Microsoft unveils amazing new vision of the future video

Microsoft has created a follow-up to its “Office 2019″ video and the latest concept of the future provides some amazing insights into how technology will impact our lives in the future.

The latest video builds on Microsoft’s previous concepts of touch based computing anywhere and everywhere. The video opens with a business woman visiting Johannesburg and having the audio around her translated in real time thanks to some futuristic glasses. Other scenes in the video feature highly personalised experiences and touch computing on every surface. Microsoft previously created an “Office 2019” video which also features the same opaque smartphones and touch walls.

Microsoft’s future vision is designed to show what the world might look like in the next five to 10 years.GeekWire’s Todd Bishop managed to speak to the videos creators at Microsoft in a recent interview. “We see an expanded definition of productivity where it’s not just about getting things done,” said David Jones, Microsoft’s director of envisioning. “It’s also about doing the right things, and doing them well and enjoying the process with other people in a very natural way.”

Microsoft believes that most of the technology in the video exists in some form or another today. “All of the ideas in the video are based on real technology,” explains Microsoft’s Office chief, Kurt DelBene, in a blog post on Thursday. “Some of the capabilities, such as speech recognition, real time collaboration and data visualization already exist today. Others are not yet available in specific products, but represent active research and development happening at Microsoft and other companies.”

Check out the video below and let us know in the comments what you think the future of computing will be in the next five years.

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Microsoft Unveils Office 365 Beta In 38 Countries Including India.

Microsoft is expanding the the beta version of Office 365 and has made service available in 38 Countries and 17 languages. The company has also launched an application and services storefront called Office 365 Marketplace, which features about 100 applications and 400 professional services from developers and channel partners.

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Since Office 365 is a cloud based service, users can access it from anywhere and at anytime. Microsoft claims that there are some advantages with Office 365. It incorporates Microsoft Office Web applications with an array of web-enabled tools, these tools are easy to learn and put in practice. Also, the tools and the apps won’t require new set of hardware but will work with the existing hardware settings swiftly and will be highly secured.

Microsoft had announced Office 365 in 2010. Now, one might wonder when Office 2010 was selling well, why Microsoft has thought of introducing the new cloud based Office 365. The reason behind it is the success of Google Apps which has been giving Microsoft a hard time. In the closing week of February, a new survey was conducted by a Google Apps reseller, White Stratus, which came up with very important findings — Amongst 2030 companies surveyed, 20 percent used Google Apps and a large number of such companies are big enterprises which have over 10000 employees. These figures indicate that Microsoft has valid reasons to feel worried in the face of Google Apps’ advancement.

Corporate vice president of Microsoft, Kirk Koenigsbauer said, “We’ve been in the cloud for years supporting large enterprises such as Shell and DuPont, but Office 365 takes that same technology power and delivers it to small businesses.” If you ask why the product will suit SMEs, then the answer is, it integrates Microsoft Office, SharePoint Online, Exchange Online, and Lync Online as cloud based services. Large corporations will seek server based solutions instead, so it’s mostly the small and medium size businesses, which will get benefited.

Microsoft Office-365

When Microsoft is promoting Office 365 as a tool for small businesses, they really meant it. The company has set up a contest which would enable five small businesses to win Office 365, a $50,000 marketing package, and a day’s work from a Microsoft executive at the winner’s business or charity of choice.

Microsoft announced that over time they will add new features into the product. When hundreds of apps and nearly 400 professional services have been made available by 16000 cloud partners in such a short period, adding new features is a matter of time. Microsoft offers the product in two packages — SMEs will go for monthly deal with ‘community support’ and large enterprises will probably buy 24*7 admin support with advanced configuration, based on yearly contract. The minimum cap of subscription price is $6.