Microsoft Surface Pro, RT And Windows 8 in PixelSense

Microsoft has made consumer hardware before, but the surface Pro and RT represent their most ambitious attempts yet. Unfortunately for Microsoft, the surface and RT Pro, powered by the new Windows 8 operating system, not set the world on fire yet, and that is causing some to make some comparisons very negative.

Somehow, it seems unfair. The Pro surface is still very new, having only launched last month. But Windows 8 and Surface RT both reach retail stores in time for the holidays 2012. They do not do so well, then, and now everyone from analysts to Microsoft partners are hitting entire effort of Redmond.

Samsung has just criticized Windows 8 and the surface several times, saying that the new OS is not better than Windows Vista. Acer president said that Windows 8 is not successful. And now, an analyst at MKM Israel Hernandez is out pushing the idea that the surface and Windows 8 are as bad as the Microsoft Zune Media Player, who was killed by Redmond five years after a failed attempt to compete with Apple's iPod.

RT surface is "on track to join Zune and Kin rack in large discount consumer electronics in the sky," said Hernandez, according to the Motley Fool. The Surface Pro has a better chance, but considering the dismal sales Surface RT, Hernandez seems he did not have much hope for him.
 

Meanwhile, Hernandez said that Windows 8 is "dangerously close to being permanently rejected by consumers," and Microsoft partners are "currently in open revolt." Apparently, Windows 8 is such a bomb that OEMs are choosing to align itself with the Google Chrome OS.

These claims are all extremely hard, and while both the surface and Windows 8 have their share of problems, it is difficult to see how Hernandez claims closer to the truth. Microsoft certainly has a lot of work to do to convince consumers to buy Windows 8 devices, but it is unlikely that OEMs will stay in "revolt", while Surface Pro and RT only outsell all Chromebooks three times over.Either way, it should be an interesting year as Microsoft Surface and Windows 8 retools going forward.

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MicroSoft PixelSense on Surface Enterprise

 

Microsoft is now allowing companies to bulk buy their tablets - both surface and RT Pro.Enterprise customers can now place orders for the entire company launches, despite the fact that the version of Pro 128GB surface remains missing.

While buying scheme - first seen by ZDNet - already live, Microsoft admitted customers may experience delays: "The delivery times and order requirements may vary depending on stock."The company will also give preference to existing enterprise customers with new business partners who have to wait longer.

"If you do not have a volume licensing agreement with Microsoft, there may be additional processing time to set up the account and terms of credit," Microsoft said, adding all necessary commercial orders a purchase order valid company.The site is available for commercial orders UK customers, but as the Pro version has yet to be released here only tablets surface RT and accessories are available at present.

Well as tablets and accessories, Microsoft also detailed three-year service extension plans Hardware cost of $ 200 per device for the Pro and $ 150 Surface to Surface RT.The extended warranty is restricted to customers in the U.S. and Canada, and includes a replacement machine to reduce downtime.

"The plan includes the transportation of a replacement unit out before return the product to minimize downtime," Microsoft said. "The Extended Service Plan hardware can be purchased up to 45 days after purchasing the device."

When Microsoft dropped the bombshell that it was launching its own tablet, the company not only risked alienating its PC partners, but detonated his credibility is not showing them how to do it properly.

 

There is no doubt that Microsoft Surface RT is a serious tablet, but it's good enough to lure people away from their iPads, their Android tablets, or even their laptops? Or is it a mere stopgap until the full-fledged versions of Windows 8 tablet Surface arrive to complement this version based on ARM.

Microsoft made it clear from the beginning that the surface is intended to serve as an example for computer makers, and it is clear that this is not a piece of hardware cliché. Two things stand out make the surface uniform slabs of glass that we have witnessed over the last two years: the kickstand and detachable keyboards

The mechanics are wonderfully simple kickstand. The lower half of the back of the tablet casing moves out to create a backing, turning the device into a pseudo portable when used with one of the keypads. When you finish with the support, he turns back into place, perfectly aligned with the back of the tablet, and satisfactory to the beat of a car door expensive.

However, support is set at a fixed position, leaving no means of adjusting the angle of the screen as you would on a conventional laptop. This left the members of the highest PC Pro team bent awkwardly on the surface that tried to work with the device on a table, although our colleagues had more modest claim. 

This angle would be slightly too vertical a much bigger problem if the screen was not as bright 10.6in. The viewing angles are excellent - maybe a little too good to eavesdroppers on a train seat beside.A maximum screen brightness is comparable to 400cd/m2 iPad, and while the surface has a contrast ratio of 3,333:1 striking measured is due to the presence of dynamic contrast.

Flick the pages between dark and bright, and can detect the backlight raising and lowering brightness to compensate. Still, guarantees that the IPS panel palette of bright colors that make up the Windows 8 home screen zing off the screen, and photos and video provide sumptuous levels of saturation.

The 1366 x 768 resolution is not going to cause Apple's engineering department ashamed back to the drawing board, but when you are sitting a foot or so away from the screen surface that does not feel like she has no detail or sharpness.

The tablet feels delicious on hand, too. There are a lot of marketing waffle around the material that forms VaporMg called the box, but he feels strong and soft to the touch. The coal project is commendable discreet black, with just a subtle Windows logo adorning the back.

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Microsoft pixelsense a new era in Tab Technology

 

By now, unless you've been raised up under a rock, you know that Microsoft will be launching its Windows 8 tablets around the holidays this year. However, one part of this is a product that seems to have flown under the shaven optical glass display. Probably because when you hear the words "optical glass," You think this is a creative, simply called "the clear" or something equally obvious.

However, I've been following since the original Surface product launch and have already seen this tech in action. Sometimes, too, he tried to buy, which is able to give to his native land to be able to play as in the New $ 7,000.

What makes the "optical glass" different? You want what he can. As yet there is no other information about the tablet. This really is the offering of a revolutionary, much more advanced than anything Apple, or other person currently has access to.

