Apple have now finally released a version of Bootcamp for OSX 10.6 to support Windows 7. Not to soon either as Apple had previously announced that they would be releasing Windows 7 support by the end of 2009.

This is good new for owners of Mac’s as they can now dual boot their Mac’s Windows 7 enabling them to run the Windows 7.

The bad news is that Bootcamp only does not allow users to re-size partition safely and it is still difficult to transfer file between the OS’s due to the incompatible file systems.

The video by Barton Smith, a designer from Australia of all places, appears to be a prototype UI for a conceptual “Locus OS” which is described as a “location-based operating system”. What makes it special is that it appears to be Microsoft branded

Features :

| Location-based operating system
| Multiple widget desktops designed around a location or activity ie Kitchen, Office, Car
| Automatically switches between desktops with GPS and wi-fi mapping
| Simplified Collections menu allows browsing via function rather than application

Note: This interface was designed before iPhone 3.0, Palm Pre, Android etc, making the ideas original at the time

Designed for Stream adaptive computer system: behance.net/Gallery/Stream/191676

Microsoft is going to be phasing out support for Unix and Linux platforms for its FAST enterprise search products as of their next release (some time after 2010). Microsoft shared that information, as well as other news about its near-

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The group behind the world’s most popular smartphone operating system - Symbian - is giving away “billions of dollars” worth of code for free.

The Symbian Foundation’s announced that it would make its code open source in 2008 and has now completed the move.

It means that any organisation or individual can now use and modify the platform’s underlying source code “for any purpose”.

Symbian has shipped in more than 330m mobile phones, the foundation says.

Although some ten years old, Symbian is installed on more than 330 million phones globally, making it the largest smartphone platform currently in existence. However, the success of Google’s open source Android has been diverting the limelight of late, as has the rise of Apple’s iPhone OS.

From today developers will be able to download source code and experiment with it, ending years of lengthy contract negotiations before apps could begin to take shape.

This should mean an easier life for developers, encouraging faster and more exciting app development.

Read more visit : http://www.symbian.org/

: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/8496263.stm

Microsoft Tag: Barcodes for digital content through your phone

Microsoft Tag is another stab at digital scanners that aim to connect printed materials with online content. The advantage of Microsoft Tag that it doesn’t require a special device. It’s simply software that you can load on your cell phone; the phone’s camera is used for scanning the bar code and the digital content shows up on the phone, provided your phone is online. Microsoft Tag can run on devices from basic Java phones to smartphones, including Windows Mobile devices, BlackBerrys, and iPhones.

Microsoft Tag is a breakthrough technology that transforms everyday things in the real world into live links to online information and entertainment.

From your mobile phone, simply snap or scan a Tag image anywhere you see it – in editorials, advertisements, product packaging, signs and storefronts – and gain instant access to Websites, videos, reviews, schedules, contact information, social networks, discounts, promotions and more!

All you need to do is download the free Tag reader on your web enabled camera phone and when you see a Tag, snap or scan it to interact with the world around you in new ways!

Powering up the possibilities.

The Microsoft Tag mobile tagging system offers many advances and advantages:

• Designed from the beginning to work with the limited capabilities of a typical camera phone.
• Smaller than other formats. Typical packaging application starts at 3/4 x 3/4”.
• Optimized for both print and video display.
• Enhanced Reed-Solomon error correction means Tags can still be read even if partially damaged.
• On many phones can decode using a direct real-time camera video stream, you don’t even have to “click” to read the code.
• Handles long URLs and allows for content to be dynamically changed.
• Tags are saved for later viewing and can be forwarded to someone else (no need to scan it again).

More details about this technology : http://www.microsoft.com/tag/content/overview/

Are you looking for good and well documented working code samples of Microsoft development technologies? Well, if you are, the Microsoft Community Support team has prepared an all-in-one code framework for you, which is easy to learn  and use - the essence of development.

There are already over 300 code samples in the set. They cover 24 Microsoft development technologies.

visit : All-in-one code framework - Codeplex

Microsoft has a great blog post detailing the new APIs from the Sensor platform that Windows 7 provides developers for creating unique applications.

Read More: The Windows Blog