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Microsoft Salutes Kinect Enthusiasts with Windows SDK
While Sony's busily plotting to litigate PS3 hackers, it seems Microsoft's getting busy courting them. The company says it plans to release a non-commercial Kinect for Windows software development kit this spring.
That's certainly a turnaround from their initially standoffish stance last November.
[PCWorld's full Kinect review]
According to Microsoft, it's part of their research wing's strategy to embrace application developers by "[making] it easier for academic research and enthusiast communities to create even richer experiences using Kinect technology."
Surprised? Don't be. Steve Ballmer's long maintained the company planned to get in front of Kinect for Windows.
Call it Kinect for Windows SDK, because Microsoft is, and it's coming from Interactive Entertainment Business (IEB) and Microsoft Research (MSR), the company's R&D subdivision "dedicated to conducting both basic and applied research in computer science and software engineering."
MSR's home page lists some 800 researchers working in eight locations around the world, including Asia, India, and Egypt. Some of its projects include HD View (a "camera for the web" ), Image Composite Editor (a tool that lets you stitch photos together to create panoramas), and Songsmith, a tool to generate musical accompaniment that matches a singer's voice. All told, they list some 550 projects in the hopper.
What do you get in the starter kit? According to Microsoft, "access to deep Kinect system capabilities such as audio, system APIs, and direct control of the sensor." The company plans to follow with a commercial version of the SDK farther down the road, though how much farther they're not saying.
Kinect for Windows SDK apparently dovetails with Microsoft's Natural User Interfaces (NUI) initiative, which includes Kinect for Xbox 360, Windows Phone 7, Microsoft Surface 2.0, and Bing for Mobile and Office 2010 Mini Translator.
While this probably won't stop hackers from continuing to poke around in the margins, it should increase the volume of "who'd 'a thunk?" motion-control ideas. We've certainly amused ourselves here at PC World collating Kinect hacks the past few months, including 8 Great Kinect Hacks, a Holographic Kinect Hack From a Galaxy Far, Far Away, and our Top 15 Kinect Hacks
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Check temp environment variable error for Microsoft Office 2007?
Hi,
We purchased our Acer laptop from PC World two weeks ago, and have only now started using it.
We have Windows 7 and Microsoft Office 2007 installed.
On trying to open a word attachment from an email, I am receiving the error message "temp environment variable error".
Please can someone help?
At Start menu, Run (or Windows key + R) type
regedit
Browse to
HKEY_CURRENT_USERSoftwareMicrosoftWindowsCurrent VersionExplorerUser Shell Folders
The Cache variable (in the right pane of the register editor window) should be
%USERPROFILE%AppDataLocalMicrosoftWindowsTemporary Internet Files
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We're all just living in it - Editorial: It's Apple's 'post-PC' world
On Wednesday, Apple introduced the world to the iPad 2. A beautiful device, to be sure. Feature packed? You bet. Soon to be selling like hotcakes? Absolutely. But the introduction of an iteration on an already existing product wasn't the most notable piece of the event, nor was the surprise appearance of Steve Jobs.
No, Wednesday's event was significant because it introduced the world to Apple's real vision for the foreseeable future, a theme the company has hinted at but never fully expressed. This week, Apple showed everyone where it was headed, challenged competitors on that direction, and made it clear that the company not only has staked a claim in that space, but is defining it.
This week, Apple stepped into the "post-PC" era of computing -- and there's no looking back, at least not for the folks in Cupertino.
By joining the company's ongoing vision of a "different" kind of computing with a soundbite friendly piece of marketing-speak, Apple Dell inspiron 640m battery has changed the rules of the game, and made the competition's efforts not just an uphill battle, but -- at least in the eyes of Steve Jobs and co. -- essentially moot. But what exactly is the "post-PC" world? And why is it significant? Let me explain.
In this new world, Apple no longer has to compete on specs and features, nor does it want to. There is no Mac vs. PC here -- only "the future" versus "the past." It won't be a debate about displays, memory, wireless options -- it will be a debate about the quality of the experience. Apple is not just eschewing the spec conversation in favor of a different conversation -- it's rendering those former conversations useless. It would be like trying to compare a race car to a deeply satisfying book. In a post-PC world, the experience of the product is central and significant above all else.
It's not the RAM or CPU speed, screen resolution or number of ports which dictate whether a product is valuable; it becomes purely about the experience of using the device. What that means is that while Motorola and Verizon will spend millions of dollars advertising the Xoom's 4G upgrade options, CPU speed, and high-resolution cameras, Apple need only delight consumers and tell them that specs and and speed are the domain of a dinosaur called the PC. Apple isn't claiming victory in the Space Race -- it's ceding space to the competition.
But guess who gets Earth all to itself? Apple's not saying that it beats other tablets on the market. It's saying "we do one thing, and these guys do something else altogether." They're not competition -- they're not even playing the same game!
That's not to say Apple has given up on PCs, and in fact, the company's laptop sales are consistently exceeding expectations. But take a look at what's creeping around the corner. There's Lion, with its iOS-like interface, its simplified experience. If Apple has its way, and if the sales of its mobile devices carry on in the manner they have up until now, a post-PC outlook will even fit devices that look alarmingly like... PCs.
But right now -- in the tablet space at least -- the problem for Motorola, Samsung, HP, RIM, and anyone else who is challenging Apple Dell latitude e6500 battery becomes infinitely more difficult. Almost any company could put together a more powerful or spec-heavy tablet, but all the horsepower in the world can't help you if you don't find a way to delight the average consumer. Those other tablet makers may have superior hardware (and in the case of the Xoom, some superior software as well), but without that key component of sheer delight, the road for them is long and hard. HP is getting close by touting features like Touch-to-Share, but against experiences like the new GarageBand for iOS and the 65,000 apps (and counting) that currently exist, it's hard to see a clear path to sizable competition. That goes for Google and RIM as well.
What Apple has done by introducing its "post-PC" language into the vernacular is almost more a game of semantics. Now when Motorola boasts the brain-crushing, bone-splitting power of the Xoom, the company could easily come off like the guy who buys the red Ferrari because he has something to prove.
Apple isn't just challenging perceptions of the PC -- they're saying that the age of the PC is over (at least for most people). The Dell inspiron 1525 battery company is forcing consumers to ask if they even still want or need something called a PC (while of course making sure to point out that the competition is playing the same old game). And really, that's all part of the plan. Apple is in the process of making the iPad the de-facto standard for what the next stage of computing looks like, from the look and feel to the kind of software and experiences you have on the device. Apple doesn't just want to own the market -- it wants to own the idea of the market. We've seen this act before, and we know how it ends.
There was a time before the iPod too, when companies like HP, Samsung, and even Microsoft fought against Apple for the hearts and minds of the consumer -- but I'll be damned if anyone can remember it.
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