Feb 27th, Microsoft Will SHOCK The Tech World! Can You Guess Why? | The Coffeehouse

a !
http://search-engines-web.com/

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http://scobleizer.com/2008/02/14/microsoft-researchers-make-me-cry/

http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/02/14/whats-microsoft-offering-open-source-on-february-27/

http://www.istartedsomething.com/20080215/scoble-big-secret-coincide-microsoft-open-source-hero/

YearOfTheLinuxDesktop
Seven of Niner! Resistance is Futile!

a secret insider told me MS is going to release NIBBLES.BAS, GORILLA.BAS and MONEY.BAS under the GPL3 license. cool!

eblonk
(under revision)

YearOfTheLinuxDesktop wrote:
GORILLA.BAS

I played that more than I care to admit..........

stevo_
Human after all

Oh, drama.. I'm prepared for it being perhaps being good.. but good like say.. generics was good, i.e., wow cool, but not something my dads gonna freak out about..

Ray6

a ! wrote:

http://scobleizer.com/2008/02/14/microsoft-researchers-make-me-cry/

http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/02/14/whats-microsoft-offering-open-source-on-february-27/

http://www.istartedsomething.com/20080215/scoble-big-secret-coincide-microsoft-open-source-hero/

Well Microsoft already brought us the $15,000 coffee table, so I'm going to guess that we're looking at a $100,000 stair lift ....

The point is that this is a Microsoft Research Project, which means it will stay locked away in a Redmond bunker until Apple releases their own version prefixed with the letter 'i' ... and that's when Scoble will get REALLY excited.

blowdart
Peek-a-boo

You know I despair at the naivety of teams that show scoble anything. That isn't good marketing, that's an egocentric annoyance because it says "I know something you don't know".

JChung2006

Curtis Wong and Jonathan Fay are in Microsoft Research's Next Media group.

C9 did a video with them a couple years ago (before Vista). Maybe the stuff they were working on back then is about to make it to market, like in the Windows 7 timeframe, perhaps with some sort of touch-enabled or Surface-enabled spin?

irascian
Irascible Ian

JChung2006 wrote:

Curtis Wong and Jonathan Fay are in Microsoft Research's Next Media group.

C9 did a video with them a couple years ago (before Vista). Maybe the stuff they were working on back then is about to make it to market, like in the Windows 7 timeframe, perhaps with some sort of touch-enabled or Surface-enabled spin?

There was a new beta of Expression Media Browser released last week. Or is that something completely different?

CannotResolveSymbol
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Judging by past experience, since Scoble's excited about it, it will be a complete flop.

littleguru
<3 Seattle

CannotResolveSymbol wrote:
Judging by past experience, since Scoble's excited about it, it will be a complete flop.

blowdart
Peek-a-boo

irascian wrote:

JChung2006 wrote:
Curtis Wong and Jonathan Fay are in Microsoft Research's Next Media group.

C9 did a video with them a couple years ago (before Vista). Maybe the stuff they were working on back then is about to make it to market, like in the Windows 7 timeframe, perhaps with some sort of touch-enabled or Surface-enabled spin?

There was a new beta of Expression Media Browser released last week. Or is that something completely different?

Expression Media annoys me. Because it *requires* Quicktime. And that is not going on my machine. So; no expression media then

Ray6

blowdart wrote:

Expression Media annoys me. Because it *requires* Quicktime.

Er ... what?

Really?

Jeez

:rollseyes:

Richard.Hein
... my guitar gently weeps ...

Scoble let a little bit slip I think, when he says, "Down the hall from Wong and Fay was researcher Andy Wilson. When I walked into his lab he was working on another cool surface computing technology ...".

Based on the "another", I'm guessing it's a surface application.

stevo_
Human after all

Richard.Hein wrote:
Scoble let a little bit slip I think, when he says, "Down the hall from Wong and Fay was researcher Andy Wilson. When I walked into his lab he was working on another cool surface computing technology ...".

Based on the "another", I'm guessing it's a surface application.

Nah, the key was another surface computing technology as in.. like surface.. but not..

Also, he was shown on the screen, so unless they were showing him a video of a another another surface technology..

Personally I don't know what to think.. I can't think of anything that Microsoft would be working on that would shock the tech world, yet not go against their 'shhhhhhh' ruling.. but perhaps the shh is regarding talking about something before its done vs showing something before its released..

