Skype have written a blog post explaining how their Skype Translator works which is currently available as a preview-release for the Spanish language. The blog includes a short Behind the …
Fitt’s law and the new Office 2007 interface
I came across a really interesting blog post by Jensen Harris, on Fitt’s law and new Microsoft Office “Ribbon” user interface. Fitts’ law is a model of human movement, predicting …
MapCruncher: Interactive Web Maps Come to Life
MapCruncher – a prototype technology from Microsoft Research that makes it easy for users to create their own, personalized mash-ups – may revolutionize the way people use online maps. An …
Typography Outline and Shape affects word recognition
This Microsoft paper within their Typography and Cleartype section titled, The science of word recognition, comments on evidence within cognitive psychology that indicates we use the letters within words to …
Bill Gates challenges Researchers to define the future of software computing
A copy of the Bill Gates speech from the Microsoft Research Faculty Summit 2004 in Redmond, Washington on August 2, 2004. His speech challenged academic researchers from around the world …
An intro review of Windows Media Centre Edition
Anandtech have posted a really interesting and thorough introduction to the new set-top Personal Video Recorders (PVR). In particular the review, looks at Microsoft’s XP Media Center Edition (MCE), hardware …
Maya’s Methods when evaluating Interfaces
Whilst reading this blog post by Peter Merholz, which commented on the ACM Interactions article by Microsoft’s Dennis Wixon, Evaluating usability methods: Why the current literature fails the practitioner (which …
Extended Drag & Drop fuctionality in Internet Explorer 5.0
Nicholas C. Zakas writes an interesting article in Web Reference on some of the extended drag and drop “events” built in functionality & behaviour of Internet Explorer version 5.0. Images …
Microsoft SQL Server 2000 Resource Kit
Microsoft recently released the Microsoft SQL Server 2000 Resource Kit which includes some useful tools, book, samples and utilities. The resource kit is available separately, but so far isn’t included …
Microsoft XBox release date approaches
A look at the face that is the Microsoft XBox, as its release date approaches www.zdnet.com.au/biztech/enterprise/story
Microsoft Smart Tags
Microsoft’s plans to include Smart Tags in official releases of XP and IE6, have been stalled. Smart tags are a way to recognizes certain words or types of data and …
America Online and Microsoft Discussions
America Online and Microsoft are in preliminary discussions to revise their long-standing partnership agreement, a move that could see renewed cooperation between the technology giants after a period of apparent …
Microsoft DirectX examples of Dancing Trapezoids
Peter forwarded this link to Microsoft DirectX’s examples of Dancing Trapezoids
Properties of IE5.5 and IE6.0 Beta
Some samples of effects used in properties of IE5.5 and IE6.0 Beta msdn.microsoft.com/downloads/c-frame.htm?/downloads/samples/internet/default.asp