Microsoft poised to unveil WorldWide Telescope?
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Google Sky beware Redmond's all-seeing galactic eye On 27 February, Microsoft will use the TED Conference in Monterey, California, to launch its "WorldWide Telescope" - a downloadable Google Sky-busting app allowing users to "pan around the nighttime sky and zoom as far in to any one area as the data will allow".â¦
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Look out, Google: the Redmond giant will make its long-awaited big splash into the search engine market tomorrow. The moment of truth has arrived.
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Microsoft's recent successes in the IPTV field have thus far failed to guarantee its seat in that market, especially in Europe where digital video is far more widely deployed.  So this morning's announcement of Microsoft's new "Mediaroom" brand for IPTV services is undoubtedly being dissected in Europe, with every sentence being re-examined to glean any hint of the company's long-term plans.
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Microsoft has some serious questions to answer....
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As Microsoft Corp. MSFT.O prepares to launch its own Web search engine to take on Google Inc. GOOG.O , industry watchers are already speculating
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OUTLOOK FOR HUBBLE: The newest report on a plan to save the popular, aging space telescope by repairing it with a robot says it would cost &#36;2 billion and have just a 50-50 chance of working.
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Microsoft is offering yet another glimpse at its oft-delayed Longhorn edition of Windows. Two new concept videos have been posted to the MSDN Web site that demonstrate potential real-life scenarios for the software giant's next generation operating system. The demos -- one geared towards telecoms and the other toward governments -- take a detailed look at longhorn's core technologies and discuss its promised benefits. Longhorn is expected to ship sometime in 2006; although, pundits are questioning Microsoft's ability to deliver on its key components like the WinFS file-storage system and the Avalon graphical subsystem.
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Details are scarce at this point, but the next client OS will have a "fundamental piece of enabling technology," a Microsoft executive said this week, such as a hypervisor or new type of interface.
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When scientists are looking into space, the more they can see, the easier it is to piece together the puzzle of the cosmos. The James Webb Space Telescope's mirror blanks have now been constructed.
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A University of Kentucky professor is pushing to set up a telescope in Australia that students could use via the Internet.
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Microsoft Corp.  will unveil a  coffee-table-shaped "surface computer" on Wednesday in a major  step towards co-founder Bill Gates's view of a future where the  mouse and keyboard are replaced by more natural interaction  using voice, pen and touch.
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Microsoft is launching a new computer form factor that looks like a coffee table and has touchscreen and auto-sync capability.
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The telescopeâs 34-foot-wide mirror, one of the largest in the world, is designed to take advantage of pristine skies over the northern Atlantic islands.
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Microsoft on Friday released a new preview of the presentation subsystem of its upcoming Longhorn version of Windows. The Redmond, Wash.
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New and relatively cheap telescope technology is putting the universe into incredibly sharp focus. Is the Hubble being rendered obsolete?
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Long-planned escape from beige boxes Analysis Microsoft's announcement of Surface Computing, basically a PC built into a coffee table, might indeed represent a new paradigm in computing technology, but for Microsoft it's just another attempt at getting its software out from the beige boxes under our desks to somewhere, anywhere, else.â¦
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PPARC -- British astronomers are celebrating a world first that could revolutionise the future of astronomy. They have just begun a project to operate a global network of the world's biggest robotic telescopes, dubbed 'RoboNet-1.0' which will be controlled by intelligent software to provide rapid observations of sudden changes in astronomical objects, such as violent Gamma Ray Bursts, or 24-hour surveillance of interesting phenomena...