Hardware

Roger Gulrajani from the Windows Hardware Ecosystem group shows us a Qualcomm Snapdragon reference device that uses an ARM processor. This is another example of the types of machines that will be running Windows 8.

IntroductionIn early January, we were tasked with creating a unique, interactive experience for the SXSW Interactive launch party with Frog Design. We bounced around many ideas, and finally settled on a project that Rick suggested during our first meeting: boxing robots controlled via Kinect. The…

In this video, Microsoft CVP Steve Guggenheimer introduces the new hardware devices that will be offering Windows Phone 7. There's tactile keyboards, slide out speakers, surround sound, enhanced cameras, scratch resistance screens, and more. Check out the phones from Dell, LG, HTC & Samsung.…

Reading data off of mechanical hard disks is an expensive operation since it is, well, a mechanical process that involves a very large number of seeks to gather data into a useful (contiguous) form. Here, we meet Architect Ruston Panabaker who is on a team of talented…

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…

Back in December, I talked to Dan Rosenfeld about the capacitive version of the Mouse 2.0 project (we also went by the Fab Lab where mice are born). Hrvoje Benko is a researcher in the Adaptive Systems and Interaction group at Microsoft Research and is also working on the project. I…

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…

WEI Share ("We Share") is a Coding4Fun code sample that takes your Windows Experience Index score and shares it with the world (anonymously) to an Azure website with a Silverlight front end and lets you post your WEI score to Facebook for bragging rights. Why would you…

Over the past few months you've seen several interviews with members of Microsoft's Parallel Computing Platform team and we've learned about tooling advances, managed support for parallelism (Parallel Extensions for .NET), and native support for parallelism (the Concurrency Runtime). Here,…

Ben the PC Guy walked us through some of the coolest PC's in the Microsoft booth. There are so many to choose from with such different features, from high end laptops built for gaming or video editing to the incredible cut lines of the Samsung 9 Series to the futuristic dual-screened Acer…