I think that this is one of the character of the writer of Microsoft Surface is a tablet, underplayed the way, which is a being, and was able to turn it and greater than, the object of the related products THEWED all of us into the next robbery.

The birth of an optical glass

With the surface of the table (and now renamed PixelSense, along with appropriate technology) was first created, Microsoft's goal is to design in a tablet, which might interact with the people in unique ways. In many ways it was a super tablet, with emphasis on the "table" part of the name of the table. Initial hardware consisted of an opaque glass screen suspended above the camera and projector.

 

The projector would project the computer image on the screen at the back, and the camera would track what the user did with vastly wider than any resistance or WIDE touch interface could work. In effect, you could see the hand cups your members coaster game, or whatever you put on the screen in one credit card again for a title they could drive.

Although clearly anticipated by bringing this product into the home of Microsoft (see video) the generation of the first turned out to be way too complex. Hardware has had good things tend to escape the alignment, that is, in all places of mourning, the work would be able to move your finger is still some distance away in the objects manager.

 So Microsoft is moving to generation two, which meant making a solid state camera and capability building in the glass. What had happened to it is optical glass, and the production of which is the only thing in broad The display can actually "see" without the use of the camera because it is in the effect, is the camera.

For example, if you had a series of paint brushes that were unique, each could represent a totally different texture, by the stroke of a brush, or even a sound (you may be able to express music). Here is a music creation app, for instance, that was two years ago. It can discriminate between the hands of another. Even here it is said that there is room in the camera view.

Games are particularly interesting, because you can have multiple actors, all playing at the same time and from different angles the screen. Imagine your kids with one of these tablets, playing versions of virtual games, typically after one or two chantries to break (thank God for Gorilla Glass). Ces from the This demo gives you a sense of where the gaming two years ago, back then it was in this technology.

In fact, all the demo I've been able to find, they are two years old and in the next-gen tech. Surface will use third gen technology.
Another leap forward

If you clicked in any of the links above you saw one generation, which was a bit impractical but in truth the cool, and the generation of two, which was better but way too expensive and there was want of speed and resolution. This new generation will have a three tables, and remember: In the third generation Microsoft is the one that is typically great. What generation is not valid unless it is.

In the tables of the sacrament of seasoning, but not all. It's the greatest part of that, folks, it does not get enough right now. Only this way, however, mentioned Microsoft innovate, however, from the fact that if you want to innovate, and perhaps out of an apple.

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Photos App sample and controls inside Microsoft PixelSense

 

The Garage is back to share the Photos App sample application with reusable sample controls for use with the Microsoft Surface 2.0 software Development Kit (SDK), It's more goodness Microsoft PixelSense community.

This seems very versatile application packs some great design and engineering innovations that make easy for people to walk right up to a Samsung SUR40 with Microsoft PixelSense insert USB removable media, and instantly share their photos with friends, colleagues and customers.

This sample application can be easily deployed and used the complete sample code included with reusable controls, and - it is provided as-is, and is not supported. Photos: Click here to download from the App Garage.

Photos App included sample controls

This sample includes a number of reusable sample application developers can use to make their own applications controlsthat even better:

    Dockable content side of the screen for later ScatterView SNAP, have intelligently organize themselves
    Just-in-time Chrome Touch to display information about a piece of content, it is a text with a fade
    Move background file copy files from removable media to the device
    Great background removable media | Let your app to know when new content is available
    Loading content from removable media and take pictures in the background ScatterViews import content in Microsoft Surface ScatterView containers
 

Installing Photos App

This sample did not come with their own applications installer.Copy desert. Zip file in a folder that all users will have access to the content (eg: 100: \ SurfaceApps \). Right-click on PhotosApp \ Release \ PhotosApp.xml file and Create Shortcut. Copy shortcut file to 100: \ ProgramData \ Microsoft \ Surface \ Programs \ and then use the Surface Configuration Utility to add the application to the Launcher.

Using removable media USB Photos App

In Photos App has the ability to display photos from an external USB storage device. All you have to do is create a directory on the USB drive called \ PhotosApp \ Content \ put your photos there. Income Photos Apps tail removable USB drive on your Samsung SUR40. The photos will replace the existing contents of the directory and Photos Apps persist until other removable USB device inserted, and new content is copied over.

 If you want to disable the ability to copy photos from removable media to change the content in the application directory on the hard drive \ PhotosApp \ Content \ to read-only. This will prevent overwriting the original files from the file system with the new pictures, and effectively block users from sharing their photos on the device.

About The Garage

Garage is a community of Microsoft hired, who are passionate about Microsoft PixelSense, Samsung SUR40, computer vision, and natural user interface (NUI) Technologies. Last year TechCrunch reporter visited Devin Coldewey wrote a great article that gives a little more background Surface Garage in group: "Microsoft's Surface Garage: A Cross-Department Development Team, With Beer and pizza."

One of the group's goals is to contribute to the greater helpful code samples and demo PixelSense development community. This is the work is done by enthusiastic employees in their off-hours. Tags of the remission of the sign of the Product such as, but He does great in addition to the examples as they can be useful to the state.

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Experience Things in Whole Way to MicroSoft PixelSense

 

Microsoft PixelSense allows display to recognize fingers, hands, and objects placed on the screen, enabling vision-based interaction without the use of cameras.

   Individual pixels in the display see what's touching the screen and that information is immediately processed and interpreted.

For instance, a resolution between the brain and the eye. And the work done, in order to see. Here is the eye sensor in the tables.

It picks up the image and feeds, to acknowledge that to the brain, which is our vision of the process input image and does something with it. Taken in the whole .This is PixelSense technology.But how were PixelSense STEP-BY-STEP.

      A contact (finger / BLOB / tag / object) is placed on display.
IR back light unit provides light (although the optical sheets, LCD and protection glass) who hits the contacts.Light reflected from the contact is seen by the integrated sensors.

