Tuesday, September 13, 2005 - Posts

Microsoft Gadget

Welcome to the Gadgets Blog!

Have you ever wondered how new technologies get developed in Microsoft? Wonder how a cool idea goes from incubation to release? Well, we’re excited to announce that we’ve started a blog designed to bring you closer to the process with the Gadgets blog and we’re kicking it off at the PDC .

What are Gadgets? Gadgets are a new category of mini-application designed to provide information, useful lookup, or enhance an application or service on your Windows PC or the Web. Examples might include a weather gadget running on your desktop or on your homepage, an RSS Gadget that pulls in your favorite feeds, or an extension of a business application providing just-in-time status on the pulse of your business.

Where is Mike Hall ?  Mike is the human voice of Microsoft Windows CE and Windows Embedded.

ZDnet recently started a Gadget blog too, but I think they all will discover that Engiget and Gizsmac have been manufacturing their links, comments and ad clicks, oh my!

Gadgets are the ripened fruit of the technology cycle, inspiration, innovation, research, building and testing is the adventure.

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New UI

The first look at Office 12 is amazing, a new UI with XML connecting people to information everywhere.

Wanta see for yourself? Here are some screenshots from the PDC :

Word     PowerPoint     Excel      Access

Office 12 UI video on Channel9

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Windows ScreenShots

PDC: Sneak Peek - Windows O/S UI

Check this out, images snapped at PDC 2005 - a sneak preview of the new Windows Boot UI and Booted O/S UI

Pretty cool, eh?

- Mike

Personaly I never understood the rush to peak at screenshots, for me it’s all about performance. Most of the bloggers and journalists at the PDC  like peeking into Windows, I’d rather take the new OS for a spin.

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