Richard.Hein
... my guitar gently weeps ...

stevo_ wrote:

Richard.Hein wrote: Scoble let a little bit slip I think, when he says, "Down the hall from Wong and Fay was researcher Andy Wilson. When I walked into his lab he was working on another cool surface computing technology ...".

Based on the "another", I'm guessing it's a surface application.

Nah, the key was another surface computing technology as in.. like surface.. but not..

Also, he was shown on the screen, so unless they were showing him a video of a another another surface technology..

Personally I don't know what to think.. I can't think of anything that Microsoft would be working on that would shock the tech world, yet not go against their 'shhhhhhh' ruling.. but perhaps the shh is regarding talking about something before its done vs showing something before its released..

Well, it's a software application, not hardware, that much was clear, and I think "computing technology" can mean either software or hardware. I will say that "... he was working on another ..." could just refer to Andy - meaning Andy is working on something else other than Surface.

Dovella
Go Microsoft !!!!!!!

WELLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I Love my Microsoft : D

Vasudev

Yes everybody is eager to know what it is ?

Here are some more of such links . Any guesss , could these be ???
Its just a Wild guess , Maynot have to do anything with MS Research .

Marc Mercuri says :
"In town for TechReady6? Sneak peak of my new project this afternoon.

My new project, currently underwraps, will make a brief appearance today in one of the TechReady sessions. If you're a MS employee, swing by and check it out.

The details..

Session Code: ARC325

Time: 3pm – 4:15pm

Location: WSCTC 3AB

================================

Angus Logan says :

"It is really bad form to blog about stuff which isn't released yet (and has 0 disclosure yet) but...

There is a really exciting API we will be releasing sometime in the near future... the API enables some great scenarios.

A couple of Microsoft partners have built killer applications using this unreleased API as part of our early adoption program - I'm so excited!"

Any leads from these links ? Any guesses? Or are they wrong leads ?

Xaero_Vincent
Sexy me

When I saw the "Forge" part immediately thought of SourceForge. But Microsoft already has their answer to that with CodePlex.

Hmm...

How about an open-source (not shared-source) .NET framework thats under a license compatable with the Mono project?

That way code sharing can begin...

Bas
It finds lightbulbs.

A new framework or some open source release doesn't sound very earth-shattering to me. I'm at least expecting something along the lines of WHS.

Oh, anticipation.

harumscarum
out of memory

Segway.net live

ScanIAm
On a scale of 1 to 10, people are stupid.

Ray6 wrote:

blowdart wrote:
Expression Media annoys me. Because it *requires* Quicktime.

Er ... what?

Really?

Jeez

:rollseyes:

Seriously. For 100% real.

Quicktime will never, ever touch my computer, either.

I've actually not seen the Indiana Jones preview because it's in, you guessed it, Quicktime.

Of all the garbage media programs out there, quicktime is the worst.

Cybermagellan
Live for nothing, or die for everything

He also said it's something that would change his sons life....

Considering Scobles facination with social media, Microsoft Research, the "Heros Happen Here" events, Home Server and the Media Teams...I'm kinda hoping a Webpage based Video conferencing service based on Silverlight...

ScanIAm
On a scale of 1 to 10, people are stupid.

Cybermagellan wrote:
He also said it's something that would change his sons life....

Considering Scobles facination with social media, Microsoft Research, the "Heros Happen Here" events, Home Server and the Media Teams...I'm kinda hoping a Webpage based Video conferencing service based on Silverlight...

Or maybe they've invented a fembot with surface tech....

It sure would have changed my young life Smiley

Cybermagellan
Live for nothing, or die for everything

ScanIAm wrote:

Cybermagellan wrote:He also said it's something that would change his sons life....

Considering Scobles facination with social media, Microsoft Research, the "Heros Happen Here" events, Home Server and the Media Teams...I'm kinda hoping a Webpage based Video conferencing service based on Silverlight...

Or maybe they've invented a fembot with surface tech....

It sure would have changed my young life

I would have never had to posted a thread about my Apple TV getting stolen, that's for sure.

Isshou

Cybermagellan wrote:

I would have never had to posted a thread about my Apple TV getting stolen, that's for sure.

Nah, then you'd be posting out your fembot cheating on you with the Apple TV...

On topic, This announcement coincides with the Heroes Happen Here Los Angelas event (the kicker for all of the HHH events). So what do you think it may have to do with HHH releases or is it just a convenient time (and place?) to make the announcement/preview?