microsoft's vision of the future

[Ishcabittle]

...is very design happy. we'll see.

http://www.istartedsomething.com/20090228/microsoft-office-labs-vision-2019-video/

 

[Conchaga]

Now I gotta go dig up that video of the guy wearing the necklace projector touch(anything) computer. It's pretty cool.

 

[Conchaga]

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[Eggs Mayonnaise]

Whatever is left of the world after 2012, the solar flares coming in 2013 that will knock out most electronics and communications will make things like this less seem less important.

Time to learn how to grow our own food and go back to vinyl records.

 

[Further]

Microsoft certainly does try to shake up Desktop UI design more than most companies. Often times their efforts are met with resistance (eg. the Ribbon of Office 2007, which I think is a good improvement). More often they conjure up all these great ideas and never actually manage to release them in finished products (eg. WinFS, MS Surface, Courier).

 

[The Tomtrek]

I'd give it five minutes before one of the kids drew a cock on the touchscreen wall and it transformed into a giant penis as big as your head spouting semen with the word "PENIS" in multiple languages surrounding it.

 

[Eggs Mayonnaise]

Perez Hilton isn't waiting for the new interface to do that.

 

[Big Dick McGee]

Wake me when they invent those bitchin' computers they have in Quantum of Solace.

 

[Gagh]

Wake me when they invent those bitchin' computers they have in Quantum of Solace.

Or the one from "The Apple" (TOS) that allows no sexy touching or anything.

 

[SAUSAGEMAN]

Microsoft certainly does try to shake up Desktop UI design more than most companies. Often times their efforts are met with resistance (eg. the Ribbon of Office 2007, which I think is a good improvement). More often they conjure up all these great ideas and never actually manage to release them in finished products (eg. WinFS, MS Surface, Courier).

Microsoft's problem isn't that they don't have smart people - it's that whatever ideas and vision those smart people have, they end up getting sliced and diced to death by a thousand middle managers, and they end up with mediocre products. Yay.

 

[Ishcabittle]

not to mention Ballmer is a little out of touch. did y'all see his interview at D8? he really just rambled and rambled, moving from topic to topic without any cohesion.

only zuckerman was a worse speaker, and that kid is 26.