Microsoft Surface – a Fixture in the Nashville Office

bryanhuddleston — Tue, 21 Oct 2008 05:04:26 GMT

Today I had the privilege to work with our own Microsoft Surface for over an hour. Yes it was cool. Yes it was ‘playing’. But at the same time, from a software and development platform, the possibilities are extensive for customers in almost any industry.

The device comes to us by way of InterKnowlogy. They have developed applications for Surface.

One of the application on the Surface in the office is one for a doctor’s office. A card with a chip identifies who the physician is and brings up the patients seeing for the day.

Once chosen, the application ties back into HealthVault to bring up the pictures of the heart scan taken. An actual picture of the heart, there are three types, is brought up.

The doctor can then turn and move the heart, place stints, remove arteries, draw arteries all from the Surface.

The picture to the right shows me working with the surface and the HealthVault application.

The application is viewable vie an application online or you can also come by the office for a full demo.

There are other apps on the device like the one that CNN uses for the political campaigns and another one for mapping.

Resources at IT Showcase

bryanhuddleston — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 06:38:02 GMT

There are no lack of information on solutions from Microsoft. Sometimes is just good to get the “How did you do that” information. Well, Microsoft’s own internal IT publishes papers as part of their deployment and evaluation of Microsoft products.

Showcase IT can be found at http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb687780.aspx. Some of the more valuable content can be consumed at one of the IT Workshops. They also have Webcasts and media.

A couple of the upcoming session that customers requested last week are:

How Microsoft does IT: Structured Active Directory Schema Management at Microsoft Tuesday, July 15, 2008

Deploying Forefront Client Security at Microsoft - Technical White Paper | Presentation | TechNet Radio Podcast

Identifying Server Candidates for Virtualization - Technical Case Study

How Microsoft IT Uses the Exchange Hosted Services to Protect the Messaging Environment

MTK Blog : Business Value

Microsoft Surface – a Fixture in the Nashville Office

Resources at IT Showcase