      Sensors convert the light signal into electrical signal / value. All values ​​are reported to the image sensors are used to make the display.The painting is analyzed using image processing techniques.Output is sent to the PC. Includes an improved image sensor and the various types of contact (fingers / blobs / tags).




 
Technology Experience

 The Samsung SUR40 with Microsoft PixelSense brings people together to connect, learn, and decide. It makes the experiences that change the way people collaborate and connect with a stunning 360-degree interface. The SUR40 sees and responds to touch and objects of supporting more than 50 simultaneous account.

This experience comes to life in the Samsung SUR40 40-inch display which can be used as a table, a wall, or imbedded in other fixtures or furniture.

touch possibilities
How can you experience the Samsung SUR40 with Microsoft PixelSense in your organization? Ponder only mode. Whether you are in the hospitality, retail, care, professional services, or the public sector, you can change the way people interact with information and each other.

      Make content more engaging. Give your customers Screen and immersive ways to engage with photos, videos, documents, maps, custom applications, and more.

      Deliberate, and pretend. To real-time "if / then" modeling and visualization, simulations and calculations-perfect for financial services, business, and other consultative environments.

      Make learning more fun. Breathe forth a new life in the education process with rich visualizations Teamwork Who seek your comfort and to enhance learning.

      To transform the shopping experience. Make shopping more immersive its customers, with more options, recommendations, product and service comparisons, and personalized service.

      Connect with customers through games and pastimes. Have some fun by putting SUR40 in restaurants, bars, hotel lobbies, and other venues, associating memorable experiences with your brand.

      Communicate and connect. Give people an efficient and intriguing new way to get the information they're looking for-like maps and tourist destinations in the hotel lobby. Or to change personal information to help us to connect with themselves, that they may be what you do.

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App Development for MicroSoft PixelSense

 

Use Microsoft Surface 2.0 software Development Kit (SDK) to build applications for the Samsung SUR40 touch and Windows PCs.


The SDK works with Visual Studio and the targets. NET Framework 4.0 running on Windows 7. Get started today, the forces available in the Microsoft PixelSense Design and Development Center.


Applications are built using Microsoft PixelSense for Microsoft Surface 2.0 SDK, and are ideal for any scenario in which users need to interact together on one device. Focus of the applications of these connections is in creating a real.



Whether it's connecting customers, information and each other, or more clever in connecting to the engines. Microsoft Surface SDK 2.0 supports Windows 7 Professional (32-bit and 64-bit), so you can use a Windows 7 touch computer for basic testing or creation of touch applications.


 And with more administration tools, deploying, and managing in the Samsung SUR40 in the organization is easier than ever. Microsoft Surface SDK 2.0 builds upon:

      Windows 7 Professional 64-bit embedded
      . NET Framework 4.0
      Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) 4.0
      Microsoft ® XNA Framework 4.0
      Windows PowerShell and DMTF DASH support, enhanced       tools and administrator.

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Turner Broadcasting uses GLOBAL edit For Microsoft PixelSense

 

Industrial Color Software and Turner Broadcasting System, Inc. have joined forces to bring GLOBALedit request LightTable the Samsung SUR40 with Microsoft PixelSense.

The LightTable GLOBALedit is an enterprise application foreground with a user interface designed specifically for 360 multiple people at the same time. Demand SUR40 has been created in association with Sevensteps developer. LightTable allows people to connect in real time with GLOBALedit cloud based platform to bring photo editing, margins, images, layout and creative review sessions creative life.

We now live in the best of both worlds, we combined the desired connection and emotional human and the latest digital technology and creative tools to increase productivity, "says Christopher Grakal, vice president of photography and management digital assets for Turner Broadcasting System, Inc.



GLOBALedit LightTable debuted at the Createasphere conference in New York September 27th and 28th at the New Hotel New Yorker, Color industrial visit booth  214 to receive a live demonstration of LightTable.Recently made to the Microsoft Worldwide ASSOCIATED NUIverse tremendous SPLASH Conference, and now it's available as an exclusive download for Samsung SUR40 with Microsoft PixelSense.

This sample application demonstrates the wonderful advanced multitouch interaction, from 360 ° Screen interface, object interaction and pleasurable utilizing transparent bytes tags - all while you and your friends to explore the world. This app comes to life only in the Samsung SUR40 and is a great way to experience the power of Microsoft technology PixelSense.

In NUIverse sample application is created by David Brown, a sandbox for exploring "Natural User Interaction" with a multi-dimensional dataset. Holiday is a genius in the treatment of the direct interaction of the species, and not a full solar precisely indented. And applied to it, so that if, without cause.

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Microsoft PixelSense an innovative product

Samsung SUR40 with Microsoft PixelSense is an innovative product that responds to touch, natural gestures of the hand and real-world objects placed on the screen, which allows easy interaction with information and digital content in a simple and intuitive . With a large, 360-degree, 4-inch horizontal end user interface, the Samsung SUR40 offers a unique gathering place where multiple users can simultaneously collaborate and interact with content and each other.

 In addition, the SUR40 provides businesses with a unique value in providing information services and a more user-friendly for better engagement with their customers. Samsung SUR40 with Microsoft PixelSense is targeted for companies across a variety of industries, including retail, hospitality, healthcare and the public sector.

Key Features:

Samsung SUR40 with Microsoft PixelSense is a major breakthrough in computing that moves beyond the traditional user interface to a more natural way of interacting with information. The four main features that make this unique experience are:

    The multi-user experience. The horizontal form factor makes it easy for several people to gather together, providing a collaborative computing experience face-to-face.

    Contact with massive multitouch. Samsung SUR40 with Microsoft PixelSense recognizes many points of contact simultaneously, not just from one finger like with a typical touch screen, but dozens and dozens of items at once.

    The direct interaction. Users can actually "grab" digital information with their hands and interact with content through touch and gesture, without the use of a mouse or keyboard.

    Object recognition. Users can place physical objects on the display to trigger different types of digital responses, including the transfer of digital content.

