Microsoft Research packs 'Wallop'
eWeek | at | by Mike
Microsoft themed this week's Professional Developers Conference along the lines of the company's advancements in presentation, storage and communications, and Wednesday Microsoft showed how its research arm is enhancing these areas and more.
In the area of communications, Rashid called upon Lili Chang, a senior researcher at Microsoft, to demonstrate how the software giant is working on social computing, social interaction and how communication can work in the future.
Chang demonstrated a research project called Wallop that includes Web logging capabilities, document and image sharing, and other interactive features. Chang said parts of Wallop will find its way into the Longhorn operating system. The software will automatically associate people, groups and data in Longhorn.