Windows Vista Used in Cancer Research

Here’s a link to an intriguing story on CRN showing how Windows Vista is being used to help cancer researchers at the Scripps Research Institute in La Jolla, California, to meet a real need that until now had no effective solution. Researchers from a variety of specialty areas need to be able to study and make comments on shared graphical data in a timely way. "It sounds really simple, but there is no good way of doing this today," said Peter Kuhn, a professor of cellular biology at Scripps who heads a lab focused on cancer research. "We'll go in with a pathologist, an oncologist, a cellular biologist and a physicist, and the traditional way of sharing data was to package up a bundle of JPEGs. The pathologist would open them up in Photoshop and start scribbling on paper."

No longer is this the case: because of the sophistication enabled by using a suite of MS products, the graphical modeling and analysis that was previously relegated to paper is now shared via Office and then stored on SharePoint.

Read the article and find out how Windows Vista, WPF, SharePoint 2007, and Office 2007 are being used together at this test site to provide an integrated research experience.

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• Anonymous
  January 01, 2003
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• Anonymous
  August 23, 2006
  If you watched or were in any aspect of medicine  prior to MSFT and Windows and the internet getting off the ground and Windows 95 getting boxes on desktops,  the impact of the genesis of Windows and Office on medical research and clinical care has been immeasurable.  The ability of servers and data bases to enable multicentered trials and organize projects like the one the Gates Foundation is launching to coordinate an HIV vaccine is immeasurable.
  
  Prior to Windows (and other OS's ) medical personnel and instututions  had to spend significant amounts of money on libraries.  That paradigm has shifted and will shift a terrific amount.  Some major research instututions protesting the expense of journals that costs hundreds of thousands of dollars a year, are electing to publish straight to the web much to the chagrin of  the publishing houses.
  
  As I type this, the Windows OS has 96.97 percent of the world market.
  
  http://news.softpedia.com/news/Microsoft-Owns-96-97-of-Global-OS-Market-33363.shtml
  
  http://www.internet-nexus.com/2006/08/onestat-windows-continues-to-dominate.htm
  
  The contribution of Windows and Office, and other software applications and their impact on physicians and other health personnel and hospitals coordinating their work and data, retrieving patient or treatment info has been exponentially profound.
  
  Someone can practice medicine now and easily assimilate the information needed to keep up or treat with a few mouse clicks or have it channeled to their inbox.  If you become reasonably good with search engines, that becomes very easy.
  
  Had Bill Gates never thought of the Bill and Melinda Gates foundation, the contribution of Gates, Ballmer, and Jim Allchin in herding Windows since 1990, and the development of Office,and the related servers and data base servers and countless others has revamped the way medicine is practiced,  researched and delivered dramatically providing rapid tools to gain the highest quality information needed rapidly wherever someone is in a mobile environment.
  
  It has revamped the teaching as well.
  
  HKLM