03-13-2007, 03:30 PM
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Developer & Designer, News Editor Emeritus
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Microsoft's Vision of 2010: Mobile Devices, Tablet PCs, and More
"The story involves a scientist who was snowed-in on return from his vacation, forcing him to work as well as give a presentation to 900 other scientists all from the hotel room. It�s a story we can all relate to. The technologies this demo utilities includes smartphones, mobile connectivity, cross-platform communication, Tablet PCs, virtual office synchronization, collaborative editing, professional networking (think LinkedIn), VOIP, internet shopping and remote presentations with video."
This is the kind of collaboration concept that looks good and runs smoothly to the point that it would leave anyone's jaw hanging indefinitely. Think we'll see all this (minus that infamous Moto device) in 2010? Have your say in this thread.
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03-13-2007, 03:58 PM
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Magi
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For a guy who grew up with rotary phones and party lines, I find this stuff incredibly, fabulously, mind bogglingly, stupendously, completely, humongously, COOL!!!
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03-13-2007, 04:18 PM
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Philosopher
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That was really cool indeed...
but with all that cool technology, why was the guy using MPX as his phone 8O
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03-13-2007, 05:54 PM
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Pupil
Join Date: Mar 2007
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dream on... 2017 may be a bit more realistic.
nah seriously, even if the technology and tools are available to get this kind of user interactivity to work on a corporate lvl is gonna take a miracle (or at least hours of tedious and painful training...).
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03-13-2007, 06:20 PM
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Pupil
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Originally Posted by samw5
dream on... 2017 may be a bit more realistic.
nah seriously, even if the technology and tools are available to get this kind of user interactivity to work on a corporate lvl is gonna take a miracle (or at least hours of tedious and painful training...).
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I totally agree...
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03-13-2007, 07:50 PM
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Thinker
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Furthermore, Microsoft needs to get its collective ducks in a row to actually pull that off seamlessly at any point in the future.
They talk a good game, I'll give them that.
Dennis
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03-13-2007, 07:56 PM
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Magi
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I'm not sure what I'm missing. I think this is very cool......and I don't see what is so far out of reach about it all. There isn't much there that isn't far from what is available now. It is mostly integration, and expansion of existing capabilities.
Teams like they illustrated there are doing many things like that now with Microsofts "Groove" with video conferencing thrown in.
Dave
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03-13-2007, 08:55 PM
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Intellectual
Join Date: Nov 2006
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Back to the Future
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Originally Posted by alese
but with all that cool technology, why was the guy using MPX as his phone 8O
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Because this video was produced back in 2005. It still holds up pretty well, though I think it's a bit overly optimistic. For some reason, people predicting the future always seem to think the pace of innovation will be faster than it really is.
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03-13-2007, 08:55 PM
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Thinker
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This is pretty neat. But realistically, I doubt we'll see these technologies working together seamlessly like this for another 4-6 years (6 years I'm betting). Sure the technology is available now, but it'd be a mess getting everything to work together as displayed in the video. On top of it you have to think about the Tablet/Notebook PC's with phone capabilities that need to be supported. The successor to Windows Vista will most likely have much more "interactive" features but we're still a ways from this scenario.
2010, in 3 years? I'll be surprised if I see it available and working this good. I'd be in heaven.
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03-13-2007, 08:57 PM
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Ponderer
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Originally Posted by alese
That was really cool indeed...
but with all that cool technology, why was the guy using MPX as his phone 8O
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The MPX wasn't the only obsolete hardware dug up to look futuristic, all the Tablets were Compaq TC1100s (discontinued by HP). Both of those had unique form factors that haven�t been replaced by anything in the market.
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