Microsoft, a rather successful international company that over the years has developed products like Windows and Office products like Word and Excel are now starting to look at Gapminder to find ways to better visualize complex data in a understandable way.

Kevin Schofield, General Manager at Microsoft Research recently presented some of the tools that Microsoft are working on at the moment, at Microsofts annual convergence conference on 14 March. Among other things he showed a animated graph technology similar to Trendalyzer and credited Gapminder.

This is of course not yet a product from Microsoft but just a first demo shown at a customer conference and there are no news on when or if this is something that will be available for end users.

Gapminder is happy see that Microsoft realizes the potential

• Read transcript fro Kevin Shofileds keynote
• Se video on demand ("Gapminder-tool" is intoduced 28 min. into the web-cast.)