Update: This image came from a demo Microsoft did in Spain, showing off this detachable QWERTY keyboard for the controller, plus lots of other goodies. LINK
This might make the whole Media Center Extender experience built-into the Xbox 360 a whole lot more useful for those applications requiring more text input than you’d want to hunt and peck with an on-screen virtual keyboard.
(Via Engadget)
Interesting free app from Microsoft, the ‘Location Finder.’ Does a lookup of your location based on your WiFi access point or IP lookup and displays your position on MSN Virtual Earth.
(via Charlie Owen’s Retrosight).
Interesting commentary and insight on Longhorn UI. Sean Alexander of MSFT takes note of a positive report from eWeek on the just released beta.
David Coursey at eWeek wrote:
Windows Vista is the best-looking OS Microsoft has ever produced and is competitive with, and in some ways better, than Apple’s recently-introduced Mac OS X 10.4, aka Tiger.
That’s great. That’s super. But one would expect a beta product far from general release with close to two years of development left to be at least on par with a shipping product to tens of millions of users. The UI changes are spiffy in Vista – PC Magazine has a good overview on the UI changes alone.