Techno Babble

The Microsoft Robotics Studio is a Windows-based environment for academic, hobbyist and commercial developers to easily create robotics applications across a wide variety of hardware.

Key features and benefits of the Microsoft Robotics Studio environment include: end-to-end Robotics Development Platform , lightweight services-oriented runtime, and a scalable and extensible platform.

Read an associated datasheet, Microsoft Robotics Studio DataSheet Oct06 English.pdf

You can also read an interesting article in the Redmond Magazine, Microsoft’s Future Is … Robotics? where there’s an interview with the general manager in charge of the Microsoft Robotics Studio product, Tandy Trower.

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Google is your computer

Some interesting ideas are raised in this article

http://www.cnet.com/4520-6033_1-5759958-1.html?tag=nl.e501,

about how the future of the desktop may be changing.

There is a nice description of a piece of the enabling technology, Ajax, that drives google maps and other google sites.