Microsoft's Mark Bolger demonstrates the Surface's multitouch user interface. (Credit: Ina Fried/CNET News.com)
The long-awaited software developer kit for the Surface tabletop computer will be made available to those attending Microsoft’s Professional Developer Conference at the end of the month.
Microsoft made that pledge on its PDC Web site, as part of a listing for a session focused on writing Surface applications.
“Hear about the unique attributes of Microsoft Surface computing, dive into vision-based object recognition and core controls like ScatterView, and learn how the Surface SDK aligns with the multitouch developer roadmap for Windows 7,” Microsoft said, in promoting the session. “Attendees will receive access to the Microsoft Surface SDK.”
Microsoft has been promising for some time to open up Surface development beyond the select group of companies that have been working with early launch partners such as AT&...
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We were pretty amazed when we saw Robert Downey Jr. and his 3D computer in Iron Man has he redesigned his superhero costume (the scene where he’s dumping out all the unnecessary components of his suit into a 3D garbage bin).
BMW, the first automaker to use the technology, has teamed up with Microsoft to allow you a similar service called the BMW Product Navigator. Potential BMW owners will now be able to configure their new car using Microsoft Surface. Buyers will be able to chose... more
Microsoft promises developers who attend this month’s Professional Developer Conference will get the tools needed to write apps for the company’s tabletop PC.... more
All eyes are on Microsoft this week as the company hosts its annual Professional Developers’ Conference in Los Angeles.
Microsoft traditionally uses the gathering to show off all the new technologies and software releases it has in the pipeline, and the 2008 edition is no exception. The main event will be Tuesday’s debut of Windows 7, Microsoft’s next desktop operating system and successor to Vista that’s expected to be released mid-2009.
The anticipation surroun... more
New .NET tool enables developers to rapidly build Web, RIA and desktop applications with .NET and Mono
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Microsoft released a security patch on Monday for software that won’t be available publicly until Tuesday at the company’s Professional Developer Conference.... more
Vista is doomed From: feeds.theinquirer.net Post Date: 2008-10-28 02:48:42
Nick Farrell the Inquirer , Tuesday 28 October 2008. 09:11:00 Read the signs AS MICROSOFT goes into this week’s Professional Developer Conference, it is hard to find anyone keen to talk about Vista. True, it is a developer’s forum, so you would expect a fair slice of the talk to focus on Windows 7, but it seems that no one wants to mention... ... more
While the Google Chrome browser team is hard at work making the browser run natively on non-Windows operating systems, the team at CodeWeavers has already delivered a port of Chromium , the open source browser project spun off from Google’s efforts on Chrome, utilizing the WebKit engine, for both Mac OS X and Linux. Now, Mac and Linux aficionados can get the Chrome experience without having to boot up their emulation environments - giving them the same start page, top tab behavi... more
Adobe and Zend announced a partnership today to more closely integrate Zend’s PHP framework with Adobe’s Flex. The goal is to make it easier for developers to create enterprise-ready rich Internet applications by leveraging Zend’s PHP technologies on the server side, and Adobe Flex on the client end.
The first integration point between the two companies will be the delivery of an Action Messaging Format component for the Zend framework. AMF is a messaging protocol that allows Flas... more
Adobe released an updated beta of Adobe AIR for Linux . This includes 1.1 functionality and the encrypted local store, so for those of you having to retype your password into applications on Linux, that should go away. If you have any questions or issues, leave a comment, or better yet, drop by the forums .
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Google basically looked at things, decided they weren’t moving fast enough on a variety of fronts, and said “screw it, we’ll just do it ourselves”. I understand that Google Chrome has been in the works for quite a while, so this isn’t some new revelation. Google realized that they had to take web matters into the only hands they trust - their own. Here’s what Blaise says:
He ignores the Firefox community. The life of a Firefox user does improve as the user base grows. A more ... more
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