Microsoft technologies of the future

The latest update to Microsofts Center for Information Work, located on the Redmond campus, includes technology like StraTech, an enormous monitor that partly wraps around users, as CIW group product manager Tom Gruver demonstrates. Microsoft engineers a

Gruver stands next to a new form-factor known as DigiDesk. It is a touch-sensitive workspace that demonstrates advanced visualization and modeling of information, smarter integration of metadata and more sophisticated pattern recognition.

An example of Microsofts vision for next-generation work spaces. It is used to show how future software will seamlessly integrate information across all technology devices.

The Team Room, Microsofts vision of the conference or meeting room of the future, has a new collaboration tool known as Roundtable, which was incubated in the CIW and is now under development in a product group for commercialization. Roundtable has a 360

A simulated pharmacy in the CIW demonstrates how innovative software can be used to increase the reliability of authentication and simplify the authentication process for end users, whether they are logging on to their corporate network or picking up a pr