Developers at Microsoft have revived the dream through Project Austin, a Windows 8 app based around the visual concept of a notebook.

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For those who are unfamiliar with the concept, a word cloud is a visual representation of the most frequently used words in a given document or, in this case, a speech.

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The CrossBlue concept, which boasts six individual seats, combines the visual impact of an SUV with the spaciousness and flexibility of a minivan.

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It's a different visual format, it's organized differently, but its really the same concept we had around the chat room.

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Much has been made of how visual and sharable its blogs are, but it was its early adoption of the concept of post types that is responsible for the effortless user experience of its content creation functions.

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