 

Samsung SUR40 with Microsoft PixelSense:

At CES 2011, Microsoft unveiled the destiny of the tactile experience with Microsoft technology PixelSense, which gives LCD panels the power to see without the use of cameras.

This experience comes to life in the Samsung SUR40 with Microsoft PixelSense, which incorporates significant technological advances designed to improve the user experience.

Samsung SUR40 with Microsoft has PixelSense dongle and software advances informed by feedback from users worldwide.

    Microsoft PixelSense. Microsoft PixelSense allows display to recognize fingers, hands and objects placed on the screen, enabling vision-based interaction without the use of cameras. Individual pixels in the display see what's touching the screen and that information is immediately processed and interpreted.

    PixelSense technology provides innovative user experience based on the principles of direct interaction with the touch and objects. The Microsoft Surface 2.0 SDK allows application developers to leverage the capabilities of the technology PixelSense.

    Slim form factor with multiple configuration options. The Samsung SUR40 is four inches thin, making it easy to use as a table, hang on the wall with the VESA mount, or embed in walls or custom cabinets. There is the standard leg supports available or customers can design and set their own leg supports.

    Viewing high-definition widescreen. The 40-inch screen super high definition (1920 x 1080) allows multi-user experiences and improved multitouch.

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Inside Microsoft PixelSense

 

Launch of Microsoft Surface tablet means that the previous product that was known was renamed the Samsung SUR40 with Microsoft PixelSense. But the larger 40-inch touchscreen table that is so popular in the exhibition and events has also been recently updated. We sat with some of the first Microsoft partners to develop content for Surface / PixelSense to talk about how the new system differs from the original, and that designers should keep in mind when optimization impressions events and exhibitions.

Size and detection

The unit itself is much thinner than the previous version, which was about a foot and a half deep and stood on its own as a piece of furniture. Now, the 40-inch screen has a bevel four inches around the outside of the screen, with a depth of about four inches. Factor all-in-one form has a computer he built unit itself.

The depth of the previous unit area needed for infrared cameras embedded in feel where users were touching the screen. There are no cameras in the new version, it incorporates detection technology vision within an LCD screen."What continues to make it unique among most other touch multi-user detection platforms there is that it is based on the vision. It can actually see the shadow of your finger, it can give you the direction of your finger and the amount of rotation. Which is great in a multiuser scenario, because if you can see in what sense is a finger, you can play UI controls so that 'they automatically face the user that has affected, "said Darren Stimulant CEO David.

The operating system PixelSense also got a big boost, upgrading from Windows Vista to Windows 7. The first version was not an evolutionary perspective OS, while 2.0 is upgraded.

Display

The new LCD product a clearer display, as opposed to the old model based on the projection.

"It is full HD 1920-by-1080, where it was in 1024-by-768 in the previous version. It is visually a much cleaner and clearer, "says Inhance digital co-founder and president Maziar Farzam.InterKnowlogy ceo Emilie Hersh agrees that the caliber of the HD screen is certainly an improvement.

"With many of our health care based on clients it was particularly interesting, because the screen brightness in V1 was not necessarily the expectations of seeing things as radiological images or something where they need clear details. Our customers are health care much more impressed by the clarity and resolution HD is now, "says Hersh.

 

Recognition

Both versions of tags lever surface / PixelSense recognition marks or an object, a system of eight bits label with 256 different values ​​that allow objects marked with them to interact directly with the screen. In version 2.0, the technology detects PixelSense been at the pixel LCD, so it is a bit more accurate than before.

"The main advantage with PixelSense is object recognition, because it is integrated. If you can think of how to engage and link to a product and the physical object to interact with the table, it really brings the wow factor to "Farzam said.

InterKnowlogy did just that as part of a recent project of Coca-Cola in Atlanta Food & Wine Festival. Designers scored three different SmartWater bottles and encode them into the application. When participants to one of three different bottles on the table that spin information on the event, product line or InterKnowlogy.

"There are all sorts of interactive elements that you can use. QR codes are great because users can break it with their smartphone and they gain experience with them," said Hersh.

Mounting

The first version of the surface was a horizontal display only, but the device is thinner comes with a VESA mount which allows it to be hung vertically from a wall or mounted on an angle, which gives designers the flexibility a little more in the way it can be integrated in an environment.

"When you have tabular, collaboration is much easier, it is true that it is multi-touch environment comes into play. When you put it on the wall, it is clear that you will not have too many people who receive both, so there are some design considerations that must come into play, "says Hersh.

The unit itself can also be programmed to respond to interactions differently depending on how it is mounted, causing a richer experience for the user."It has a built-in accelerometer, the software can meet, so that you can build an application that behaves differently automatically. He knows if the table is horizontal or vertical," says David.

Lighting

Unfortunately, the latest update has not addressed the issue of the sensitivity of the camera to the lighting environment.

"We found Surface 1.0 is very sensitive to lighting environment and we thought the new version would be a great improvement, but unfortunately, it is always the same. When we deploy at trade shows, I warn all those who used to be very aware of the ambient lighting and overhead. certainly it causes interference with infrared touch technology, "says Farzam.David agreed, saying: "The worst are halogen or incandescent lights or direct-everything that releases a lot of IR light. This results in ghost keys and a user interface can seem kind of fishy. '

Based PixelSense

The current price level of the unit is $ 8.600, which is below the price tag of $ 15,000 V1. Designers should estimate a total cost between $ 9,000 and $ 10,000 shipped, including taxes and mounting brackets.And while the technology is very cool in itself, the content is the real key to success in mobilizing PixelSense.

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Using a standard Windows account on PixelSense

 
An attempt to log in as a standard user mode on a Windows PixelSense Microsoft. I have done earlier today, but I somehow messed it.I want to run programs on the Unity3D PixelSense in a non-administrator account. I tried to run a program Unity3D Applications Launcher surface, but were unable to. My attempts are recorded here: Disabling Microsoft PixelSense (aka Living) Time Shell SurfaceWhen I create a standard user account and switch to it, I get the following message:When the unit is in surface area, it accuont user can not connect because it is not a group member or designated as Admiinistrators account the current mode of surface. Click OK to close the session.

