http://www.microsoft.com/esp/news.htm Microsoft ESP news headlines en-us http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/press/2008/dec08/12-02MSESPPR.mspx Microsoft Corp. today unveiled for the first time new capabilities of the next version of the Microsoft ESP visual simulation software development platform at I/ITSEC 2008. http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/features/2008/oct08/10-29ESP.mspx Microsoft ESP extends simulation innovation to government, enabling immersive, game-like training solutions on a public-sector budget. http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/SimPilotMagazine/~3/420398211/index.php After Microsoft released Flight Simulator X two years ago, they announced another product called Microsoft ESP. http://www.redmonk.com/jgovernor/2008/09/25/living-in-de-material-world-on-microsoft-train-sim-and-the-virtual-everything/ Last Monday I gave a presentation about Sustainable IT at the Big Microsoft Virtualisation kick off in Bellevue, Washington. Tuesday that week my day was relatively free so my time was a jump ball – who in the Microsoft Analyst Relations team would grab it? Two business units stepped in; developer tools and a group within Microsoft’s game division. ACES Studio is the creator of Flight Simulator, a software product even hardened Microsoft haterz love. http://thinkbalm.com/2008/07/17/my-take-on-microsoft%e2%80%99s-immersive-internet-play-for-information-workers/ As an IT industry analyst I’ve covered Microsoft’s information worker software products for a long time –- particularly the company’s collaboration and social computing tools. As it dawned on me about a year ago that the Immersive Internet was going to have just as big an impact on the way information workers do our jobs as the Web has, I began to poke and probe at Microsoft product management and marketing executives in the information worker division to find out what they think about people using virtual worlds for work.