Emerging Technologies

...in development at Microsoft

This page only references technologies and projects that have been publicly announced

Cloud Computing

Microsoft is building data centers galore to support the shift to Software + Services. Nicholas Carr is keeping track: Microsoft extends data center buildout to Siberia (Nov 07)

Microsoft Sync Framework

Synchronisation platform enabling collaboration and offline for applications, services and devices (published on MSDN).

Comment - being superseded by Live Mesh. To be updated...

Microsoft Tafiti

An experimental search front-end, gathers different types of results (e.g. web sites, images, books) that you can store on your 'shelf' and share. Tafiti is Silverlight-dependent (i.e. you'll need to download it to run - 1.4Mb)

PopFly

Mashups are breaking the mold at Microsoft - NYT article (Feb 2008) about the PopFly team

Photosynth

Creating three-dimensional spaces by stitching together similar photos (from MS Live Labs). For a great demonstration, view the TED Talk - Jaw-dropping Photosynth Demo

Virtual Earth

Maps and geographical information available online, including web services (think MapPoint) for integration in applications. Microsoft Team Blog on Live Spaces

 

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