    Contact your administrator and ask for one of the following changes:
   Put the unit in windows mode;Add this account to the Administrators group;Assign this account as the surface mode using the "surfuser assign" command.I think earlier today, I had the PixelSense Windows mode. I am confused by the terminology, because documentation gives the impression that the two modes are visibly different. If I am never seen in surface mode, I do not know why I get the error message above, unless there is a way of behind-the-scenes.

  

ModeSwitcher has documented two flags: enteruser-and-exitadmin it, put both PixelSense Surface Mode. Execution without flags ModeSwitcher no output. Try enteradmin-or-be-exituser produces no output.

    Pressing the power button brings up a menu with an "Exit Area". When pressed, this button to close the menu. If the system is obviously Surface Mode, it gives a prompt to allow you to disconnect. After performing this action, logging in the standard user account always gives the error message.Viewable mode, use Ctrl + Alt + Del to log on will take you to the account selection screen, but the connection to a standard user account still gives you the message.

 RESET does not affect the system behavior. SurfUser documentation does not control for Windows Mode.Things I try following:Delving into the. Registry.Setting the PixelSense to debug PixelSense Mode.Restoring to its factory settings to see what his behavior is initially.Any help would be greatly appreciated.

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MicroSoft PixelSense the father of shelf space in Prototype

 

Apple employee unveiled the first prototype pictures from 2005 of what would become a few years later the iPhone. Today it is the turn of Microsoft to give us his first test materials on the tablet surface, officially this time.

In a long interview with the website The Verge, Panos Panay, the father of the shelf space back on all the steps that preceded the launch of the tablet in 2012. The opportunity to see photos of the first attempts by Microsoft to make the thinnest tablet possible, able to magnetize a slim keyboard (again), but can also stand with a tripod on the back of the device.

 The illustrations are amazing in more ways than one, since it shows that the first model of the cover was made using pieces of scotch and the tablet was using a piece of string. We also learn that the keyboard was at first yellow in color, but the project was abandoned visibly (for memory, touch and type cover cover is available in blue, black, pink, red and white). In contrast, additional colors and exclusive versions are under consideration.

 

Panos Panay, who had previously worked on PixelSense (the first version of Surface, which was at the time a table) shows that the development of the Pro version of the Windows 8 tablet began three months after the version in RT Windows ... This may partly explain the delay in the launch of space compared to the Pro edition RT.

The good news is that during those long hours of development, Microsoft team was able to reduce the thickness of the covers by from 4.5 to 3 mm. A team that has also grown over the months since 12 people, it rose to 30 and 80.

In the end, even if the software part has been criticized since its release, the tablet is an undeniable success on the material plane. It only remains to hope that the sales of the device take off more than surface RT since October 2012 appointment in a few weeks, leaving Surface Pro in Europe.

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Microsoft describes PixelSense Future Aspect

 

Microsoft lifts the veil on the design surface, the tablet Windows RT / 8. One can not appreciate the device and operating system related, but it is always interesting to take a look behind the scenes of the design of an electronic terminal, especially since it was for Microsoft to engage in the production of new equipment after the Xbox and Zune deceased. 

Panos Panay is in charge of touch tables PixelSense (formerly Surface) who inherited the project: it was to be launched at the same time as Windows 8, and if several designs have been conceived, it is ultimately the "form factor "of the tablet that has been selected.



 
The small team of 12 people has multiplied prototypes "Georgetown" (code name for the area RT), led by the obligation to maintain absolute secrecy - should not be made a partner manufacturer perfume at the risk of altering its relationship with Microsoft. The timing is also a secret: officially, the "vision" based Windows 8 tiles was validated before the launch of the first iPad in 2010.


 

Design prototypes massively used 3D printing for rapid results convincing cases for the tablet, but also for Touch Cover / Type. The case / keyboard was a strong demand for Microsoft, which has caused headaches for the team. In the end, this device has been hailed as a success by critics. Special editions and additional colors will be available as well in the near future.


The design of the Surface Pro, codenamed "Georgetown X" began three months after that of the RT area, not because of a delay due to possible technical problems, but simply a lack of time and availability of the team. As for the next generation of Surface, Microsoft and Panay are on the spot. Despite not really obvious success, Redmond remains confident that the tablet has a future.

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Microsoft executives in emergence of PixelSense

Panos Panay, who led the development team for Microsoft Surface has described the genesis of the Tablets of the early concepts to finished product. Speaking to The Verge, he reported the problems to be overcome.

Surface RT was developed under the code name Georgetown. A key requirement was that nothing was prematurely leaked on Microsoft's own tablet plans. Second, it should necessarily concurrently with Windows 8 on the market. "The goal was to, Windows 8 to life," said Panay.

Panay had earlier on desktop computers Pixel Sense (previously also known as Surface) work. He started the tablet trend with a small team of 12 employees, which grew later to 30 and eventually more than 80 employees. Although there from the beginning was to go to a tablet, and other form factors were considered. When the development of Surface began exactly, could be not elicit Panay. The official explanation is that the design concepts of Windows 8 already stood firm before Apple introduced its iPad.

Strict secrecy was the software giant important because it does not disturb its Windows 8 OEM partners wanted. On the other hand he did not trust the hardware manufacturers seem to not to create exactly the type of device that should be about it. Companies like Acer and Lenovo were later naturally angry and accordingly expressed from the well.

The concept of Surface can be explained according to Panay in one sentence: The users should therefore take longer than competing tablets. Clear requirement was also that the device had to remain thin and lightweight. When the first prototype tested the developer rounded backs and edges before they decided on a flat back and angled edges.

 

A particular challenge proved type and attaching the cover. You should be very thin and protect the tablet surface well. The team decided to use a removable protective cover that was to attach with a magnet. After numerous prototypes were TouchCover and Type Cover, each of which was created by different people. With only a 3 mm thin envelope holding the team the original target to develop a protective case, with less than 4.5 millimeters thick.

