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Microsoft Plans a Natural Interface Future Full of Gestures, Touchscreens, and Haptics

Has MS finally realized Windows isn't touchscreen friendly?READ»

Microsoft Patents Shape-Shift Touchscreen to Solve Slippery Finger Woes

Tricky-to-type touchscreens may become a thing of the past if Microsoft gets its way. The software giant has patented a dynamic form-shifting touchscreen that will help fingers feel the screen's feedback.READ»

The Innovations of Microsoft’s New Research Building

Over the past two years Microsoft has been building a new building to house all of its Redmond, WA-based researchers. The researchers themselves helped design the building and Kevin Schofield, General Manager of ...READ»

Multitouch Future: Stick-on Plastic Film Can Make 108-Inch Touchscreens

A Portuguese company has announced a stick-on transparent plastic film with multitouch technology embedded inside that can make 9-foot displays.READ»

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Microsoft Opens Surface "Interactive Table" SDK for Free

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 ...READ»

Multitouch Poker: The Future of Casinos?

Moto Development Group has thrown together a neat prototype device that could possibly be the future of casinos: A multitouch, automatic, cybernetic Blackjack table. Finger-flicking financial fun, perhaps, but also a way to cut down ...READ»

Microsoft's Courier And Norhtec's Tablet: The Impossible And The Possible?

"Forget Apple's Tablet!" That's what gearheads are shouting from the rooftops after Gizmodo's leak of a new Microsoft product--"The Courier"--appeared last night during the opening of the Gizmodo Gallery. READ»

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Microsoft Sells Razorfish. What Will Happen to Surface Apps?

Microsoft has sold off its most reliable incubator for cutting-edge apps for its table computer Surface, leaving the future uncertain for how it showcases the platform.READ»

What We Want From an Apple Tablet

In a word: Apps. Apple is said to be planning a tablet, and it'll live and die by its app store even more than the iPhone.READ»

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Plans For Microsoft Retail Stores Leak Online

A highly detailed proposal for Microsoft's stores leaked online late Friday afternoon, and if it's real, Redmond's first foray into retail appears to be following the usual Microsoft formula: Roll up the best ideas of others and ...READ»

Five More Killer Apps for Microsoft Surface

In May, we brought you a list of 11 full-featured applications tailor-made for Microsoft's interactive table computing platform, Surface. With so many talented development teams hard at work on Surface, we missed a few--and the new ...READ»

11 Killer Apps for Microsoft Surface [Video]

Microsoft's interactive table, dubbed Surface, brings the heady dream of interactive computing closer reality. As developers find ways to make Surface's gorgeous multi-user interface shine, more and more companies are turning ...READ»