Windows Surface

Microsoft Surface Draws Interest, if Not Buyers

PC World (Free subscription) | 7 hours ago

The tabletop computer interface has found some niche uses and continues to mature, Microsoft tells developers.

• Microsoft Surface Rises at PDC - Technologizer

Surface Toolkit for Windows Touch

Public Sector Developer Weblog (Free subscription) | yesterday

NOTE: This was cross posted from here . Robert Levy from the Surface team and Anson Tsao from the WPF team gave a great session on: Multi-Touch on Microsoft Surface and Windows 7 for .NET Developers The session is definitely worth watching if you are interested in building multi-touch apps on Windows 7. In the session, they announced the Surface Toolkit for Windows Touch which is a set of “Controls,...

Windows Surface Scanner Finds Bad Hard Drive Sectors [Downloads]

Lifehacker (Free subscription) | 11/20/2009

Windows: When your computer starts acting hinky and spitting out error messages, it's hard to know exactly where to begin to diagnose the problem. Windows Surface Scanner gives you a place to start. This free utility takes a look at your hard drives and ferrets out any physical errors it finds, so you know what might be causing random crashes or system flakiness. Windows Surface Scanner won't fix...

Microsoft Surface Gets Closer To Becoming Mainstream [Microsoft Surface SDK Avaialability Confirmed]

Thoughts from the Sidelines (Free subscription) | 11/20/2009

Software developers who want to come up with their own software for Microsoft’s touch-based Surface technology can now do so for free, as the Microsoft Surface SDK is now free for all at the Microsoft Download Center. Surface was announced by Microsoft at the D5 conference in 2007, and is aimed ...

Microsoft Surface SDK Now Available

Gadget Venue dot com (Free subscription) | 11/20/2009

Microsoft [MSFT] have now released the Microsoft Surface Software Development Kit (SDK) for all who want it. The download is 144.2MB in size and can be downloaded right now. The SDK comes with no price tag and allows anybody with the skill and interest to create applications for Microsoft Surface computers. If you do not have [...] Microsoft Surface SDK Now Available

Developers slow to take to Microsoft Surface

Computerworld UK (Free subscription) | 11/20/2009

Microsoft's Surface touch computer may be generating more oohs and ahs than some of the company's other recent technologies, but the product has yet to generate rabid interest among programmers.

• Developers slowly rising to Microsoft's Surface - InfoWorld
• Developers slowly rising to Microsoft's Surface - Computer World

Microsoft Surface SDK available to everyone

TechConnect Magazine (Free subscription) | 11/20/2009

At its Professional Developers Conference 2009, Microsoft has officially announced the truly general availability of Surface SDK, the package required by developers to build applications for the multi-touch device . Previously, the SDK was offered for free only to partners and MSDN members but now practically anyone can get the software and start making Surface apps on their PC, but only if it runs...

Microsoft Surface SDK opens doors to all

Arkytek Ltd :: Blog (Free subscription) | 11/20/2009

Having made the dev kit for the Surface available to select partners in June (a tiny bit late), Microsoft has now officially let the software loose for all and sundry to explore, experiment, and hopefully innovate with. Whereas Surface Developer units have been required till now to successfully design and test an app, the SDK [...]

Microsoft Opens Surface "Interactive Table" SDK for Free

Fast Company (Free subscription) | 11/20/2009

Everyone loves Microsoft interactive table, Surface--just check out our list of killer Surface apps to see why. So it's good news that this week Redmond announced it would be opening up the Surface software developer kit, or SDK, to the public. It will also be freely available through Surface.com . To celebrate the occasion, Microsoft announced the winner of their developer contest , which was an...

Microsoft Surface SDK now available to all

Ars Technica (Free subscription) | 11/19/2009

At Microsoft's Professional Developers Conference 2009 ( PDC09 ), the Microsoft Surface team announced the broad availability of the Microsoft Surface Software Development Kit (SDK) Workstation Edition. It has actually been available on the Microsoft Download Center (144.2MB) since earlier this month, but only now has it been made official. Developers interested in the Microsoft Surface can now easily...

• Surface SDK now available to all - Shane Morris: UXB

Microsoft Delivers Surface Workstation SDK

eWeek (Free subscription) | 11/19/2009

Microsoft has seen significant momentum in the adoption of its Surface computer system and software over the past year. In addition, the company released a software development kit for developers to use on their PCs to simulate the Surface environment. - LOS ANGELES -- Microsoft has seen significant momentum in the adoption of its Surface computer system and software over the past year. Brad Carpenter,...

Touch controls floated by Infragistics for Microsoft's Surface

The Register (Free subscription) | 11/18/2009

Computational fiddling A trial set of controls to build touch-based applications with input from different users on Microsoft's Surface have been released by interface specialist Infragistics.…

Infragistics Debuts Community Technology Preview for Microsoft(R) Surface(R)

PR News Wire (Free subscription) | 11/18/2009

PRINCETON, N.J. and ELSTREE, United Kingdom, Nov. 18 /PRNewswire/ -- Infragistics, a world leader in user interface (UI) development tools and experts in the User Experience (UX) market, today announced a Microsoft Surface Community Technology Preview (CTP) to showcase the power and simplicity of developing multi-touch applications for this extraordinary new platform. Containing customized NetAdvantage...

Infragistics Debuts Community Technology Preview for Microsoft(R) Surface(R)

Red Orbit (Free subscription) | 11/18/2009

PRINCETON, N.J. and ELSTREE, United Kingdom, Nov.

The Microsoft Surface Is All Kinds Of Awesome – Best Twitter Client?

Fleck.com Blog (Free subscription) | 11/17/2009

Here at the Microsoft PDC event, there are about a dozen Microsoft Surface computers spread out around the center, open for anyone to sit down and play with. Put simply, they are nearly endless fun. They are currently running an application that streams photos and tweets that contain a specific hashagged tweets in a scrolling fashion [...]

A Look at VPlay on Microsoft Surface

simoncarl | 11/12/2009

Stuart Taylor is a researcher at MSR Cambridge and in his spare time he likes to mix bits as a VJ. Microsoft Surface, MSR Cambridge, Stuart Taylor http://on10.net/blogs/larry/A-Look-at-VPlay-on-Microsoft-Surface/