Work on Tablet Surface Pro began under the codename Georgetown X three months later. According Panay that's the only reason why the Pro version was only delivered three months after RT Surface. "It was really just an employee, and time availability." Delaying or product problems had not occurred.

The developers are busy now with future generations of Surface. "I'm talking about generations, not just one," said Panay. "The teams are working hard on them and are excited by what they achieve. I think it is still better -. And hopefully exactly what you expect from us ".

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High Quality Features in Micosoft PixelSense

 

But when the world moved to smartphones, Microsoft recalled late to get on the train and stayed behind. However, the company of Bill Gates did not think at the moment the mistakes of the past, but the design of the future.

The software giant announced yesterday (Friday) to establish "Forecasting Lab" (Envisioning Lab) at the company headquarters in the city Redmond Washington State. Meter is to present new laboratory company's perception regarding future technology. 

According to Microsoft, our future will probably touch screens and interactive giant 80-inch size, making the walls of our house a huge performance and respond to voice commands:

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The company's official blog states that "dramatic changes in technology are on the horizon, it's not enough just to describe in words how the future could look like - sometimes you have to show it and let people experience it for themselves."

The new lab, Microsoft demonstrates how to combine the technology of these touch screens the size of a wall, at work and home. In addition, it shows how such technology will facilitate future Hieino and improve them.

It is important to remember that the technology shown is not available to the market and will not be available in the near future, not least because of this technology is still very expensive. However, Microsoft has a product on the market today produced in collaboration with Samsung and is called Microsoft PixelSense.


 This product is actually a screen 40-inch TV with a built in, and it costs 8400 dollars (about 30,000 million).Admit it quite ironic that the company managed to put the first computer almost every house.

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MicroSoft PixelSense and Samsung on Giant Screen

 

Desktop computers with multi-touch and Windows Overview.Giant display with multi-touch technology are increasingly being used in business. They are used for presentations or to work together on documents. Behind almost always puts technology from Microsoft.With the touch-screen technology Microsoft has done little luck. Both smartphones with Windows Phone as well as the Surface tablets can not compete with the sales which the successful competition from Apple and Samsung. But maybe Microsoft is so successful if the device a couple of sizes bigger.Had imagined All things digital and then at Cebit 2008: Just as the personal computer "Surface" Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer first time in May 2007 on the D conference.Thanks to the sophisticated multi-touch technology was because in the first version multiple users working simultaneously. Amazed, you could see how the Microsoft representative applications on the multi-touch disk images made larger or smaller, turned back and herschob or reordered. Inside the high-tech table infrared LEDs and four cameras were competent to detect movements of hands or fingers.

 

Samsung presents market-ready modelEnd of 2011, Samsung introduced the then 101.6 centimeters in front (40-inch) multi-touch table "SUR40" with an enhanced version of Microsoft technology. Was the first version yet equipped with infrared sensors in the panel, used in Microsoft's Pixel Sense "SUR40" more than two million light-sensitive sensors. Each pixel is associated with such an infrared sensor thereby.Thus the device can also detect objects that are stored on disk. The user could for example put his card on the table and his opponent could this - provided you have appropriate software - recognize and transmit to their smartphones have.Up to 50 contacts recognize the device. The integrated computer is powered by AMD's Athlon II X2 dual-core processor, the operating system is Windows 7 The personal computer from Samsung costs according to the list price 8999 euro. Microsoft provides "SUR40" a software developer kit, so companies can develop custom applications for it.Now, from the giant screen with multi-touch technology is fast becoming a trend. Mainly in business they are used, for example, for presentations, or as a whiteboard for video conferencing, in which participants work simultaneously on a document. Most do not use Microsoft's elaborate pixel-sense technology, but capacitive touchscreens.Mondopad: display for presentations and video conferencingOne example is the Mondopad from Infocus. The 55-inch display with integrated core i5 machine and full-HD resolution, (1920 x 1080 pixels) can process two simultaneous touches. According to the manufacturer, the multi-touch display for presentations and video conferencing can be used.During a presentation, the user can highlight some specific items or mark. With video conferencing, any party may make changes to a shared document.Windows 7 Professional and Office 2010 preinstalled in Mondopad already. A webcam for video conferencing, and four microphones are installed. Since October 2012, a Mondopad version is available with Windows 8. The device costs about 6000 euros.

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Microsoft PixelSense Trading a Worlwide

 

And technological compatibility, showcasing the latest innovative solutions for interactive classrooms Smart (Interactive Smart Classroom Solutions) during the exhibition Gulf Educational Supplies and Solutions (GESS), which takes place this week at the Dubai World Trade Centre.


Within the concept of "providing new learning experiences," displays Samsung of its solutions and smart digital learning environments and dynamics that are currently applied in different parts of the Gulf region. Samsung's participation at Gulf Educational Supplies and Solutions within the framework of its vision of promoting education standards in the Gulf region and the latest paradigm shift in the education sector in the region, through the provision of teaching methods based on technology.

During the event, displays Samsung range of products and customizable integration within any learning environment to make the education process easier and more interactive and intelligent. These products include a tablet "Galaxy Tab" (GALAXY Tab), and notebooks (Notebook), and computers smart ATIV Smart PC Convertible to multiple devices, and the board interactive electronic E-Board, and displays mural Video Wall, and solutions signage digital Digital

On this occasion, said Madhav Narayan, Regional Director of institutions in the Gulf region at Samsung Gulf Electronics: "Samsung is committed to support education-based technology and focusing in turn bring about a radical transformation in the education sector in the region. Therefore was our vision is to achieve educational environments smart that promote aspects of innovation and creativity among future generations. For this purpose, it is necessary to exert all possible efforts to contribute to the enrichment of experience teaching and learning through the support of teachers and students with the right tools. therefore we are pleased to participate in the exhibition Gulf Educational Supplies and Solutions and offer a range of cutting-edge solutions that we Pttbhe in Gulf region to strengthen education services. "

 

Technology has received in the large concentration of schools in recent years, especially with the launch of the Ministry of Education in the United Arab Emirates for the education initiative smart 'leading. This initiative seeks to establish a unique learning environment in schools through the launch of 'smart classrooms', to take advantage of tablet computers and networks fourth generation (4G) high-speed means of acquiring knowledge.

