Hardware

Meet a large portion of the teams that make the Tablet PC and laptop/notebook features. We have a wide-ranging discussion from how to make battery life better (developers take note!) to new handwriting recognition features coming in Windows Vista.We start out the meeting "is this the team…

Next year there will be a new feature available on some laptops and Tablet PCs: auxiliary displays. This lets you do some things on your computer without needing to open up the computer and wait for it to start up. See what this new feature is. There's more information on the developer opportunity…

When we went over to London for vacation this summer we took our camcorders and got a tour of Microsoft's research center in Cambridge, England.Here's who you'll see:Mitch Goldberg, Senior Programme Manager14:00 Richard Black, Researcher, talks about networking research that will show up in Windows…

What's a Sony PSP doing on Channel 9? Well, Ken was showing us his new game machines and was bragging about how he watches Channel 9 videos on it. Oh, we're a sucker for stuff like that. Check out his Samsung audio player and his Ultimate Ears headphones too! Tell us about the…

The tour of Microsoft Hardware labs continues. Now we check out the scanning lab in this mouse making journey of discovery. Enjoy.

At this point, most of us take the common computer peripherals like mice and keyboards for granted. They're just always there. Ever wonder how one of these things gets made, from start to finish? Well, Scoble was curious so he asked Erik von Fuchs of the Microsoft Hardware Lab to…

Way back when PCs used to be a nightmarish mess of IRQs and IO Ports (remember that?), a few nutty guys in the industry went off and came up with the idea of making a plug-and-play bus. That turned into what is now known as USB. Kosar Jaff, who is now at Microsoft, was one of the developers of the…