> Capps talks excitedly of his latest work, expanding user interfaces
into
> new dimensions: "Everybody thinks the user interface should have
> these stupid icons and gray desktop and all that stuff. And that was a
> limitation of the technology. So few people realize that that was a
kind
> of a compromise -- what you could do with technology in 1984. But
> now we're assuming that's normal, and it's really not. I just think we
> need to take the opportunity to do something different. We may be
> completely wrong, but that's the cool thing. That's what user
interface
> is all about."
>
> For Capps, Microsoft is the one place with enough money, resources
> and talent to attempt to "do something different," like develop voice-
> operated systems. "You look at what IBM and Dragon have
> demonstrated with their latest releases, this stuff is kind of
useable.
> And everybody that knows anything about user interfaces realizes that
> an interface is going to have to be built around speech. So if I had
to
> put my bets on who can define an interface around speech, it would be
> Microsoft," Capps says.
- Joe
Joseph S. Barrera III (joebar@microsoft.com)
http://research.microsoft.com/~joebar
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Subject: Going over to the dark side
> At Apple, according to Eames, "There are smart
> people at the bottom and sometimes smart people
> at the top. But generally, that middle zone is
> where there's not a lot of smart people." At
> Microsoft, on the other hand, the intelligence
> is evenly spread from the bottom up.
http://www.salonmagazine.com/sept97/21st/apple970925.html
Tim
--
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they'll go to anything. Keith Richards
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