Microsoft has unveiled its new control system for the Xbox 360 console, at E3 in Los Angeles.

Project Natal is a fully hands-free control system that will use face recognition and motion sensors to allow users to play games.

Film director Steven Spielberg, attending the launch, said it was "a window into what the future holds".

Although still in the early stages, Microsoft has sent prototypes to all the main game developers.

Speaking to the BBC, Mr Spielberg said he had always stated that "the main barrier stopping people getting into video games was the complexity of a games controller," and that Natal was "a whole new world".

"There is technology now that recognises not just your thumb, it recognises your entire person. The technology knows who you are," he said.

Mr Spielberg drew an analogy with the film industry, saying it was evolutionary step for games.

Microsoft "bing" be a HIT???

I'm a Bing. You're a Google? Microsoft is reportedly spending as much as $100 million in an advertising blitz on Hulu in what the company is calling a "Bing-a-thon."

The ads will be used as a way to "bake into the shows," Eric Hadley, general manager of worldwide marketing for search and MSN at Microsoft, told The New York Times, attempting to wow watchers instead of eliciting yawns and saying "'that's it?' "

Hulu will start running Bing ads on Monday night, according to a report in The New York Times. The promos are reportedly similar to a telethon---minus Jerry Lewis---and are being called "Bing-a-thon."

The Bing-a-thon on Hulu has been crafted to look like a TV program and will star Jason Sudeikis, Olivia Munn and Fred Willard, the Times said.

Microsoft is counting on the ads to be more successful than the company's PC promos that currently air on TV.

"The key will be whether we deliver a product and connect with people emotionally in the advertising," Yusuf Mehdi, senior vice president for the online services division of Microsoft told the paper. "You have to do something a little bit more surprising. It's a very tall marketing challenge and a very tall product challenge."

That emotional connection is supposed to come from the Bing ads that will be tied into TV shows streamed on Hulu.

In addition, Microsoft will air Bing ads on TV, but this time they will be integrated into shows rather than as standalone commercials.

NBC Universal, which is also a Hulu stakeholder, will feature Bing commercials on "The Late Show With Jimmy Fallon," and are also set to appear on MTV shows.

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If you’re like many twenty-first century knowledge workers, you have a computer at your office and another one at home. How many times have you arrived home, planning to catch up on some work, only to find that you don’t have the files you need? Or worse, that you don’t have the programs you need installed on your home computer? Microsoft Windows XP offers several features that enable you to retrieve the items you need without hopping in the car and driving back to the office.
You’re able to see exactly what is displayed on the other computer’s display and, more importantly, operate that computer as if you were sitting right in front of it. You have access to all of the other computer’s files, applications, and network resources.
With Remote Desktop, you can work from home using the full capabilities of your office computer. If you need to wait at home for a repair person (do they ever come within the scheduled time?!), you can continue to work just as productively as if you were at your office. If you’re stuck working over the weekend, at least you can do it from the comfort of home!
Remote Desktop can work in the other direction too: If, after working all night to finish up a project at home, you forget to bring documents to work, you can connect to your home computer from your office network. Again, using Remote Desktop, you have complete control to view and operate the computer from afar.
Windows XP can also serve as the connection point for a single virtual private network (VPN) connection. With a VPN, you use the Internet to connect a computer to your network. In effect, this makes your home computer merely another computer on your office network. You have full access to network resources, just as if your computer were physically connected to the local area network (LAN).
The basic difference between Remote Desktop and a VPN is that with Remote Desktop, your computer takes control of a remote computer, whereas with a VPN connection, your computer becomes another node on the network. With Remote Desktop, applications run on the remote computer (your computer is effectively used as a dumb terminal); with a VPN, applications run on your computer.

How to creat your own icons in windows xp?

It's shockingly easy to create your own icons in Windows XP. Let's do it: Click Start, click All Programs, click Accessories, and then click Paint. On the Image menu, click Attributes. Type 32 for both the Width and Height of the document, and make sure that Pixels is selected under Units. Click OK to create a new 32x32-pixel document: the size of an icon.

Now add type, color, or do whatever you'd like to your image. I like to shrink photos (headshots work best) to 32x32 and simply paste them into my Paint document. When you're finished, open the File menu and click Save As. Use the dialog box to choose where you want to save your file, then give it a name followed by ".ico" (without the quotes), and click Save. (The extension ".ico" tells Windows that it's an icon file.) You just created an icon! Now you can change any shortcut or folder to your own icon—just browse to it on your hard drive.