Tag Archives: video

Take a peak at Windows 8

Posted by on June 2, 2011 No comments

Microsoft posted a video about the user experience in the coming version of Windows, Windows 8:

It is of course very early to draw conclusions out of this, but these are mine:

  • we need a design room like this for our team
  • it might be the end of “Windows” as we know it, because the only windows you see in the movie are the ones in the legacy applications
  • touch will become more and more important. Imagine this demo with a mouse and a keyboard…

The full press release can be found on the Microsoft site.

E-learning in 1927

Posted by on May 16, 2011 1 comment

Via the Mobile Cowboys site, I found this video. It explains the use of a rotary telephone, and seems to be created in 1927.

It is interesting to compare this to the e-learning material we create nowadays. Especially the speed (or lack of speed) is quite surprising. And  it is good to realise that skills that we take for granted, are not necessarily “obvious” and sometimes still need explanation.

The (near) future of Productivity according to Microsoft

Posted by on March 16, 2011 No comments

On a regular basis, Microsoft produces nice videos about their view on Information Worker Productivity in the future. This video shows the very near future: all products shown in the video are available as far as I can see. We are only waiting until companies implement them all, and until information workers start acquiring the competences to work with these tools in an efficient way…

User interfaces in the future

Posted by on October 14, 2009 No comments

Is this the way we will work with computers in the future? Multi-touch gestures are not new, but this kind of pushes it to the limit:

We are getting pretty close to Minority Report. More info on http://10gui.com. Thanks to Gert for the tip.

SharePoint in Plain English

Posted by on August 24, 2009 No comments

The people from CommonCraft have created a new video about SharePoint. If you want to learn what it is and what it can do for you in 3 minutes, this is the way to go: