Sunday, 7 March 2010

Microsoft is not all bad

As much as I hate to admit it, the guys at Microsoft really do some pretty cool stuff. A couple that have caught my eye recently:

Xbox - project Natal
This is going to be transformational like the Wii



Pivot from Live Labs
This is the kind of data visualisation tool that I love - you can just feel what this is going to mean for managing and traversing large chunks of data and information (think Jonathon Harris' universe - see also previous entry). It build on the wonderful seadragon technology (not that I really understand what that is, but it allows you to zoom in and out of pictures really quickly and I like that - see also this link for great examples).

Bill and Ballmer are not all bad.


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