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Worldwide Telescope released

Posted Tuesday, May 13, 2008 8:18 AM by James Senior
Great news today that the Worldwide Telescope project is now unveiled and you can download the software yourself and explore amazing scenes in space.  It's based on some of the best telescopic imagery on the planet and provides a rich way of navigating Read More...
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Grand Canyon and Deep Zoom

Posted Monday, March 10, 2008 10:36 PM by James Senior
One of the technologies announced at Mix 08 this year was Deep Zoom as part of Silverlight 2.  It allows you to zoom into incredible amounts of detail in high resolution photos and cleverly only brings back the amount of data you need based on your Read More...
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WorldWide Telescope Video

Posted Thursday, February 28, 2008 11:52 AM by James Senior
I'm off tomorrow to California for a few weeks of holiday and also off to Mix 08 in Vegas next week.  If you're in the Bay area or the valley and want to meet up for a coffee then drop me a note at james@microsoft.com . I'll be checking in with the Read More...
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Britain gets the Photosynth treatment thanks to the BBC

Posted Tuesday, June 05, 2007 7:44 AM by James Senior
The BBC have been working with the Live Labs team to bring five famous British landmarks into the Photosynth world and to you at home. If the word Photosynth is unfamiliar to you then I would recommend watching it's creator demoing it at the recent TED Read More...
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Yes Microsoft!!! You finally get it! Now change the rest of it.

Posted Wednesday, May 30, 2007 9:16 AM by James Senior
They are finally understanding it! Another excellent name and another cool brand - Microsoft Surface . I can hardly contain myself - someone in marketing actually is changing Microsoft bit by bit. Could this be another trait of Ozziesoft - cool product Read More...
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Certified for Windows Vista - networking demo

Posted Thursday, May 24, 2007 9:24 AM by James Senior
Configuring a wireless router or modem can sometimes be a little tricky for the average user, so one of the certifications for Vista aimed to take away the pain when setting up your home network and this video from Ben Reed on the Vista Team blog . Ben Read More...
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Rendering XPS in Silverlight

Posted Wednesday, May 23, 2007 2:50 PM by James Senior
A partner I know is currently looking to render XPS and now a very clever chap inside Microsoft ( via Mike Taulty ) has been playing around with doing it in Silverlight . The app is very cool and has nice controls to boot. Bear in mind it's just a proof Read More...
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HD Panoramic Photo Viewer from MS Research

Posted Tuesday, May 22, 2007 4:34 PM by James Senior
Wow the innovation keeps on happening ( back story to lack of MS Innovation)... today via the Virtual Earth blog I found a rather cool video which shows off the work of the MS Research team that are doing stuff with HD Photos that size up to 4 Gigapixels Read More...
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Popfly

Posted Friday, May 18, 2007 5:33 PM by James Senior
Shall I file that under innovation ( back story )? Yes I think I will. Technorati tags: Microsoft Innovation , Silverlight , Popfly Read More...
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Vista news from WinHec

Posted Thursday, May 17, 2007 10:49 AM by James Senior
WinHec - the event where hardware meets software - has recently been live and there have been some interesting announcements come out of the conference, in particular about Windows Vista SideShow. If you're not familiar with SideShow then take a look Read More...
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Next Purchase: Windows Vista SideShow Fridge Magnet

Posted Wednesday, May 16, 2007 11:43 AM by James Senior
Yes you read it right... one of the things that emerged at WinHec was a Wireless Fridge Magnet which leverages the Windows Vista SideShow platform (back story about Vista After Hours) that can stream content from your Vista PC to the device. Cool (no Read More...
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