Microsoft, which is trying to move its software from desktops to people’s hands and pockets, on Wednesday unveiled plans for a portable media player and a radio-linked wristwatch. The announcements by Microsoft Chairman and founder Bill Gates come as the world’s largest software company mounts a push beyond its existing market stronghold in computer operating systems toward a range of devices such as Tablet PCs, cars, monitors and even exercise bikes.
Microsoft Unveils Smart Watches, Media Players
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Eugenia deleted my post!
It seems she likes to remove comments that she disagrees with…
“Whats the time”?
“I don’t know, my watch has crashed”!
Only MS watches can!
…or Microsoft is transforming itself from a Windows company to a WMP/.NET/CE company?
(And yes, that makes me scared.)
Steve ‘monkeyboy’: Gee, Bill what do you want to do tonight?
Bill: The same thing we do every night Steve. Try to take over the world!
No, she didn’t delete you post, it’s just moderated down (see the ‘View moderated down comments’ link on the bottom of all comments)
From the article:
One of those new Apple offerings, called Keynote, is positioned to compete with Microsoft’s PowerPoint, while a Web browser called Safari could replace Microsoft’s Internet Explorer for Mac users.
“I doubt what they’ve done is as rich as PowerPoint,” said Gates, who added he had not seen Apple’s program.
I thought MicroSoft always made it a point to overestimate their competitors? Keynote looks very good, and in presentation apps that seems to be key.
Although I am not so sure, I guess duplicating the functionality of powerpoint is not that hard, however some people who compare these two products usually forget the fact that, what makes powerpoint powerpoint is usually not only the program itself, but also other office programs and the integration with it. So overall, keynote in my mind is a very bad move. I don’t know why someone should spend 100$ for a product which they can get it with the Office itself, by simply spending more. By the way the price of the product itself shows that some idiots who accuse Microsoft for overpricing Office were wrong.
I couldn’t understand Bill Gates on this issue. I thought all those devices will merge into one. For example why do I need a smart watch or other lots of smart small devices, if I can converge all of them in to a Palm or Pocket PC device. I lost the guy here. If someone has an idea why we need all those different devices I am ready to hear it.
Your post was useless and it was simply trolling. Yours and CrackButter’s posts. It is moderated down, it is NOT deleted. Get your act together and write things useful to people, not bitter bullshit.
I thought MicroSoft always made it a point to overestimate their competitors? Keynote looks very good, and in presentation apps that seems to be key.
Well, some of Microsoft’s most major mistakes is to underestimate competition from the most unlikely sources. Take Linux for example, if Microsoft didn’t see it as a competition way earlier, I doubt they would have lost so much server market power to it.
Idealistic: Merge everything in one
Technically: Doing so makes it either super expensive, super bulky or both.
Marketing-wise: How many people you know would throw away their watches, PDAs, handphones, media players, etc. for something that merges everything into one? little, my guess.
>>>>iTake Linux for example, if Microsoft didn’t see it as a competition way earlier, I doubt they would have lost so much server market power to it.
They didn’t, it was the UNIX market that lost most of the market shares, not Microsoft itself.
Even if it was the UNIX market that is giving share to Linux, Linux is getting more and more dominant. Why? Previously, there are dozens of different types of incompatible UNIXes, now it is mainly Linux. In other words, Microsoft isn’t all that dominant as it was before.
Besides, Microsoft have suffered a lot because of Linux in the web server market.