7 things Microsoft should do at MIX11 and probably won't

Microsoft doesn't get enough credit for its approach to NUIs and UX and the potential for transforming how everyone interacts with computing devices of all shapes and sizes. One reason is pace. Microsoft isn't moving fast enough. There are many things Microsoft likely won't do at MIX11 that I sure would like to see -- stuff that would make people utter "wow" and wonder if Microsoft has a Second Act as IBM did in the mid 1990s and Apple did two decades later. I've chosen seven things that should be on this year's agenda however, sadly, likely won't be. Yet, hey, the event hasn't started but. With that introduction, here are seven things Microsoft should do while MIX11, presented in no order of importance:

1. Release IE10 beta. In mid March, Microsoft unveiled the long-anticipated Internet Explorer 9. It's a milestone, however not near enough. Google is setting a brisk pace for browser development. The search and information giant released Chrome 10 before in March and Chrome 11 beta almost right away afterwards. In the meantime, Firefox 4 released about a week afterwards IE9, with there already being buzz about FF5 coming as before long as summer. Apple and Opera as well released browser updates while March.

New browser war

There's a new browser war, and Microsoft must step up the pace. In spite of the new version's release, Internet Explorer continues its usage share decline -- to 55.92 percent in March from 56.77 percent a month previously. In the meantime, Chrome usage share rose to 11.57 percent from 10.93 percent.

2. Debut IE9 for mobile. Microsoft needs a good mobile browser, and as well one that can be installed on other platforms -- not just Windows Phone. A smart Microsoft would invade Google turf by developing mobile IE for Android. Firefox and Opera already are there. The best Silverlight client should be IE9 mobile -- for Android, BlackBerry OS, iOS and WIndows Phone.

3. Formally make Kinect a development platform. Kinect is unofficially a platform already, and that's a good start. However Xbox and Windows PCs aren't enough. Imagine Kinect as one part of retail kiosk user interfaces, for instance. I'd love to see Kinect, using technologies like Microsoft Tag, allow people to remotely log in to a personalized Kinect profile they could take everywhere the innovation is commercially deployed -- coupled with other NUI motifs. The time to start is now, and MIX is the right venue to begin building apps and supporting devices that could be deployed as before long as 24 months.

5. Release Microsoft Expression Studio for iPad. Some of the best design applications already are available for Apple's tablet. Microsoft should be there, too. Designers have used Wacom and competing pen tablets for years. Wacom even provided the stylus drivers for Tablet PC operating system. The finger and touch are a more natural user interface -- and there are touchscreen or Bluetooth keyboards, too, for designers who need them. Expression is a natural for iPad. Go there, Microsoft, and bring along some visual development tools, too.

6. Bring Office to non-Microsoft OS devices. Gartner projects global media tablet sales of 69 million units this year, generating $29.4 billion in revenue, and 468 million smartphone sales. As I explained on Friday, Microsoft can succeed by delivering the best agnostic software backed by Azure services. There's a huge market of Office and potential Office users Microsoft can support on mobile devices. If Gartner and IDC are to be believed, Android smartphone OS share will be around 40 percent this year. During both firms put Windows Phone as No. 2 in 2015, share would be around 20 percent or lower compared to Android's projected 45 percent share.

That's a huge addressable market for Office Mobile that taps into either the productivity suite desktop software or the cloud for fullest functionality. What? Microsoft wants all those Android device owners using Google Apps? I don't think so. The time to announce agnostic Office Mobile is now and to provide developers with APIs and SDKs for supporting apps or services.

7. Debut mobile money platform. There are two killer applications for the connected world -- sync, which Microsoft does pretty then, and mobile money. There is lots of buzz about NFC for providing transactions, just as debit card purchases, using mobile handsets. Microsoft should launch an agnostic mobile money platform supporting NFC and other mechanisms, including barcodes, for making purchases and using cellular handsets as portable bank accounts. Release the SDK at MIX and start collecting developer feedback suddenly.

Microsoft should lay out its mobile roadmap.For the moment, there are big changes up ahead, which Microsoft after all hasn't officially confirmed. The end of the line for Windows Embedded Compact. The migration of mobile and tablets to Windows 8 and AppX. A single, light-weight base OS for all platforms. It will work on both ARM and x86 architectures, allowing Intel an open door into the mobile game.

7 Things Brand Joe W. Should Do....1. Stay away from MS2. Stay even furthermore away from Apple3. The 7's the 10's do and don'ts isn't that a bit old fashioned you think on the web? So don't use it!4. Sneak peaking at others blogs tech writings and pretending it's your idea5. Buy a roller coaster for your private garden to keep yourself busy6. Write in a white pen color on a white background please7. Start to forget that coffee is good for your brains

The truth do work

Also mobile Office is only important to people that to tell the truth do work. Smartphones and tablets are very much a consumer market these days.So having Office on WP7 ONLY, is an advantage that will push some corporations to adopt the Microsoft platform over others. I know our is, because of Office and Sharepoint.

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