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Leaked Microsoft Document Provides Roadmap For Major Products


Leaked images show release dates for Internet Explorer 10, Microsoft Office 15.



An apparent roadmap showing Microsoft’s plans for future products has been leaked. The images show Microsoft’s release plans for numerous products, including Internet Explorer, Windows Phone, and Office 15.
The images were posted to Twitter last week by Maarten Visser, who apparently got them from Microsoft’s Partner Network. The first shows information about upcoming versions of Microsoft Office and related software. According to the chart, Office 15 will be available in beta sometime in the middle of this year, with public availability coming in early 2013.
Microsoft Office Roadmap
The second image shows some data about Windows-related products, including Internet Explorer. It looks like Internet Explorer 10 is set for a summer release, coinciding loosely with the beta release of Office 15.
Microsoft Windows Roadmap
Interestingly, though the Windows 8 developer preview and the end of service for Windows XPare noted, the release date for Windows 8 is absent. The developer preview of Windows 8 was released late last year, while the consumer preview launched in February. There is no official word on a release date, though speculation has centered on the late third quarter.
[H/T: ZDNet]

Microsoft Demonstrates Low-Latency Touchscreen


The low-lag display means on-screen objects "feel like a real, physical object"



Microsoft Demonstrates Low-Latency Touchscreen
The Applied Sciences Group at Microsoft posted the video below earlier this month showing off a laboratory test system that has a touchscreen with only 1 millisecond of latency.
Paul Dietz, the Assistant Director for Microsoft Applied Sciences, narrates the video and talks about what this technology might mean for Microsoft and touchscreen users. “What we’ve done with this research is set something of a bar for where we’d like to head over the next decade.”
Dietz says current touch systems have about 100 milliseconds of delay. As any tablet or smartphone user can attest, this means it can take a while for the screen to register where your finger is when you move it quickly. Drawing and dragging are the areas where this is most noticeable.
“And, in fact, if you were playing with the real set-up you would notice a real perceptual cliff: that this really starts to feel like a real, physical object,” said Dietz. “So we’d like to see systems decrease their latency down to the 1 millisecond level. And then, you start to actually have things that feel like you’re moving a real, physical object.”
Dietz mentioned this concept of on-screen objects feeling “real” multiple times in the video, but I’m a bit skeptical that things will ever feel “real” through a pane of glass. Although, combine this with Nokia’s new patent for haptic feedback tattoos and we might actually be feeling individual grains of sand through our screens within the decade!

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