Tuesday, while listing to Microsoft Technical Evangelist John Westin, I learned that  Natal for the Xbox will cost under $100.  This is a great price point in my opinion for the experience a person will have.

Microsoft is not just letting the Natal interface stop with the Xbox.  They are taking it and and the Windows 7 multi-touch to all devices.  There is a video at OfficeLabs that shows what Microsoft thinks will be the future in the next 10 years.  Everything in the video is a working prototype with the exception of the leg room on the Boeing 787 mockup.  My favorite product from the video has to be the newspaper.

Sir Slur

This is where it gets weird.  I could see the new space everywhere except in explore and chkdsk.  They were both telling me that no addition space had been added.  I could not find a way to get the server to recognize the extra space, not even a reboot worked.

This is when I took to the Internet.  I could not find anything that talked about this and Windows Server 2008.  I did find something about this for Windows Server 2003. The article talked about a DISKPART function that is not readily documented.  It is extend file system.

It worked like a champ.  Within a second of running this command, the server could recognize the addition storage.

Here are the commands to run once you are in DISKPART:

 

DISKPART> select volume 1 

DISKPART> extend filesystem

DiskPart successfully extended the file system on the volume.

DISKPART> exit

Leaving DiskPart...

Here is a link to the article for Windows Server 2003:

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/832316

Sir Slur