Thoughts from the Sidelines (Free subscription) | 28/11/2009
If you’re a regular reader then you’ll doubtless remember Chris informing you that Family Guy was to be used to publicise Windows 7 but, thanks MS deciding that the resulting content was ‘not a fit for the Windows brand’, Chris subsequently advised us that they had got pulled. But now ...
LagrangePoint - Brad Howarth (Free subscription) | 27/11/2009
The last speaker before the afternoon break was August de los Reyes, principal design director for Microsoft Surface. The technology's first iteration is an interactive table top where users can place physical objects and also move around virtual ones, such...
World Of Technology (Free subscription) | 25/11/2009
Microsoft have now released Surface Software Development Kit (SDK) for all who want it. The download is 144.2MB in size and can be downloaded right now. The SDK comes with no price tag and allows anybody with the skill and interest to create applications for Microsoft Surface computers. If you do not have a surface handy (which probably includes 99.9% of the people who read here) then you can use a...
eCoustics.com (Free subscription) | 22/11/2009
The tabletop computer interface has found some niche uses and continues to mature, Microsoft tells developers.
Public Sector Developer Weblog (Free subscription) | 21/11/2009
NOTE: This was cross posted from here . Robert Levy from the Surface team and Anson Tsao from the WPF team gave a great session on: Multi-Touch on Microsoft Surface and Windows 7 for .NET Developers The session is definitely worth watching if you are interested in building multi-touch apps on Windows 7. In the session, they announced the Surface Toolkit for Windows Touch which is a set of “Controls,...
Lifehacker (Free subscription) | 20/11/2009
Windows: When your computer starts acting hinky and spitting out error messages, it's hard to know exactly where to begin to diagnose the problem. Windows Surface Scanner gives you a place to start. This free utility takes a look at your hard drives and ferrets out any physical errors it finds, so you know what might be causing random crashes or system flakiness. Windows Surface Scanner won't fix...
Thoughts from the Sidelines (Free subscription) | 20/11/2009
Software developers who want to come up with their own software for Microsoft’s touch-based Surface technology can now do so for free, as the Microsoft Surface SDK is now free for all at the Microsoft Download Center. Surface was announced by Microsoft at the D5 conference in 2007, and is aimed ...
Gadget Venue dot com (Free subscription) | 20/11/2009
Microsoft [MSFT] have now released the Microsoft Surface Software Development Kit (SDK) for all who want it. The download is 144.2MB in size and can be downloaded right now. The SDK comes with no price tag and allows anybody with the skill and interest to create applications for Microsoft Surface computers. If you do not have [...] Microsoft Surface SDK Now Available
Computerworld UK (Free subscription) | 20/11/2009
Microsoft's Surface touch computer may be generating more oohs and ahs than some of the company's other recent technologies, but the product has yet to generate rabid interest among programmers.
TechConnect Magazine (Free subscription) | 20/11/2009
At its Professional Developers Conference 2009, Microsoft has officially announced the truly general availability of Surface SDK, the package required by developers to build applications for the multi-touch device . Previously, the SDK was offered for free only to partners and MSDN members but now practically anyone can get the software and start making Surface apps on their PC, but only if it runs...
Arkytek Ltd :: Blog (Free subscription) | 20/11/2009
Having made the dev kit for the Surface available to select partners in June (a tiny bit late), Microsoft has now officially let the software loose for all and sundry to explore, experiment, and hopefully innovate with. Whereas Surface Developer units have been required till now to successfully design and test an app, the SDK [...]
Fast Company (Free subscription) | 20/11/2009
Everyone loves Microsoft interactive table, Surface--just check out our list of killer Surface apps to see why. So it's good news that this week Redmond announced it would be opening up the Surface software developer kit, or SDK, to the public. It will also be freely available through Surface.com . To celebrate the occasion, Microsoft announced the winner of their developer contest , which was an...
Ars Technica (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
At Microsoft's Professional Developers Conference 2009 ( PDC09 ), the Microsoft Surface team announced the broad availability of the Microsoft Surface Software Development Kit (SDK) Workstation Edition. It has actually been available on the Microsoft Download Center (144.2MB) since earlier this month, but only now has it been made official. Developers interested in the Microsoft Surface can now easily...
eWeek (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
Microsoft has seen significant momentum in the adoption of its Surface computer system and software over the past year. In addition, the company released a software development kit for developers to use on their PCs to simulate the Surface environment. - LOS ANGELES -- Microsoft has seen significant momentum in the adoption of its Surface computer system and software over the past year. Brad Carpenter,...
The Register (Free subscription) | 18/11/2009
Computational fiddling A trial set of controls to build touch-based applications with input from different users on Microsoft's Surface have been released by interface specialist Infragistics.…
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