Microsoft Show Desktop Social Concept

At the end of last week Microsoft showed a prototype of Social Desktop will be introduced in TechFest 2009 and although currently still in the stage of intensive development, this product seems to be one product that drew attention and if Microsoft decided to release it, this product will destroy the wall barrier between the desktop and the Internet are becoming increasingly thin.

Social Desktop enables users to different, commenting, tagging and even search all the files on your desktop as photos and video through a portal. Think of all the features you get by making your own file upload to social networking sites like Flickr, but the difference you do not bother to send the file you want to share the social networking site.

Moreover, interaction with the objects belong to you will be seen on the Windows desktop, making your PC a social networking site.

Social Desktop currently operates in Windows 7 Beta, rogue use the preview function of the new files introduced in Windows 7. Social Desktop then creates a unique URL for each file in your hard disk you want to share and eventually published into a Silverlight-based portal and is operated by Windows Azure, a special OS that operates Microsoft's cloud computing platform. In this portal of your friends can make comments, give tags and more.

Asked about the differences in Social Desktop with Windows Live Mesh, Lili Cheng from Microsoft says that in "Live Mesh, as if you move your PC to the cloud. In Social Desktop, you would like to feel that the web world built into the desktop. "

If this service is released, looks like we will see a new wave of social networking applications where to use social networking users do not even need to upload their files to the cloud, the most boring event in the use of social networking sites.

Unfortunately, Microsoft says that this concept is still in development stage and will not be part of Windows 7.