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MIX08 Schedule Management Application from Thirteen23

Sun, 02 Mar 2008 04:03:25 GMT

For the second year in a row Thirteen23 has put together a very compelling Vista application
for managing your MIX08 conference schedule.

Take advantage of their creative schedule management alternative by downloading it here. Additionally, they have created a companion application called Continuum which integrates MSN Messenger into the sidebar. Both applications take advantage of the Aero glass look of Vista in a most pleasing manner.

T-1 week until MIX08 registration opens at 4:00 PM Pacific Time (UTC/GMT -8 hours) at the Venetian Hotel in Las Vegas.

Taimur Asad (The Microsoft "Wow" Blog!)

Microsoft To Announce WorldWide Telescope On February 27

Thu, 21 Feb 2008 00:32:10 GMT

A source close to Microsoft says the company will launch new desktop software called WorldWide Telescope on February 27 at the TED Conference in Monterey, California. Our guess is that this is what Robert Scoble was talking about last week when he said he saw a new Microsoft project that brought him to tears.

The service will be accessed through a downloadable application - Windows only for now is what we hear. Users will be able to pan around the nighttime sky and zoom as far in to any one area as the data will allow. Microsoft is said to be tapping the Hubble telescope as well as ten or so earth bound telescopes around the world for data. When you find an area you like, you can switch to a number of different views, such as infrared and non-visible light.

Dan Farber posted his own educated guess that the project might be WorldWide Telescope, based on the fact that Curtis Wong and Jonathan Fay were involved, and he’s right. Last year Fay gave a presentation called “”The WorldWide Telescope, bringing the Universe to a PC near you.” In 1993, Wong started a project called “John Dobson’s Universe,” a virtual sky tour on a CD-ROM, narrated by John Dobson. The two began working together at Microsoft in 2005.

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Taimur Asad (The Microsoft "Wow" Blog!)

Virtual PC 2007 is now available

Wed, 21 Feb 2007 20:11:09 GMT

Microsoft has released Virtual PC 2007 final version. Microsoft Virtual PC is a free virtualization tool for Microsoft Windows operating systems.

"Whether Microsoft virtualization technology is an important component of your existing infrastructure or you're just a Virtual PC enthusiast, you can now download Virtual PC 2007 absolutely free."

Virtual PC 2007 runs on: Windows XP Professional, Windows XP Tablet PC, Windows Server 2003, Windows Vista Business, Windows Vista Enterprise, and Windows Vista Ultimate.

Official Website of Microsoft Virtual PC 2007

Download Links:
32-Bit Version (x86)
64-Bit Version (x64)

Taimur Asad (The Microsoft "Wow" Blog!)

Xbox 360 Laptop - Creativity at its best!

Sun, 18 Feb 2007 22:27:21 GMT

I came over this very interesting site on which a guy has turned different techy stuff into amazing things. One thing which caught my immediate attention was a Xbox 360 Laptop. Yes the guy actually transformed a Xbox 360 into a portable system so that you can play with it on the go, now thats amazing!

This is a must read:

"A friend of mine asked back in May "Can you build an Xbox 360 laptop?" And I responded "Sure, can you pay for it?" He agreed, and thus I set forth on what was surely to be my most complex and insanely ridiculous videogame project yet. (I say videogame project as I highly doubt I'll ever manage anything as complex as Port Washington again, though at times this project sucked my will to live about as much).
With my first batch of "venture capital" in hand I ran off to the nearby store to get myself an Xbox 360 Super ..... "
read more here

Taimur Asad (The Microsoft "Wow" Blog!)