I’m typically one of those who is underwhelmed by what Microsoft offers. There isn’t really anything “sexy” about Windows, Office, SharePoint, etc. There are two recent products that I’ve seen that actually make me interested in what Microsoft is doing — in more than just the how-are-they-screwing-up-now kind of way.
The first is Surface. [...]
If you have heard about Parallels for running a virtualized OS within Mac OS X (Intel) chances are you have heard about VMWare Fusion. Parallels has a feature called Coherence that pulls the virtualized applications out of the “boxed in” interface, and allows them to “mingle” with the OS X apps. VMWare obviously has picked [...]
When I hear the phrase “Researchers at MIT…” I know I’m about to read/hear about something that is potentially mind blowing. What I just saw at TreeHugger was along those lines.
Researchers at MIT are building a prototype of a lightweight electric vehicle that can be cheaply mass-produced, rented by commuters under a shared-use business [...]