Microsoft Mobile is still slow innovation research needs to be strengthened

October 30, the "Microsoft Innovation Day 2013" event was successfully held in Beijing. At the event, Microsoft has demonstrated 21 innovative technologies and applications that are epoch-making and forward-looking, but there seems to be no landmark product or technology in the Mobile world, and Microsoft needs to be more aggressive in the face of Google and Apple's threats.

At the press conference on Innovation Day, Microsoft Dean Wuen highlighted 3 techniques:

Power Map, a part of the next version of Excel, is a 3D data visualization application that currently has only a beta version. Common table people know that Excel 2D chart function, but also a data visualization application, now it will be developed to the 3D level, so that users can visually draw the region and time data, from three-dimensional perspective of the data analysis.

Real-time speech translation system is a system that can translate and present text instantly, and read the translated words in a similar voice. For example, Xiaoming and Tom Dialogue, the system will be able to xiaoming said the Chinese real-time translation into English display, and accompanied by Xiaoming's voice in English reading.

But the actual demonstration process, we can see that the communication is not very smooth, the system of Chinese recognition is a single word, word for series, and the distinction between the words of homonym is not very good.

Real-time Speech translation Demo

The Kinect-based sign Language translation system, based on research findings in the fields of translation and natural language processing, speech and gesture recognition, has been identified and translated using the Kinect device opponents. At present, around 360 million of the world's hearing impaired people, this technology will hopefully improve their quality of life, and let the Deaf people realize the dream of "voice". Of course, this technology is still in prototype phase, just take the first step, because for the deaf people, it is not likely to want to communicate with people, regardless of the location and the environment and dedicated to the Kinect before the dance, When the technology can evolve to mobile devices or use wearable devices and mobile apps without the use of Kinect, that day will be the Gospel of the global hearing impaired.

This year's Innovation Day event, the technology display is divided into 4 topics: large data and machine learning, cloud computing and mobile technology, natural user interface, technology leading product innovation. In addition to the above 3 major technologies, but also including touch screen real touch, mobile devices for 3D scanning, indoor navigation, 2 billion-level pixel digital camera system, large data to infer the quality of urban air and so on.

These 21 forward-looking technologies, which can be considered to involve mobile Internet-related technologies are: Video stabilization, language flying cloud: Chinese education interactive platform, large data inferred City air quality, touch screen true touch, Bing influence, mobile devices 3D scanning, digital hair stylist, indoor navigation, about 8, seemingly a lot of appearance , however, the 8 kinds of so-called forward-looking techniques, mostly app applications or the technology of using cloud computing data, are not much forward-looking.

Microsoft's crisis

In July this year, Microsoft Reorganized 8 product divisions into 4 new divisions, and now, as Google and Apple continue to accelerate, the threat from Apple and Google is growing, and Microsoft needs better system response, In the future market competition in the backward Microsoft has to redesign its own strategy and start from the software business to more diversified direction.

The era of enterprise IT consumption is in the past, now into the IT consumer era, the core terminal is smart phones, whether it is the Internet and mobile internet services, or mobile OS, Microsoft has not found the door.

Although it has slipped, Apple still holds the lead in the mobile device sector, Google's Android system also has an oversized installed capacity, and Google glasses also led the trend of wearable equipment, Apple iwatch will be available next year, and Microsoft, still do not have enough forward-looking technology or hardware to break the deadlock.

This paper introduces the research of innovation in the field of mobile technology

This year's Innovation Day event, the presentation of the 3 major forward-looking technology powermap, real-time voice translation system, Kinect-based sign language translation system and only the power map is more impressive, because the last Microsoft Innovation Day activity is 2010 October, Shown in the event: simultaneous interpretation telephone, mobile three-dimensional interactive field technology, small series that this has real-time voice translation system, based on the Kinect Sign Language translation system prototype or original concept, after 3 years to now, is not a novelty, and these 2 technologies, to the present is still only "technical prototype" Can not actually flexible normal application.

In mobile technology-related shows, this year is the most impressive touch screen real tactile technology, but, in fact, Apple has a similar patent.

Microsoft is the new research in the field of mobile technology, Microsoft has become a slow-moving laggard in the wave of technology innovation in mobile interconnection.

(Responsible editor: The good of the Legacy)