How Microsoft quietly built the city of the future
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How Microsoft quietly built the city of the future
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#3Breathless in tone and lacking specifics. Seems like interesting work, though. Frustrating.
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#4This is a pretty poor attempt at copying the NY Times design for their Snow Fall project (http://www.nytimes.com/projects/2012/snow-fall/#/?part=tunne...).
It's lacking the top nav and the typography is terrible. Generally just lacks some polish and execution.
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#5Sounds interesting, but totally lacking in specifics, or enough explanation of how some of the claims would work. Like the statement on the first page that engineers would be able to fix a stuck damper or leaky valve with "a few clicks" - how's that gonna happen, exactly?
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#6It might just be me, I found that initial scrolling transition to be brutally distracting.
And I wanted to give the article a proper chance, so I read down the page and stumbled over the navigation to the next page, which gave me this error:
"We are sorry, the page you requested cannot be found."
And then after a few seconds, that page redirected me automatically to a Bing search for this string:
"en us news stories 88acres 88 acres how microsoft quietly built the city of the future chapter 2 aspx"
At least Bing had the good sense to return the original article as the first result.
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#7This is a pretty poor attempt at copying the NY Times design for their Snow Fall project ( http://www.nytimes.com/projects/2012/snow-fall/#/?part=tunne... ). It's lacking the top nav and the typography is terrible. Generally just lacks some polish and execution.
The page looks like a wreck. It's like it's trying to look cool and tripping over itself.
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#8It might just be me, I found that initial scrolling transition to be brutally distracting. And I wanted to give the article a proper chance, so I read down the page and stumbled over the navigation to the next page, which gave me this error: "We are sorry, the page you requested cannot be found." And then after a few seconds, that page redirected me automatically to a Bing search for this string: "en us news stories…
Hm, I get a similar error when trying to download the whitepaper on the fifth page. I can change pages fine, but when I try and click on the link it does a "download microsoft" Bing search...
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#9I had originally commented saying that this was a great read. I was only half-way done though. After finishing the entire thing, I agree that it could have used more details.
Overall I do think it's a good read (so, you know, some of you should read it instead of just posting about the layout of the site..). It just could have had a little less fluff and more details. You do end up getting a solid sense of how useful this could be to other companies.
I thought the whitepaper linked on the fifth page might be a good source for more information, but unfortunately the link didn't work for me.
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#10Looks like smart building and smart city concept is a continuation of the things that were happening in his previous work at Cisco. Great potential and a good vision. Only seeing this moving at any speed in small patches, but a real difference when you have it.