Microsoft does away with the ‘windows live’ brand

Microsoft has in the night today announced that it abolishes the introduced six years ago, Windows Live brand umbrella. For its Internet and cloud services will continue to establish a single-line and naming.

In an article on the ‘ Building Windows 8 Blog ‘have Windows chief Steven Sinofsky and Windows Live Deputy Chris Jones announced that Microsoft regarding the upcoming launch of the next Microsoft operating system to perform Windows 8 is a simplification and unification of its various brands is.

Cloud services to Windows 8 and Windows Phone ( HD version )

Jones starts by referring to the figures and the success of online services from Microsoft, but admits that it had failed to meet the expectations of a “truly connected experience.” It is located mainly on the fact that the services and apps on Windows Live versions of the Microsoft operating system built that were simply not designed for cloud offerings, but most for online updates.

Microsoft Kinect used to playing the organ

The fact that the motion control Kinect various purposes and can be used not only to play, the composer Chris Vik has proven. With its own software, it could control an organ.

The Australia-based composer has in this respect its own software called Kinectar underway. This made it possible for him to control an organ in the Town Hall of Melbourne in conjunction with Kinect and movements.

Microsoft Kinect used to playing an organ ( HD version )

The said instrument was built in 1929 and received in the 90′s support for MIDI files. Kinectar with the motion controller from Microsoft for a MIDI controller is transformed.

About his project of composer and developer Chris Vik informs in a published over YouTube video. In it, he can see amongst others, by the singer Elise Richards in action.

In early February, Microsoft has a Kinect package specially made for use on Windows operating systems. In addition to the release of Kinect for Windows at that time was the stable version of the programming environment (SDK) introduced in version 1.0.

Visual Studio might be able to create native applications for iPhone

Microsoft could give an unexpected blow in a few days, the annual developer event of its main competitor, Apple. In fact, it could appear alongside Steve Ballmer Steve Jobs to introduce new features in Visual Studio 2010 to enable the Microsoft suite of programming to create native applications for iPhone OS.

Thus, Apple would gain a whole sector of developers could create applications for the iPhone without having to stop using Microsoft’s suite, thus also a way that can be scheduled for the iPhone OS without necessarily having to buy a computer Apple (now, if you want to program an application for the iPhone OS have to use XCode on Mac OS X, unless you use some alternatives such as Gamesalad ).

Microsoft has been present in other Apple keynotes , such as demonstrations of the earlier version of Internet Explorer for Mac OS X or the same version of the Office suite. But of course, the fact that Microsoft is able to present tools for developers to create applications for the competition is another sign that something is changing.