Speaking of IE in the previous post: Microsoft just (officially) released the first preview builds for Microsoft Edge for macOS, which uses the Chromium rendering engine internally. Although I don’t use my Mac’s Touch Bar – I’ve got set it to always show the full control strip – I really like how they’ve linked it …
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Microsoft GVFS (Git Virtual File System)
Interesting stuff by Microsoft. to handling big repositories such as their Windows code base which “has over 3.5 million files and is over 270 GB in size”. Instead of splitting the code into several manageable submodules, they’ve created a virtual filesystem to support big repositories: GVFS (Git Virtual File System) virtualizes the file system beneath …
Microsoft Surface Studio
This looks utterly amazing: And yes, that soundtrack does sound familiar indeed 😉
Microsoft Surface Book
And then … the screen detaches. Nice. Microsoft unveils the Surface Book →
Image Composite Editor 2.0
Image Composite Editor 2.0 introduces new features to the popular advanced panoramic image stitcher, including a new automatic image completion feature, which fills in the missing pixels when creating a panorama. Image Composite Editor – Microsoft Research →
WinJS – The Windows Library for JavaScript
Use WinJS to build first class apps with HTML, CSS, and JavaScript. WinJS provides high quality infrastructure like page controls, promises, and data-binding; polished UI features like virtualizing collections; and high performance Windows controls such as ListView, FlipView, and Semantic Zoom. Think of it as a mix of jQuery UI’s Components and a JavaScript MV* …
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SketchInsight
SketchInsight is an interactive whiteboard system for storytelling with data by using real-time sketching. Creating personalized, expressive data charts becomes quick and easy. The presenter simply sketches an example, and SketchInsight automatically completes the chart by synthesizing from example sketches. SketchInsight: Natural Data Exploration and Presentation through Sketch-based Interaction → (via teusje)
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Contre Jour
Hauntingly beautiful, pleasantly challenging and strangely addicting – Contre Jour is now on the web! Swing, shoot, drop or fling Petit through 30 free challenging levels right in your browser. Very nice iOS game (been playing it for quite some time now), ported to the web by to celebrate the upcomig Internet Explorer 10 team …
Digits: Freehand 3D Computer Interaction Without Gloves
Digits, a wrist-worn gloveless sensor developed by Microsoft Research enables 3-D computer interaction in any environment and is practical beyond computer gaming Look ma, the future is happening! (via ▼)