After a lacklustre response to its Windows Vista release, the retirement of its celebrity founder and new threats to its dominance from plucky new rivals ^[1], Microsoft is certainly entering a challenging phase.

Many people no longer associate the tech giant with intuitive, user-friendly innovations. At some point in time, it stopped being perceived as a company that delivered technology breakthroughs that made people’s lives easier and started being seen by some as a monolithic ogre – more defensive than creative – protecting it’s massive stash using all means at its disposal.

Yet Microsoft is showing signs of renewal, and the below Future Vision Montage ^[2] (presented at this year’s Wharton Business Technology Conference ^[3]) proves it. It might contain more fiction than science, but this showcase of Microsoft’s futuristic product line, circa 2019, contains a mouth-watering array of technologies that will deliver seemless interactivity beyond the desktop.

Unfortunately, it will take a decade to know whether this will all come to pass. For now, we have a slick video, so sit back and enjoy.

(via Long Zheng ^[4]. You can also view a longer, 5 minute version of the video there.)