라스베가스에 있는 마이크로소프트의 혼합 2008년 회의에 것을, Hachamovitch 광선 Ozzie 떨어져 걷어차기 위하여는, Scott Gutherie 및 학장은 그것의 첫번째 날에 사건에 2개의 요점의 첫번째 접대했다. 요점에게서 찍힌 사진의 slideshow는 여기에서 있다. 기술적인 어려움 때문에, 실제로 나가 하고 싶었던 liveblog를 할 수 없었다. 어쩌면 다음 시간.

배치 후에 새로운 Internet Explorer 8 beta 1개의 툴바의 screenshot 어제, 나는 얼마나에 관하여 넓게 넋두리할 것을 (수직으로) 툴바가 된지 많은 사람들이 들었다. 이해할 수 있 저것은 많은 사용자에게 내용 및 아닙니다 자체를 위해 할 수 있기 때문에 브라우저가 만큼 화소를 정진해야 하기 때문에 관심사이었다.

가정은 만큼 툴바가 두번 있는 IE8에서 IE7가 대로 온다, 이렇게 부동산 만큼 스크린을 두번 채택한 결론에 오는 것이 완전하게 적당하. 나가 공용영역의 사이즈가 바꿔졌었기 심상을 배치했었기 때문에, 저것이 참으로 사실인지 증명하는 것은 곤란했다.

에 반응하여 나는 2개의 브라우저 공용영역의 이 원래 크기 나란하게 비교했다.

(남겨둔) Internet Explorer 8 beta 1개의 툴바. (맞은) Internet Explorer 7 툴바 [[with]] 가능하게 되는 연결 메뉴.

(남겨둔) Internet Explorer 8 beta 1개의 툴바. (맞은) Internet Explorer 7 툴바 없이 가능하게 되는 연결 메뉴.

당신이 볼 수 있던 대로, IE8 공용영역은 IE7 공용영역 보다는 벌거벗게 무엇이든 더 크다. 정확한 다른 것 단지 8개의 화소만이다. 탭은 너무 높은 33px에 동일하다.

첫째로, 뒤에 오는 screenshot에 관하여 약간 낱말. 완전하게 명확하기 위하여는, 이것은 이다 아닙니다 원래 심상. The window and its contents (address bar, tab, window title, page content) have been heavily recomposited to better fit in a smaller image size as well as to obscure any traces where this might have come from. I did not take the screenshot nor do I have access to the beta (so no emails please but do send bribes regardless). Having said that, I can easily vouch for its authenticity.

It appears Internet Explorer 8 doesn’t stray far from the new hybrid menu/toolbar interface of Internet Explore 7, not in Beta 1 at least. Contrary to the ribbon-interface speculation, I think after the rather drastic transition from IE6 to IE7, a more consistent user interface is a good thing as users won’t waste any time relearning how to use a browser.

From top to bottom, the address bar now boasts a new UI trick being able to highlight just the domain in the URL. It’s a very insignificant change but its something that you wish you had thought of. It’s a smart thing to do because

It is so hard to get high-resolution lossless screenshots of unreleased software these days. In the meantime, this extremely compressed JPEG of the Internet Explorer 8 installation window will have to do. This is apparently what beta testers will be getting in the first release, as (super excited) Mithun Dhar kindly shows us.

The only difference between this screen and the previous IE7 Beta install experience is in fact just the number. That means either someone was smart enough not to reinvent the wheel, or just lazy. Meanwhile this good new for Windows XP users because it looks like Internet Explorer 8 will still be supported. Unless that’s one convincing Windows Vista visual style.

Cue Scoble tears. This is one hell of a technology from Microsoft Research that I think will have a huge impact on how amateurs and hobbyists write music. The technology and software prototype is called MySong.

In a nutshell, the software records your singing (preferably in tune) through a microphone, and it systematically generates an instrumental accompaniment for your song. The quality is even comparable with a professional accompanist, not to mention the cost and time involved.

If you don’t believe me, have a look at this quick 5-minute demo with loads of practical examples.

The technology was developed by Ian Simon from University of Washington in collaboration with Dan Morris and Summit Basu from Microsoft Research. They’ve published all of their research and methods in a paper (PDF) of the same name to present at the CHI Conference 2008 in a couple of months in Italy.

Without getting into too much detail, the technology uses the Hidden Markov statistical model which has been ‘trained’ by preprocessing a database of nearly 300 musical lead sheets. The sheets come from a variety of sources, genres and popularity to

To my surprise, the TED conference organizers has swiftly uploaded the presentation recording from Microsoft’s announcement of their WorldWide Telescope technology showcased no more than 12 hours ago, when in contrast, videos are usually only made available online after a year or two of exclusivity. Remembering, attendees pay several thousands of dollars to go to this conference - one of, if not the best conference in the world, so to make an exception for this particular presentation is really something.