Microsoft has revealed their latest invention, a Windows based social networking phone through a live webcast on April 12, 2010. The launch, as tech support officials stated, is the culmination of ‘Pink Project’. The prolonged venture has finally come up with a successful ending with two models, Kin One and Kin Two.

‘We’re For Sharing’ was the slogan at webcast, which included the message “Make Your Network More Social”. The phone will run on the Verizon network. Both the models, Kin One and Kin Two, feature touch screen and slide-out key pad. Kin One is more compact while the other offers comparatively larger screen and keyboard.

The ‘Pink’ Line will present a more dynamic interface of Microsoft to the mobile spectrum. A high resolution camera of 5 to 8 mega pixels and high-end video recording capacity has also been included to the feature slot.

Microsoft, the giant operating system developer, made its debut in mobile phone manufacturing market in 2008. They have acquired ‘Danger’- Kin mobile device is the first product of the acquisition. As been declared by the officials, Kin Social Networking Phones will be available from Verizon Wireless in the US this May.

Various innovative Microsoft applications are coming up to furnish Windows with newer features and functionalities. Windows SideShow, Sidebar Gadgets, Windows Live Essentials and other tech support applications can be named among the recent highlights. Now get ready for the latest release which has been announced recently for the Microsoft enthusiasts- Geolocation Sensor for Windows 7 platform.

This specialized software used to deduce geographic location of user or in other words it tracks the IP addresses of the systems and thereby determines the country, organization or other information. “Geosense for Windows” as been named by the Microsoft team, is a free software-driven location sensor designed to work with a combination of several methods to calculate visitor’s location. IP address lookup, Wi-Fi triangulation and cellular signal triangulation are the fundamental tasks performed by the software.

So, how does it help your computing? As our computer support team has explained, Geosense can make your desktop computing experience much more interactive and exciting. The location tracker software built into Windows 7 enables your PC to adapt to the present location without having a hardware GPS module. Thus your system will roughly get an idea in which location you are in the world and consequently be able to provide a localized computing experience.

You can add location information on your desktop to popular social networking services apart from the sidebar gadget displaying local weather, location-based printing functionality etc. However, the privacy issue will be your responsibility and for that you can think of a guard dog while installing Geosense.