Linked by Thom Holwerda on Sat 7th Nov 2009 00:24 UTC
Whether you like Microsoft or not, the Redmond giant does have one thing going for it: the company's research division. Working together with several universities and other institutions, Microsoft Research works on the soft and hardware of the future, ranging from research operating systems to insanely cool things like what Microsoft's chief research and strategy officer Craig Mundie showed off during the Microsoft College Tour '09 (more videos).
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This is basically what I imagined as well. With my iPhone I actually already have some of this, it's a phone/PDA but when I'm on my home wifi network it also controls my media, being able to control iTunes in my case. Now, if we just had something like that but obviously based on an open protocol so people could use whatever devices they want. Then, once this starts getting built into other household devices, we'd really have something cool.
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This is basically what I imagined as well. With my iPhone I actually already have some of this, it's a phone/PDA but when I'm on my home wifi network it also controls my media, being able to control iTunes in my case. Now, if we just had something like that but obviously based on an open protocol so people could use whatever devices they want. Then, once this starts getting built into other household devices, we'd really have something cool.