Craig Mundie, Microsoft’s chief research and strategy officer, is on a tour of U.S. universities this week, meeting with faculty and students at Princeton University, New York University, the University of Michigan, UC Berkeley and UC San Diego. One of the technologies he’s showing is a prototype Tablet PC application that mixes online services and PC-based software — demonstrating one way the company sees its “software plus services” strategy working in educational settings.
Here’s a video of Jonathan Cluts, Microsoft’s director of strategic prototyping, previewing the technology for me a couple weeks ago on the company’s Redmond campus. As noted toward the end of the video, the company says this is purely a prototype, with no immediate plans to turn it into a product.
– Todd Bishop, toddbishop@gmail.com
4 responses so far ↓
1 Matt S. // Oct 10, 2008 at 7:33 am
Microsoft’s R&D always seem to have amazing ideas, but they hardly ever see the true light of day. They should really get behind some of the stuff they’re working on . . . Surface being a good example.
2 Zizo // Oct 13, 2008 at 9:25 am
Man, y’all couldn’t even handle VISTA!!!
I think MS has realized that the public (mainly american public) isn’t tech savvy enough to handle products like this.
Stick to your apples. These things require you to actually USE the product. It doesn’t “just work”…
3 dido_1 // Nov 21, 2008 at 12:51 am
I think MS has realized that the public (mainly american public) isn’t tech savvy enough…?
And what public is? The country of
4 dido_1 // Nov 21, 2008 at 12:52 am
sorry - i used a tag - here is full response.
I think MS has realized that the public (mainly american public) isn’t tech savvy enough…?
And what public is? The country of insert_your_country_here
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