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More than ever before, WorldWide Partner Conference was a serious demo fest with lots of cool technology shown off during the keynotes. Silverlight, Photosyth, Seadragon, Surface and more. Hats off to the WPC folks for showing off our innovations to an audience that sometimes only really gets to see (and sell) our business software. I already have lots of interest from UK Partners on Silverlight and Surface in particular. Needless to say I’ll need one of the latter for research purposes :)Check ’em out Microsoft Surface Allison Watson picked her favorite demos of the week, including Microsoft Surface. Learn more about Surface, the first surface computing platform. Live Labs Photosynth (and SeaDragon) Watch how a three-dimensional image is created from two-dimensional photos. See photos from

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Microsoft’s largest World Partner Conference of the year is being held today through Thursday in Denver.The Denver Post on Monday received an exclusive, behind-the-scenes look at pre-opening day events and some hot, new technology Microsoft will be showing off at this year’s conference. Among the new stuff is “Surface,” a table with one smart top that can morph into a gameboard, a restaurant menu, a canvas for virtual painting, a window to the Internet, a shopping guide or a jukebox — all with the touch of a finger. The conference is also a big scene for networking of the face-to-face kind. Colorful, contemporary lounges will be filled with 13,000 attendees from more than 130 countries who are eager to build new partnerships that help them

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