My brother-in-law is a Microsoft Project Manager, so I hear more than I should.
While the Team Manager product is long gone, when I was the General Manager of Microsoft Project, we incorporated this feature into the Microsoft Project Server.
Update: It's actually a Microsoft Research project that uses a Kinect for a Windows camera combined with a projector.
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Microsoft announced Project Natal, a new controller-free video gaming system, which reads a players body movements with cameras and mimics them with avatars on screen, will be available for purchase by the holiday season this year.
It can be a pain when implementing collaboration solutions like Microsoft SharePoint and Project Server.
In June Microsoft led a project in Tirupur to roll out an order-tracking application that knitters could access over the Web by text messaging.
From the introduction of user-friendly labels like "My Computer, " through the abortive "Microsoft Bob" project (an attempt to build an extra, easy-to-understand layer on top of Windows -- an interface for an interface, if you will), the software giant has been waging a war to get the geekiness out of its operating system.
Tecmo expects shipments to reach a million copies and is working on another project with Microsoft.
Maybe there is now a Manhattan Project inside Microsoft to productize its own technology into a Siri competitor.
The Microsoft example is a project that came out of the test group.
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Microsoft folded the KIN project in late June following weak sales.
My daughter and I recently had a great opportunity to work together on a school project where Microsoft Dynamics CRM played an integral role.
Lewin figures something over 500, 000 people are touched by the network, not including the 10 million students globally who consume free versions of Microsoft products through a project called DreamSpark.
Pure hardware attributes only get you so far, and judging by the amount of integration time that went into this project, Microsoft would be doing itself a huge disservice to launch anything even close to not smooth-as-butter.
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The basis for the platform centers around research related to Microsoft's Singularity project, and envisions a distributed environment where applications, documents, and connectivity are blurred in a cloud-computing phantasmagoria which can be run natively or hosted across multiple systems.
While there is no doubt certifications open the door and improve your chances of getting an interview, official recognitions are not the silver bullet, says Wayne Botha, a project manager with two designations: Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer (MCSE) and Project Management Professional (PMP).
After the KIN project folded, Microsoft reorganized its mobile efforts to concentrate on its Windows Phone 7 operating system, which is slated for release later this year.
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Developers at Microsoft have revived the dream through Project Austin, a Windows 8 app based around the visual concept of a notebook.
Most of the Chinese companies that Microsoft has enlisted in the Venus project have the technology and resources to introduce such a product on their own.
That's the goal of a project under development by Microsoft 's (nasdaq: MSFT - news - people ) Media Presence Research Group at the Bay Area Research Center in San Francisco.
Morris says the Microsoft effort is currently just a research project, and in its earliest commercial incarnations would likely be a simple controller for a music player or cell phone.
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Among the most powerful buildings are the Experience Music Project in Seattle, built for Microsoft billionaire Paul Allen, which features a series of brightly coloured pavilions with a monorail running through the centre.
To improve technology access, Microsoft also announced the deployment of a pilot project with the Kenyan Ministry of Information and Communications and Kenyan Internet service provider Indigo Telecom Ltd. to deliver low-cost, high-speed, wireless broadband and create new opportunities for commerce, education, healthcare and delivery of government services across Kenya.
But that's not the only big news for Project Holodeck, as the team recently swapped Microsoft's Kinect motion tech for Sony's PlayStation Move motion tech.
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The development project was kept closely guarded, even among Microsoft executives.
At a keynote address at the massive Consumer Electronics Show, Bach announced that Microsoft's gesture-reading gaming system, called Project Natal, will be for sale by the next holiday season.
Kinect has been touted as a way to get more physical activity into the traditionally sedentary sphere of video games since the days of Project Natal, and now it appears like Microsoft is developing some powerful new software to start quantifying just how much players are moving around.
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Microsoft and Cisco have been working for 20 months now on a project entitled Cisco Networking Services for Active Directory.
Frankly, I hope it fails, but I worry that Sony, along with Nintendo and Microsoft, are going to bring this in as an industry wide project.
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