Microsoft Releases ‘Seadragon’ for iPhone [Briefly]

In a shock move, Apple rival Microsoft yesterday released their Seadragon technology onto the iPhone. Based on Ajax technologies and bringing deep-zoom, the app is designed for making viewing enormous (high resolution) photos, a breeze. The app comes with some default sample content to give you an idea of what it does, but with MS’s own software tools, you can have a go at creating your own content for it too!

With MS releasing Seadragon from Microsoft’s Livelabs, many users are now speculating this is the start of something great. Something revolutionary in itself. Finally, Microsoft has realised and taken note of the potential and market appeal of the iPhone – and not just in the consumer market either – the enterprise too.

With this first step, the second won’t be too far behind, with discussion and rumor now falling to Microsoft’s own web-version of Office making it’s debut on the App Store! Now that would be one Microsoft app I wouldn’t reject, ever – There’s no doubting MS Office completely blows iWork out of the water, for most office tasks.