Microsoft opens a window on big concepts of the future
Seattle PI | at | by Mike
In the future, the transmission of all e-mails will be accompanied by a dramatic overhead whoosh that whips around the room in full stereo.
OK, not really, but visitors to Microsoft's newly remodeled Center for Information Work might get that impression. It's just one of the theatrical touches that the company is using as it tries to impress its big-business customers with its vision of future technologies.
Microsoft opened the revamped center this week. It is housed in a pair of stylish rooms at its Redmond headquarters chock full of prototypes and experimental software that the company considers five to seven years away from market.