A video is going viral called Microsoft’s Future Vision 2019.

Very cool.

This is the complete 5min version on YouTube.

The engineers at Apple are watching it. (And building it into the next version of the iPhone.)

It was released a few days ago at the Wharton Business Technology Conference by Microsoft’s Business Division president Stephen Elop. It’s the latest production from Microsoft Office Labs.

Microsoft has the vision.

But — for some reason — they simply cannot bring anything cool to market.

… Microsoft needs to focus.

And it needs to realize quickly that focus doesn’t include wasting huge amounts of time and money on fights it will never win. Fights like the ones it’s bogged down in with Google for Internet search and advertising, and with Apple in portable media players.

Products like its Surface computer show that Microsoft has the potential to fulfill the promises made by the video above. And if it does that, I’ll have no problem once again using Microsoft products in my life. …

Digital Media – This is the Microsoft I want to see