CAMBRIDGE, Mass.--Microsoft Chief Research and Strategy Officer Craig Mundie on Thursday offered a long-term view of where Microsoft and the world of computing are heading over the next few decades. Speaking at the MIT Emerging Technology Conference here,
Mundie envisioned a 3D virtual world populated by virtual presences, using a combination of client and cloud services.
He called this next generation "spatial computing" and listed numerous attributes: many-core processors; parallel programming; seamlessly connected and fully productive; context-aware and model-based; personalized, humanistic, and adaptive; 3D and immersive; and utilizing speech, vision and gestures.
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YUP.. I GUESS THEY HEARD OF HOME, THE SIMS, SECOND LIFE Etc.
glad you are on board.

Better late than never Microsoft...