On 3 February, Samsung announced the signing of a memorandum of understanding with the initiative "Education smart", to include a general framework benefit through the initiative of digital technologies leading to consensus and convergence technology from Samsung, to make educational environment world-class in the United Arab Emirates. The projects include Samsung other in this field in the UAE to provide learning solutions to Abu Dhabi Education Council, and the Council of Sharjah Education, Higher Colleges of Technology, and the College of Brighton (Brighton College), and schools GEMS, and Dubai Police Academy, along with the Supreme Education Council in Qatar, and the University of Bahrain, The Defense Ministry in Amman.

Samsung produce solutions to encourage students to learn from the successes and mistakes of each other. Intelligent software also allows teachers the possibility of developing more interactive lesson plans and attractive, which helps to provide a rich learning environment for students suppliers with the necessary skills to establish a knowledge-based economy.

Narayan added: "Using Samsung solutions, will become the schools and educational institutions are able to transform the traditional classroom to a smart learning environments."Exhibition Gulf Educational Supplies and Solutions in the Dubai World Trade Centre during the period from March 5 to 7, 2013.

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Microsoft Google Apple on Big Touch Screen PixelSense Technology

 

Interesting observations of the market IT shared New York Times reporter Nick Wingfield on his blog. He offered to look at the major players in the sector, especially Apple, Google and Microsoft, in terms of how often the representatives of these companies speak about the future, pishutVesti.

Proposal is accepted, let's think. So, Apple behaves surprisingly modest. A little poetry managers allow themselves only during the presentation of new products, and here we are talking about the future of rare, most of what Apple has already achieved so far and what will achieve a just released new. However, it should remember the iWatch, which at the moment can be called "the gadget of the future", of course, if the rumors of a flexible glass will be truthful. But you can not say that the Cupertino-based company provides daily public picture of the new reality, which will be possible thanks to this product.

Google is guesswork more often. Most ambitious "project of the future" were glasses Google Glass. Talk about how much this gadget will change our reality the company started several years ago. Parallel Google develops and promotes the idea of ​​an autopilot for cars, which is still too far from realization.

But the champion of the predictions - it is certainly, Microsoft. The company has been trying to guess which way the market will develop high technology, but, in contrast to Apple, which is finding the correct trend, "silently" produces a new type of device, such as iPad, Microsoft looks at things more globally. So, Tablet Surface in some way is an evolution of giant touchscreen table-PixelSense. And on the last presentation for elected representatives of journalists demonstrated a "House of the Future", which was a place and a huge screen on the newly acquired company Perceptive Pixel. To list examples of this futuristic thinking Microsoft can be very long.
 











The question is, which approach the current market conditions is the most successful. Apple in recent years have often surprised experts, creating a niche market from scratch and getting a nearly complete control over them. Former CEO Steve Jobs even called "the oracle." But in 2012-2013. We do not see the new truly revolutionary device, which scares many analysts.

Google benefits from the fact that working with a lot of companies, and therefore, can sell their technology as their own, not making a deal with M & A. However, this does not deprive the company of appetite for mergers and acquisitions. The problem is that the natural "iron" part of the business obviously weaker than the software created by Google, and thoughts of the future is not possible to change the situation.

As for Microsoft, the picture of the future has long been a hallmark, from which it can not and does not want to give up. Despite the fact that since the first Windows we rarely see a truly revolutionary device, some of the innovations developed by engineers to present the fantastic gadgets still find use in a real production company. Bill Gates and Steve Ballmer prefers to invest immediately in several versions of the "future" and offer these options to customers, while Apple and Google to impose its vision.

Perhaps the less said about the future of the company, the more chances it has to "bend" under her market today, but the less room for maneuver in the future remains.

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The future according to Microsoft PixelSense

 

Live, work, learn. It's a campaign slogan Microsoft argues that in five to ten years we will be surrounded by interactive displays. Revolution, whose elements are PixelSense Surface and will enable us to communicate with each other, work, entertainment in all conditions.

Unlike Google, who believe in "reality display from the user," Microsoft believes in the screens. In the recording, "Microsoft's Future Vision: Live, Work, Play" (Vision of the Future: live, learn work), which is the network went to see the world as a "five to ten years."

It is a full touch screen. Tablet, table (including the kitchen), the wall becomes interactive and "work together".

In Microsoft's vision does not matter what device we choose. We can start working on your smartphone with one hand to flip it on the wall. We cook dinner at the kitchen table looking at the ingredients list and talking with a virtual assistant who screen built into the wall to "see and hear" how we are doing.

Voice Recognition and facilities to complement touch by Microsoft interface. We can, for example, grab the hand of chilli and ask "kitchen wall" of what to do. In response we get rules, photos, videos.

Is five years today tablets will become part of every household? Are you all will be held by the tactile navigation? Or maybe it's just promoting Microsoft products: Tablet Surface interactive table and PixelSense (formerly called the Surface).

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HRW Co-operates with local business for students Providing a MicroSoft PixelSense

 


Besides all theory plays mainly the practical relevance of the Ruhr University West an important role. Therefore, students could participate in a project HRW week in a creative competition, which is focused on the development of concepts for the so-called multi-touch tables. The competition was organized by Prof. Dr. Stefan Geisler, Director of Studies in the program man-machine interaction, and applied computer science, organized and supported by the Essen-based company aaitechnologies GmbH. The winning groups presented their results today and have received sponsored vouchers worth a total of 900 euros.

