Sugestão Rasgos de Scoble. Este é um inferno de uma tecnologia da pesquisa de Microsoft de que eu penso terei um impacto enorme em como os amadores e os hobbyists escrevem a música. O protótipo da tecnologia e do software é chamado MySong.

Em um nutshell, o software grava seu cantar (preferivelmente no tune) através de um microfone, e gera sistematicamente um acompanhamento instrumental para sua canção. A qualidade é mesmo comparável com um accompanist profissional, não mencionar o custo e o tempo envolvidos.

Se você não me acreditar, tenha um olhar neste 5 rápidos programa demostrativo minucioso com cargas de exemplos práticos.

A tecnologia foi desenvolvida por Ian Simon da universidade de Washington na colaboração com Dan Morris e Summit Basu da pesquisa de Microsoft. Publicaram todos seus pesquisa e métodos em um papel (Pdf) do mesmo nome ao presente no Conferência 2008 do CHI em um par dos meses em Italy.

Sem começar em demasiado detalhe, a tecnologia usa Modelo estatístico escondido de Markov qual foi `treinado' preprocessing uma base de dados de quase 300 folhas musicais da ligação. As folhas vêm de uma variedade das fontes, dos genres e da popularidade a

A minha surpresa, Conferência de TED os organizers uploaded rapidamente a apresentação que grava de Anúncio de Microsoft de sua tecnologia WorldWide do telescópio showcased não mais de 12 horas há, quando no contraste, videos geralmente são feitos somente disponível em linha após um ano ou dois do exclusivity. Recordar, participantes paga diversos milhares dos dólares para ir a esta conferência - um de, se não a mais melhor conferência no mundo, assim que para fazer uma exceção para esta apresentação particular for realmente algo.

Ah, product feedback surveys, what will we ever do without you? You share your most intimate secrets and future product ideas with complete strangers all in the name of marketing research. Thankfully Microsoft surveys are no exception.

An anonymous tipster pointed out to me in a recent (private) Windows feedback survey sent out by Microsoft, asked how often users use the Start menu search functionality, was a screenshot highlighting the aforementioned feature but not of Windows Vista and certainly not anything we’ve ever seen before.

The most logical explanation would be of course, this is a mockup of Windows 7.

If that is indeed the case, which is impossible to prove I might add, then we’re witnessing a number of changes from the Start menu in Vista today and even the Start menu from the leaked build of Windows 7 Milestone 1.

Notably the Start pearl/button/orb rests in a curved corner that is darker to the rest of the taskbar which is now considerably more transparent and white. And quite possibly the taskbar is “double height” by default. Some applications in the start menu also have a cascade button on its right, leading me to believe

It’s not very often you find a job advertisement which doesn’t tantalize your curiosity, so it’s only to fair to take the following with a grain of salt. This Microsoft job posting for a “user experience designer” was published on the 23rd of February 2008.

The focus of the job description refers to a startup project inside Microsoft called Tangram. What they aim to achieve with the technology is intriguing at the least.

The Tangram team provides an opportunity to work on the engineering challenges of an Internet scale services technology coupled with 3D interactive experiences that have finally become possible due to ultrahigh resolution screens and high performance processors. We are changing what people expect from the Internet by delivering entirely new ways to see, interact with and use data of deep interest to consumers and business people. This is a project with high visibility in Microsoft. We are assembling a team of world class engineers with very strong analytical and technical skills. We are looking for people who can define the problem, come up with a solution, and implement it. End to end. Ship it in 6 months.

Tangram is a startup product team with the highest levels

One of the two big Microsoft news out of the Game Developers Conference today of course is the extension of XNA Game Studio to the Zune. It means now with one development framework and toolset, game developers can make the relatively simple transition between three platforms to publish their games on - the PC, XBOX 360 and the Zune.

You might have seen pictures on Engadget and Joystiq, but nothing beats full-motion video. Dan Fernandez has uploaded a short snippet of the Microsoft keynote with Chris Satchell showing off a game demo on the Zune. Debunking some of the fears it wouldn’t play well, the controls looks pretty intuitive and the graphic are smooth as well.

In the small spectrum of software developers who writes compatible software with 64-bit versions of Windows, you’d expect Microsoft to be the last to drop the ball. Today, Microsoft’s Windows Live Messenger team did exactly just that and dropped compatibility for 64-bit versions of Windows XP and Windows Server 2003.

A reasonable person might be led to believe Windows Live Messenger 8.5 is somehow incompatible with those versions of Windows. Unfortunately, reason seems to be out of the equation.

As part of the automatic rollout of the final version of Messenger 8.5, Jura of the Windows Live Messenger team announced on the blog today,

A special note for those of you running Messenger 8.5 Beta on Windows XP 64-bit or Windows 2003 Server: the final version of Messenger 8.5 will not install or run on your OS. We don’t want you to get stuck out in the cold so you will not receive the mandatory upgrade to the final version. However, these operating systems won’t be supported by future Messenger versions.

It’s almost as if someone held a gun to their head to announce this because as a matter of fact, the final version of Messenger 8.5