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In my related blog post about Remapping the Universe with fantastic new technologies, I was fascinated about that presentation.
Well, now Microsoft has got in to the game with Microsoft Surface.

This is equally fascinating in my opinion. I certainly hope that we will see this technology became available soon.

I just noticed on the Microsoft Expression site that the RC is available.
Downloading it now and will test it soon.

Download Expression Blend RC

Maybe you have read and seen this fascinating video and thought, "Hmm... I want to do this myself".

Well, now you can.

Alessandro masserdotti from Tinker.it has posted his instructions on how to build the "Multitouch table".
Using Plexiglas, LED's and what not, they recreated this technique.

So, follow his instructions and try it for yourself!

Today, Microsoft released SQL Server 2005 Service pack 2 and Virtual PC 2007.

Checkout the What's New in SQL Server 2005 SP2 and the press release.

Download here.

And Virtual PC 2007 can be downloaded here.

The much anticipated high tech Optimus keyboard, which was suppose to offer a keyboard will full support for programmable color keys, has some interesting possibilities for the enthusiast. At least its little brother, the Mini Three, which actually is shipping in version 2.0, can be programmed in some interesting ways. Scott Hanselman has created a way to show videos on the Optimus Mini Three.

He as also posted a SoapBox  video of his results.

But please, could someone give the man a camera stand...

Now that Microsoft has released Windows Vista, they also released some updates for Vista. (Yes I have, as many other, been running Vista RTM for about 2 months now). Today, I hade these updates in the Windows Update applet:

Also worth noting is that a plethora of language packs has also been released:

Update:
The updates are described here:
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/930857
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/928089
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/929427
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/929685
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/931573
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/929735

Yesterday Microsoft released the final RTM version 1.0 of ASP.NET AJAX.

If you don't know that AJAX is then have a look here.

It is interesting to see what others have built using this framework.

Our plan is to incorporate AJAX for an upcoming online presets viewer/editor for the Online Radio Tuner radio station presets.

In the ASP.NET AJAX Forums there are more than 250 000 users generating close to 1.5 million posts.

I was fascinated by the visual user interface used in the movie Minority Report.

Is now seems that Perceptive Pixel has made a fully functional working technology for this kind of user interface.

Just look at this: 

If you can't see the video, here's a direct link.

Read the article here.

I like it a lot.
But even if the GUI used in the movie Minority Report was intriguing, I suppose that Johnny Mnemonic was running the prototype...

You can also read about a similar technology from Cynergy here.

If you are developing database related software, or using SQL Server 2005 in some way, this could be interesting. Microsoft has released a new MSSQL 2005 SP2 CTP. Go and get it here.

Behringer has recently announced a complete package consisting of both hardware and software for your basic podcasting needs. Because everything is in the package, it is very simple to start right away without researching for what type of microphone, mixer, headphones, software and other accessories that you will need to get started. The bundle is named PODCASTUDIO and connects to your PC using the FireWire interface. And why not use Online Radio Tuner to listen to your published podcasts.

The package has a RRP of $269.99.

There is an excellent tool for blogging, the Windows Live Writer from Microsoft. I have been using this tool for quit sometime now and I regard it as my primary blogging tool at the moment. Simply because it speed up my blogging process considerably. Just fire it up, write your hearts content, select category and publish it in one go.

Now, up until now I haven't successfully made a seamless integration with Community Server regarding the Weblog style functionality. I simply got an error stating that the Weblog style could not be updated.

But after applying the Community Server v2.1 Service Pack 2 the Windows Live Writer does successfully retrieve and us my Weblog style:

Now you can start to redistribute your XNA development results with the XNA Framework runtime redistributable. 

Link to Download details: Microsoft XNA Framework Redistributable 1.0

It's here now!

Go to the Microsoft download page and get it.

 This development tool will help you in your quest of developing games for both the Xbox and for Windows.