team launched a new blog that I thought was worth highlighting – not that you don’t have enough to read already and I cover their work regularly here on NEXT , but if you want a deeper dive in to Intelligent Systems , this is the place to go. Kevin...

Following on from my recent video interviews with Kevin Dallas and Jim Buczkowski at IDC’s SMART TECHnology World , this third video is a discussion I had with Ton Steenman from Intel. They have a huge business in intelligent systems, much of which is accompanied by a Windows operating system....

During IDC’s SMART TECHnology World last week I had the chance to chat with Jim Buczkowski, a Henry Ford Technical Fellow at Ford Motor Company. Jim talked about the car as a VERY big consumer electronics device – one that is filed with sensors of all kinds and has become a data hub. We touch...

Last week I stopped by IDC’s SMART TECHnology World in San Francisco and got the chance to sit down and talk with a number of the speakers. First up was a chat with Kevin Dallas, GM for Windows Embedded at Microsoft. It’s an exciting time for his team as the world of intelligent systems is...

I’m at IDC’s SMART TECHnology World today in San Francisco to hear about a world of intelligent systems. I’m personally fascinated by the Internet of Things and it’s interesting to see how many in the industry are now moving beyond that terminology to talk about “ intelligent...

Nope, that's not a spelling mistake in the title. I stumbled across another great example of how the internet of things is taking shape via my good friends at PSFK - they brought my attention to EVRYTHNG , a developer toolkit that lets you endow most any physical object with an “Active Digital...

Intelligent systems — what we used to call embedded technology before we realized the term sort of understates what can happen when you connect customized devices and data — promises to revolutionize a number of industries. In particular, retail, where sales can happen anywhere on the...

The land of gadgets and tech awaits next week – I’m heading to the 2012 International CES in Las Vegas . I travel partly with trepidation at what I know is going to be a crazy busy week and partly with excitement that I have some fun stuff to show this year in the Microsoft booth. More on...

Microsoft Tag has been quietly growing it’s footprint of users – as I made my way through my backlog of magazines this weekend, I noticed more and more brands with a Microsoft Tag . In fact since 2010, 187 million magazine issues have had Tags printed in them. I still see plenty of ads still...

I recently posted a video interview with Dr. Abel Sanchez where we talked about intelligent systems . In this second video I chat with Mario Morales, IDC's vice president of semiconductors and emerging markets research, and get his definition of Intelligent Systems and what the impact on business and...

A few weeks ago I had the chance to sit down for a chat with Dr. Abel Sanchez , Executive Director at MIT’s Geospatial Data Center, to talk about the Internet of Things and its impact on the emergence of intelligent systems . We met at the recent Windows Embedded Executive Summit here in Seattle...

Earlier this week I talked about the increasing amount of technology in sports – our worlds are being augmented with digital sensors across the board. The latest two objects I noticed that are taking advantage of this are chairs and tables. Specifically, Steelcase are adding QR codes to the...

I’ve spent the last two days holed up in the Westin Hotel in Bellevue, Wash., – no, I’m not turning in to a recluse or making a rush on the mayorship , I was there as a guest of our Windows Embedded team who held an executive summit and it was a fascinating two days. In recent months...

I’ve talked about the Internet of Things several times here on Next at Microsoft, noting that more and more of the objects in our lives are becoming connected to the Internet and becoming “intelligent”. This intelligence will bring with it a number of things – technology that...

Anyone who’s spent much time on this site knows that the Internet of Things is one of my favorite topics. I suppose it’s because it speaks to how we can use technology to redefine what’s possible. And while a lot of the talk has been pretty general, a few people here are working on...

Our world is getting more connected and this infographic from Cisco neatly describes some of the benefits. How about your alarm clock resetting itself to wake you up 5 minutes later when a meeting gets delayed and signaling your car to start de-icing itself at the right moment. Microsoft’s Embedded...

Last week I profiled Sheridan Martin Small – an amazing creative mind within our Xbox incubation group. In doing so, I mentioned a project called The Printing Dress – a collaboration between Sheridan and Asta Roseway of Microsoft Research. The video above, courtesy of Electricfoxy , does...

And to wrap up “things” week, let’s think about the things that affect your health. No, not that second donut, but the devices that help you monitor and safeguard your health and keep track of your medical history. Such as your phone. If you get injured and have to go to the ER,...

It looks like I wasn’t the only person who had the explosion of connected devices on their mind yesterday : Craig Mundie gave a talk at the Pacific Health Summit that touched on what the massive growth in connected devices may mean for healthcare - Todd Bishop was there to watch and posted his...

As I’ve been researching posts for this week of “things” on Next, I’ve stumbled across lots of data – these connected things create massive amounts of data themselves and there are already a lot of them. A recent report from Cisco showed that sometime around 2008/2009, our...

Whenever talk turns to the internet of things, the home of the future is one of the first examples to come up. We could probably each think of at least a half-a-dozen ideas of how to make our homes more comfortable with technology. For better or worse, one of the first to see the light of day was the...

I’ll confess I’m smitten by this whole notion of “ The Internet of Things ” – it’s a bit like the promised land of web services, sensors networks and cloud computing all wrapped in to one. Last week I gave a presentation to a group of visiting tech bods from Europe...