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Is Microsoft trying to capture photography market?
Scobleizer — ... This week Thomas Hawk (my favorite “Flickr-famous” photographer) and me will join a bunch of others on Microsoft’s campus up in Redmond, Washington, to attend a pro photography summit that Microsoft is hosting. Why is Microsoft hosting a bunch of professional photographers? Is it to kick off Microsoft’s Pro Photo Tools, Photosynth ( which got me, in 2006, to say it was the demo of the year), or DeepZoom? Maybe. After all, these things are really cool and photographers should flock to them in droves. ...

The power of a good demo
Scobleizer — ... take tons of classes for free and they are usually pretty good and aimed at non-passionate users who are trying to do something specific with their machines. Question: have you seen a Microsoft advertisment lately where Microsoft talks about what their machines can do? Have you seen an advertisment that shows you their WorldWide Telescope, for instance (that is still my favorite demo of 2008)? Or Microsoft’s Deep Zoom? Or Microsoft’s Surface? Or Microsoft Photosynth (my favorite demo of 2006)? These are all wonderful technologies ...

Microsoft’s Vision
Geek In Disguise — ... It includes the words magic – I think it was Bill Gates who coined “the magic of software” phrase and it’s something we need to get back to our roots on. Right now I feel Apple does magic better than us at times – though Photosynth, ...

University of Washington and Microsoft collaborates on 3D photo viewer
D' Technology Weblog — ... The collaborative research team from the University of Washington and Microsoft demonstrated of what can be achieved with “Photosynth” intuitively processing the abundance of digital images shared on the web. Th two had only two years ago in 2006 published their paper “ ...