Tuesday, June 7, 2011

Microsoft Wave provides some cool stuff

A new site, Microsoft Wave from Microsoft's UK team that does nothing but showcase some of the cooler tech the company develops. You've heard of most of these before, but the site is a good place to catch it all under one roof. Right now, you'll find details of the following:

Microsoft Tag
Surface
Worldwide Telescope
Project Natal
Photosynth
Songsmith
Live Mesh
Deep Zoom

...and so on.

Yeah, it's a marketing ploy. Frankly, it's already sort of gummed up with a bunch filler like already-released Xbox 360 and Games for Windows titles. Yeah, Age of Empires III is great and all that, but it's sort of old news. But it should also serve to highlight some of the more interesting things Microsoft has out there, like WorldWide Telescope, that more people really should know about.

I have to wonder if Google is going to let them get away with that name, what with their much-ballyhood Google Wave project going public soon. The two are nothing alike, but since when has that stopped a lawsuit?

No comments:

Post a Comment