Microsoft LightSpace…and my new gig
My first post on the Official Microsoft Blog went up yesterday and it’ll be the start of a series of posts that look at the future of technology and what Microsoft is doing around a number of technology trends like Natural User Interface (NUI), social computing, cloud computing and more. You’ll start to see me shift some of my content over to that site and a new site that I’ll have more news on very soon….
It’s probably a good time to talk a little about my new role here in Redmond. I’ve been here for 3 months or so now and been pretty quiet on what I’m up to whilst still blogging here when I can. You may have noticed my content here has changed tack somewhat. It’s begun to focus on a the future of technology and where things are headed. I’ve talked about sensors, the murky innovation word, natural user interfaces, and augmentation. I’ve been spending much of my 3 months as an internal journalist of sorts, meeting with a ton of people from around Microsoft in places like Microsoft Research, the Envisioning Lab, the Microsoft Home, FUSE Labs, Live Labs, our labs in Israel and places like The Garage, the hardware shop and the anechoic chamber. All the while I’ve been collating stories about People, Places, Products and Processes here at Microsoft.
Over the coming months, I’m going to start publishing those stories and giving a glimpse of some of the people you’ve not heard about before and the projects they’re working on. Designers, architects, ethnographers, trend watchers, industry luminaries, young Turks. It’ll hopefully be the continuation of something I started a while back as bit of a hobby – showing another side of Microsoft that many (including our own employees) don’t get to see. Folks like Long Zheng and Mary Jo Foley as well as our own Channel 9 team are great at doing this already and I’ll be joining them albeit with a slightly different tack. So amongst others things, that’s what my new gig is – showing you some parts of Microsoft you’ve not seen before and joining the dots between the work of all the groups above.
I’ve been having a lot of fun in and around Redmond for a few months. Now I want to start telling you all about it.