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 current view and zoom level. This allows incredibly smooth…
Tag: Cool Technology
WorldWide Telescope Video
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 odd post here and…
The Diskless PC and Vista Enterprise Centralised Desktop
What’s the beef here then? Well in a nutshell Diskless PCs and Vista Enterprise Centralised Desktop open up new methods for IT departments to roll out and manage their desktop estate. These new methods introduce different benefits so allow me to describe the different technologies. The Diskless PC Simply put this is a PC without…
Me and Surface – best buddies
Last week – what a week! I was up and down the country doing events and speaking to customers and partners about a vast range of Microsoft software and solutions. I also turned up at the Royal Lancaster hotel very early to help setup Microsoft Surface for Bill (see my post on his talk) which…
Reading gets Birds Eye View on Virtual Earth and use your Wii remote to control Virtual Earth!
An historic moment happened over Christmas – Reading got Birds Eye View imagery on Virtual Earth! Here’s the Microsoft UK HQ in Reading – looks like a Friday as the car park is quite empty :-) Building 5 (bottom left) is looking all shiny and new – no one has moved in there yet but…
Windows Live PhotoZoom
Via the LiveSide guys, I came across this neat video of software that allows users to zoom smoothly around photos and get more detail in a really rich way. This technology is based upon Silverlight and uses a technology called Seadragon which we first saw in Photosynth. This is going to provide a completely new…
Mix UK Videos Up
Woah been a busy past couple of weeks. Been doing Windows Server 2008 events up and down the country and moved apartment so been up to my eyeballs! Although I didn’t move far it was fairly stressful and I’m now left with a weekend of unpacking. Oh and joy, there was no BT phone line…
Media Center Ultimate Install – winner announced
I mentioned on the blog recently that we were running a competition to find the best installation of Windows Media Center out there and last week we announced the winner of the competition. CEPro has a detailed account of what went into the Media Center installation: "The installation, in Orem, Utah, features 12 distributed audio…
Windows Live Messenger Control and Presence API
Angus has just announced information on his blog about how to incorporate an IM chat window in a website, for example a blog. With this, as a Live Messenger user, you can receive IM’s from people that visit your website which is a great way for people and businesses to get in contact. This won’t…
Resources for Consumer Electronic Installers
At the Vista After Hours events we had lots of questions from companies looking to incorporate Media Centers and Home Servers etc into properties. This is a big growth area for us and as we look to expand our offerings and provide amazing home experiences with the ultimate digital lifestyles we are of course working…