Linked by Thom Holwerda on Sat 7th Nov 2009 00:24 UTC
Whether you like Microsoft or not, the Redmond giant does have one thing going for it: the company's research division. Working together with several universities and other institutions, Microsoft Research works on the soft and hardware of the future, ranging from research operating systems to insanely cool things like what Microsoft's chief research and strategy officer Craig Mundie showed off during the Microsoft College Tour '09 (more videos).
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Rotating: yes.
However, dude: zooming and panning with your eyes. That would be a salve to quite a few Window Manager conundrums: you look at what you want to have the largest size and most detail. Zooming interfaces are awesome, but difficult to balance controls of, if you allow multiple windows at a time.
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2007-12-26
I don't see any use for those kind of things. For example typing is much faster and doesn't strain you as much then writing by hand. Also for some reason Microsoft seems to have an unhealthy obsession for rotating and zooming things. Most tasks I know don't evolve rotating and zooming things, maybe in the future everybody is rotating and zooming away like crazy on floating sheets of glass but for now we need the precision and speed of a keyboard and mouse is stead of making gestures to our screen.
I'll admit my muscles hurt a little from the Mexican flu but if I try to copy the gestures he made to zoom the windmill, my arms start to tire pretty quick, don't want to do that all day.