Some rather interesting stuff came out of Microsoft today – another FUSE lab project and a product having it’s beta tag removed as it goes live to the public.
Microsoft:
- A $150 Project Natal Wouldn’t Be So Terrible – Technologizer
Edge probably sunk some hearts today by reporting a rumor that Microsoft’s motion-sensing Xbox 360 camera, codenamed Project Natal, will cost $150. - Microsoft’s FUSE Labs unveils Emporia (alpha) – Steve Clayton
Ralf Herbrich of FUSE Labs in the UK just unveiled a new project that indexes and provides “lenses” on to Twitter here at the Thinking Digital conference in Gateshead. Project Emporia is available to play with now in Alpha form (i.e. early code) and allows you to browse and vote on information flowing through the Twitter ‘stream’ with your own lens to and tune it for content of interest to you – you can do this with or without a Twitter account. - Is Silverlight for iPhone finally on its way? – Mary Jo Foley
Developers are abuzz over a Wall Street analyst’s claim that Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer may make an appearance at the upcoming Apple World Wide Developers Conference in early June.
* rumor later debunked - Microsoft To Whack Apple With Cheap Zune Music? – The Next Web
Microsoft, in a move to bolster the sales and prestige of the Zune brand may dramatically cut the price of music that the service offers. As it stands Microsoft offers the ‘Zune Pass’ for $14.99 a month, a price point that is possibly too high. - Microsoft tag out of beta – Steve Clayton
tag has been around for a while now and is a funky way of making a lot of information available via small, digital tags applied to any object. You point your mobile device at the tag, snap a photo and the tag application fetches you more information. Behind the scenes there is a reporting and analytics tool you can access to see how your tag campaign is going.
Windows:
- The Windows era is over – Joe Wilcox
About five years ago, when blogging as an analyst, I asserted that computing and informational relevance had started shifting from the Windows desktop to cloud services delivered anytime, anywhere and on anything. The day of Windows’ reckoning is come: 2010 will mark dramatic shifts away from Microsoft’s monopoly to something else. Change is inevitable, and like IBM in the 1980s, Microsoft can’t hold back its destiny during this decade. The Windows era is over.
Windows Phone 7:
- Getting Your Windows Phone 7 Apps On The Marketplace – manan
Microsoft is working on revamping their mobile apps marketplace for Windows Phone 7. There are significant changes coming in and the marketplace will be a lot more like the iTunes App Store Zune Marketplace.
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