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Today at the PDC, Rick Rashid, senior vice president of Microsoft Research, showed developers how Microsoft is applying software’s power to tough technological and societal challenges.

Rashid announced the limited release of the first software development toolkit (SDK) for Microsoft Surface, new features for Worldwide Telescope, and the Microsoft CCR and DSS Toolkit 2008, which will make it easier to develop loosely coupled concurrent and distributed applications.

Advances in software hold the key to progress in multiple fields,” said Rashid. “The modern world generates massive data sets – online search, astronomical phenomena, the climate, particle physics, and the human genome, to name a few areas. With software, we can capture, analyze, and make sense of this data to help combat global warming, develop life-saving vaccines, and enrich our kids’ education.

Microsoft Surface

Being reported in 2007, Surface is a pretty cool technology based on vista, multi touch sensors is pretty nifty which I have liked ever since and today after the availability of its’ SDK, me along with developer alike will be particularly happy to make cool application based on it.Here is what the SDK gives you.

•Direct interaction: the ability to execute commands through gesture or touch, rather than via a mouse or keyboard.

•Multi –touch: the ability to manipulate multiple on-screen items at once. Surface can read more than 52 individual touches.

•Multi-user: new collaborative computing scenarios made possible by Surface’s horizontal form factor.

•Object recognition: digital responses to objects placed on Surface – functionality that will ultimately permit the transfer of digital content.

World Wide Telescope

Developed by Microsoft Research, WorldWide Telescope is a “Web browser for the sky”, bringing together images from the best ground- and space-based telescopes so people can explore the cosmos from their PC screen. Since its launch in May 2008, more than one million people have downloaded the web application. Several new features are now available for WorldWide Telescope, including a 3-D Solar System, more than 1,000 new images, and a tool that allows people to upload and share their own images of space. Existing users will be prompted to download the new features the next time they open the program. Others can download WorldWide Telescope at www.worldwidetelescope.org.

Microsoft Robotics

The Microsoft Robotics Framework, is fantastic upcoming technology which will definitely enable us in the future of enabling customized robots and machines alike for either fun or personal benefit. You can check out more about the robotic framework at www.microsoft.com/robotics.

I believe that the most innovation that Microsoft does come out from the Microsoft research centre and I believe if nothing else is left with Microsoft to compete, I can strongly say Research products can definitely give a boost to the Microsoft image. What’s Your say?

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