Almost every show that has something to do with technology, you can now known as multi-touch tables, which can be operated by hand, fingers, elbows or other moving objects. With multi-touch screens is not a normal computer, but they live by their unusual user interface. Actions can not only - like the iPhone - with two to four fingers to perform, but there are also several people can simultaneously work on multiple pages at a table, because the number of points of contact, which evaluates the device imposes no limits. Furthermore, exchanges of Pixel Sense - a product from Samsung - in joint development with Microsoft, the detection of individual objects that are placed on the table.

The role of students in the creative competition HRW now was that you should develop in the light of the characteristics of the medium, and in view of the software applications and innovative interaction concepts for multi-touch tables. For this, they brought André rollercoaster Meier, Managing Director at aaitechnologies, first verify that the device closer and asked them one also available on loan. In the next step, participants should then develop their ideas and put them into an application design. Came out seven different project ideas. The winning works were presented on Friday and won the first five winning works with vouchers worth 500 euros, 250 euros and 50 euros three times. The works ranged from a recipe consultant at the supermarket, a HRW learning and library system to a new application for traffic planning. The winner was Stephan Lucka, Student in the first half human-computer interaction to put up with his idea, such a table in the supermarket. The table recognizes it and displays it on stored food matching recipes or nutritional values.
 

"Multi-touch tables are not in terms of user rudimentary compared to conventional machines. They live on exciting applications that take into account the unusual operation. The development of application and interaction concepts therefore requires a high degree of creativity ", Prof. Dr. Stefan Geisler, a professor of computer science at the Institute Ruhr University West. "The more I am pleased with the good results, because the students have developed with a lot of perseverance and originality sometimes very convincing concepts. It's not easy to lift such a project in the allotted time, if you have to do is become familiar with the technology and the software, "said Professor Geisler further.



André also rollercoaster Meier, Managing Director of aaitechntechnologies is pleased with the results: "In addition to the fun of a project with students makes it easy to us but it was also about to deepen the contact with the HRW total. In our area, the project developer and designer for technical projects in the field of infrastructure and networks, the young talent is an important thing. We are always looking for talented and gain such projects simply offer a good opportunity to get to know each other. "

The creative competition began in late November 2012 with a term of a total of seven weeks. On 15 January ranged seven project groups their work. The evaluation of projects was jointly taken by Professor Geisler and André Meier rollercoaster based on criteria such as originality, degree of innovation, scope of the concept and use of the special features of the table.

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MicroSoft PixelSense make the technology experience

 

Large corporations are among the customers: Markus Ernst Oeller won with his company the MSM LN-founders price.Lubeck. The CEO is too busy and always on the go. Time to celebrate the success of the LN-founders of competition due to his team, he still had not. Twelve hours after the ceremony and sat Oeller Markus Ernst (31) on the plane to Munich. On Monday morning, but that is now made up: In the bar room of the Media Docks, the spacious 1300 - square-foot office for More Success Marketing (MSM), he wants nachfeiern the price at a breakfast with all employees. "I consider this award as a very great compliment. Will now be seen by many, what we "make Oeller said yesterday during a visit to the LN-editors. "For customers, we have told the price, it's like a kind of TUV seal of approval."

Already on Friday showed a screen at the entrance of the current MSM offices LN-title page with the winning photo. Here in the bar room sitting together programmers and marketing experts and work on the projects. In a conference room hang two 80-inch screens, cameras are mounted on tripods. "This is our virtual classroom," says Jan Tauchnitz (38). "From here, conduct employee training, which can track the students live at home on their computers," says the MSM staff.

Training - virtual or directly with customers - are a mainstay of the company, which was founded in 2009 and today has already 26 permanent employees in Lübeck. If we add all the coaches in the field, there are even 55 people. Customers of training include Bayer, Roche and MAN.

The other main area of ​​business is the development of very specific software on behalf of customers. Programmers of MSM have developed the presentation for the big-screen table that stands in the new Niederegger Cafe. "The idea is that customers will be invited to inform themselves playfully about the company," says programmer Dirk Baltinowitz (44). Many people at the same time as a giant phone with your finger touch can view videos or photos.


  

 Niederegger is a relatively small customer says Oeller. The large, these are Microsoft, Samsung, and Hochtief. MSM has for Microsoft customers, the new Windows closer to the eighth "We asked ourselves how we can make the technology experience, and have developed this form of presentation on the so-called Pixel Sense tables," says the company's founder. "Our approach is that we want to explain to customers how it works, and want to show retailers how they can sell a product better," says Oeller. It had the advantage of MSM that we unite the worlds of programming and marketing.

The construction company Hochtief you have about proposed making its trade fairs effective - and also because MSM ran an open door. "The building is getting technical. Even as employees need to be trained, and the customers should be well informed of what the company makes great news. "

Oeller came nine years ago from Bavaria to the north, worked at an advertising agency in Timmendorfer beach. But he wanted to go independent. In 2009 he founded MSM - only with equity.

The first office was quickly outgrowing. The 2013 Oeller wants to use for consolidation. "The structures must keep pace with the rapid growth," he says. And not only his company has grown, and his three year old daughter, who was born when MSM was being started.The 5,000 euro prize money will Oeller invest in server technology for "virtual classrooms". When award sponsor Gregory Wintersteller He wants to thank particularly: "I think it's great that he has something set up."

 

Presentations in electronic markets

7 Electronics Markets in Germany MSM has equipped with special demonstration areas - in Hamburg, Munich, Aachen, Leipzig, Gutersloh and twice in Berlin. Under the title "Networked Worlds" the Dräger Group presented to each 70 square meters, the new operating system Windows 8 from Microsoft. To present the MSM experts use large screen tables (Pixel Sense tables).

SIT and Games shipyard More Success Marketing (MSM) has two subsidiaries, both of which are also based in Lübeck. SIT stands for "Solutions for Innovative Technology", two staff members working to integrate various new technologies into an overall system. Games in the company yard develop seven staff browser games. The first game is loud MSM founder Markus Ernst Oeller come on the market in June.

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