Introducing Pivot from Microsoft Live Labs
A new prototype from Microsoft Live Labs is designed to change the way in which the end users look at the Web. In this regard, the Redmond company explained that Pivot was a project dedicated to make the Web more like an actual web, and less like a series of disparate pages. “Pivot makes it easier to interact with massive amounts of data in ways that are powerful, informative, and fun. We tried to step back and design an interaction model that accommodates the complexity and scale of information rather than the traditional structure of the Web,” reads an excerpt of Pivot’s introduction.
At this point in time, although the testing program for the Pivot project is live, access is restricted to just a small pool of customers. According to the Redmond company, the Technical Preview is full, with the company having already distributed all the invitations to the first testing milestone. Still, users that want an invite can submit their email address and wait for a notification from Microsoft. The software giant made no mention as to when it planned to open the testing program for Pivot to additional testers.
“When we use the Web today we treat the most fundamental scenarios as separate activities. Search takes us from many things to one, browsing moves us from one thing to another, a...
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