Microsoft has just launched information regarding its new muscle control interface technology which allows you to control devices using your muscles. The Microsoft Muscle Control opens up a whole new dimension in possible game and real world controllers for devices.

The new technology uses “electromyography”, or EMG which records the electrical activity of muscles and translates those signals into instructions.

“As computing and displays begin to integrate more seamlessly into our environment and are used in situations where the user is not always focused on the computing task, it is important to consider mechanisms for acquiring human input that may not necessarily require direct manipulation of a physical implement.

We explore the feasibility…

Microsoft lost its appeal in a Federal Court in the patent case brought against Microsoft by i4i Ltd of Canada in lieu of the use of their XML related patents similarly used in Microsoft Word 2007.

Beginning the 11th of January 2010, Microsoft will have to stop selling Microsoft Word – which basically means Microsoft Office – unless they compromise with out of the court settlement with i4i before the specified date.

“This injunction applies only to copies of Microsoft Word 2007 and Microsoft Office 2007 sold in the U.S. on or after the injunction date of January 11, 2010.  Copies of these products sold before this date are not affected.” –…

Chris Liddell, Microsoft Corporation’s Chief Financial Officer (CFO), is to depart from the company at the end of this year stating that he is in search for a better job with another company.

Since May 2005, Chris Liddell has been the CFO of the world’s largest software company – after joining from the paper and packaging maker, International Paper Co, where he was also a CFO.

Microsoft stated that Liddell is now “looking at a number of opportunities that will expand his career beyond being a CFO.”

Liddell was a CEO of New Zealand forest products company Carter Holt Harvey Ltd and also worked as an investment banker before he went to the…

In three years time a new version of Windows will be released. After the five-year draw out between XP and Vista, Microsoft now wants to get back on track with the release of the new Windows 8.

At Professionals Developer’s Conference in LA last week, a slide disclosed that the next generation desktop Operating System (OS) is due on 2012 – about three years after the launch of Windows 7 and following the release of Vista in November 2006.

According to the roadmap presented during the conference, the time frame set for the “major release” of Windows Server platform to substitute the current Windows Server 2008 R2 edition is set on 2012.…