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Oprogramowanie od Microsoft za darmo

ParalyserX — Thu, 15 May 2008 14:34:03 +0000

Microsoft z pewnością nie zalicza się do firm, które byłyby znane z darmowego oprogramowania. Jednak ostatnio gigant z Redmond zaczyna oferować bezpłatne aplikacje, co ma zatrzeć niekorzystny wizerunek monopolisty.

Jednym z takich programów jest WorldWide Telescope, który udostępnia wszystkim użytkownikom komputerów z systemem Windows duży zbiór obrazów przestrzeni kosmicznej. Zdjęcia zostały wykonane zarówno przez teleskopy umieszczone na Ziemi, jak i te orbitujące wokół niej.

Wszystkie fotografie zostały umieszczone na jednym dużym 12-terabajtowym serwerze. Zestawiono je tak, aby tworzyły rodzaj interaktywnej podróży. Pomysł WorldWide Telescope wyszedł od jednego z pracowników Microsoftu, Curtisa Wonga, który jest interesuje się zagadnieniami dotyczącymi kosmosu.

Źródło: 4press.pl

A new look at the universe

Marc Bresseel — Wed, 16 Apr 2008 12:00:42 +0000

There're days when I feel even prouder than others to work for Microsoft. Bear with me because this has nothing to do with blatant promotion for one of our services but sheer wonder for one of the greatest projects the Next Media Research team leading by Curtis Wong has been working on with the Harvard Center for Astrophysics researcher and astronomer Roy Gould. (And its not only me saying so :-) ) I have used and showed the examples in a couple of presentations lately - but suddenly realized I had not mentioned it here.

The WorldWide Telescope is an unprecedented, powerful and collaborative tool to help everyone of us understand the universe in our own way , enabling us to

experience the universe- picture a magic carpet navigating each of us to where we want to go
tour the universe with a passionate astronomer as our guide
create our own tours and share them with friends
zoom the universe- big times!

Its basically going to change the way we see ourselves as part of this universe. And also how we're going to talk about the universe, sharing stories about our personal universe. A new community of universe storytellers is much likely to evolve indeed, creating a new dialogue with the universe (to quote Roy).

Check it out by yourself:

[wpvideo lPkcs0T8 w=400]

The WorldWide Telescope project is dedicated to Microsoft researcher Jim Gray, who's achieved many of our prodigious technological projects like Virtual Earth to name but one.

For all kids at heart, there's a preview site to make us impatiently wait till the free demo to be released in a couple of weeks.

Comment: World Wide Telescope

banovsky — Wed, 19 Mar 2008 14:41:08 +0000

I've been browsing the presentations on TED for a few hours now, and decided to check out some of the new videos posted. One of which is the World Wide Telescope which, incredibly (in Spring 2008):

WorldWide Telescope ... enables seamless panning and zooming across the night sky blending terabytes of images, data, and stories from multiple sources over the Internet into a media-rich, immersive experience.

Now please understand...this is on your home computer. This is allowing regular people access to some of humanity's most incredible imagery. This technology will allow us to see back in time millions of years from distant stars and galaxies.

Check out the presentation on YouTube, or go to the TED site and get the talk in high-def. Awesome.

Microsoft lança 'WorldWide Telescope'

snnangola — Tue, 19 Feb 2008 07:13:55 +0000

Finalmente a Microsoft lançou um produto que nao é mais um ja dominado pela gigante google. O WorldWide Telescope será um 'desktop software' que permitirá aos usuarios visualizarem o universo inacessivel a milhares de kilometros de distancia, permitindo vistas de infravermelhos ou luz nao-visivel.