Anith Gopal

Friday at PAX was busy. Things started for me getting off a red-eye flight from Redmond landing at 9:30am in Boston. I headed right over to Microsoft NERD for Major Nelson’s morning Tweet-up

Those of you that have been following Surface probably remember the Surface Monster demo we showed at PDC this fall. Luis and Paul tricked out this model to work on Surface and convey images from Surface onto the..

  Avec Microsoft Surface, Windows 7 … le tactile entre de plein pieds (ou mains, c’est mieux tout de même) dans la relation entre l’usager ou le citoyen et les services publics. La mission de l’équipe du Microsoft Technology Center et de l’équipe Entreprise est passionnante à cet égard car nous permet d’accompagner ces changements ou évolutions vers le monde numérique … voici 3 exemples de projets dans lesquels nous avons pu nous impliquer et qui illustrent ces apports : Conseil Général de la Manche : Les innovations numériques sont au cœur du développement économique et social de la Manche. Avec la table Surface de Microsoft, le Conseil Régional fait aujourd’hui figure de pionnier dans l’expérimentation d’un nouvel environnement technologique, au service des usagers

Ok. So you’ve heard me talk about how we’re in at WPC in a big way. Now it’s official.

People began checking in at WPC on Sunday afternoon. Microsoft Surface was right there

You can find Microsoft Surface at the Hospitality Financial and Technology Professionals conference in Anaheim this week. We’ll be there through Thursday. You can follow the Microsoft Hospitality team – Barry Fridley on his blog or his Twitter feed or Michael Raheem on his Twitter feed

The great thing about developing on Microsoft Surface is that it’s based on standard Microsoft tools and practices. If you’re a .NET developer working with WPF or familiar with XNA , you can get up and running on Microsoft Surface relatively quickly. Once you’ve purchased Microsoft Surface , the first thing developers will want to do is get access to our customer community site

If so, we want to hear from you! We have created a survey to help us better understand how developers and designers are using our tools and SDK to build Microsoft Surface applications. To make this worth your time, we are giving away over 80 prizes, including a $100 gift coupon to a major online retailer! To learn about the official giveaway rules and to complete the survey, visit the “ Survey for Microsoft Surface developers and designers ” page on the Microsoft Surface Community Web site.

Bill Crounse, M.D. is a Senior Director for Worldwide Health at Microsoft and has a series called House Calls for Healthcare Professionals . This week Bill had Microsoft Surface ‘s Matt Champagne as well as other professionals in healthcare and technology to talk about how Microsoft Surface will change the face of healthcare and how organizations like Texas Health Resources working with Infusion Development are using it to improve doctor-patient communication

We’ve recently made available a group of sample applications for our Microsoft Surface customers as a download on our Community site . These applications are targeted at hospitality and entertainment venues

It seems like I have been twittering (at AlfredTwo ) a bunch of links lately.

Saturday is the start of the HIMSS ’09 Conference. If you’re out at HIMSS in Chicago, make sure to look for Microsoft Surface