Editor’s note – March 5, 2013 – The Microsoft Researcher named in slide 8 was corrected from Jamie Shotton to Cem Keskin.

REDMOND, Wash. – March 4, 2013 – Microsoft’s strategic and technical vision for the future was discussed this week at TechForum, an annual event hosted by Craig Mundie, senior advisor to the CEO, and Eric Rudder, Microsoft’s chief technical strategy officer.

Mundie and Rudder were joined by Interactive Entertainment Business President Don Mattrick, Online Services Division President Qi Lu, Skype Division President Tony Bates, Microsoft Office Division President Kurt DelBene, Chief Research Officer Rick Rashid and others in discussing and demonstrating how the company is approaching this evolution in computing.

See highlights from TechForum in this slideshow.

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Diverse Workstations Scenario

March 04, 2013

Craig Mundie, senior advisor to the CEO, shows attendees diverse workstations in a Microsoft Envisioning Center scenario demo at TechForum 2013.

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Interactive Whiteboard System SketchInsight

March 04, 2013

Bongshin Lee of Microsoft Research demonstrates SketchInsight, an interactive whiteboard system for storytelling with data through real-time sketching.

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SketchInsight Provides Interactive Information Visualization

March 04, 2013

Microsoft Research project SketchInsight uses and extends the narrative attributes of whiteboard animation with interactive information visualization techniques to create a new, engaging form of storytelling with data.

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Rudder & Mundie in Kitchen of Microsoft Envisioning Center

March 04, 2013

Eric Rudder, chief technical strategy officer (left), and Craig Mundie, senior advisor to the CEO, talk in the kitchen of the new Microsoft Envisioning Center at TechForum 2013.

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Microsoft Office Enables Multi-Party Conference Meetings

March 04, 2013

Julia White of the Office Division at Microsoft shows how new features of Microsoft Office enable collaborative multi-party conference meetings.

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Solving Complex Problems in the Future

March 04, 2013

Anton Andrews, director of Envisioning in Office Labs, illustrates how teams will work and solve complex problems in the future.

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Interact with Large, Augmented Office Displays

March 04, 2013

Michel Pahud of Microsoft Research shows off Toward Large-Display Experiences, a research project that makes it easier for users to interact with large, augmented office displays.

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Teaching Kinect to Read Your Hands

March 04, 2013

Microsoft Researcher Cem Keskin uses Teaching Kinect to Read Your Hands, a project that uses machine learning to train Kinect to determine reliably whether your hand is open or closed.

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