If the cheapest way of getting something in your living room which will play movies, stream video content from your Media Center PC, if it's the Microsoft vision, or directly off the network if it's the Sony vision, for 300 bucks, that's a lot cheaper than today's media streamers or even TiVo-like devices.
Microsoft grand vision to have one platform that works equally well on a range of devices has not been implemented well.
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If you can, check out how Microsoft intends to deliver on this vision at the Microsoft Management Summit happening this week at the Mandalay Bay Conventions Center in Las Vegas.
Microsoft's vision, as Gates describes it, is now one shared broadly by the industry: computing becomes increasingly centered around connecting individuals.
Microsoft's vision of the gaming console as the window into the living room is a big, big bet, and one that clearly hasn't paid off thus far.
We applaud AMD's and Microsoft's vision in creating the DirectX 11 API and this amazing new hardware and we can say without hesitation that it represents the future of gaming.
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Add to that the voice and motion-control abilities already available with the Xbox Kinect system, and you can see Microsoft's vision for making the console a centerpiece for all electronic entertainment.
This commitment extends Microsoft's original vision of a PC on every desktop and in every home and is part of Microsoft's corporate citizenship efforts, which are increasingly focused on creating opportunities for youth around the world.
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Joining Microsoft will accelerate that vision and give us access to the technologies, expertise and resources we'll need to scale and innovate.
The Kinect might be a great way to entertain your friends and family, but Microsoft has a bigger vision for the device.
In a broader context, it is hard to determine what the strategic vision is at Microsoft.
Microsoft, with no articulated vision for personal cloud and Windows 8 expected sometime in 2012, lags significantly.
At Microsoft, we have a vision of CRM as a single system that provides support to the whole business.
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In fact, Gates' vision, which puts Microsoft at the center of the Internet's next phase, assumes the company will not be split up, and he gave no indication that Microsoft has an alternate plan of action should the government order the company's division.
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These discussions were based on a vision that the online businesses of Microsoft and Yahoo!
"There seems to be lack of vision about how you compete with Microsoft, " Reeves says.
The tech press is looking for signs of vision from other companies, including Microsoft.
Gates immediately perceived that VisiOn was a major threat to Microsoft and especially to something he was just starting to contemplate, Windows.
Last November, Microsoft outlined a product road map for its intelligent systems vision.
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The TITAN card offers two dual-link DVI, HDMI and Display Port 1.2 and also supports Microsoft DirectX 11.1 API and is NVIDIA 3D vision-Ready, SLI-Ready.
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He was, by all reports, a good programmer in his own right, and had vision and courage, but was sidetracked from the rise of Microsoft by a struggle with disease.
At MMS, Microsoft will be demonstrating a private cloud management stack that builds on virtualization and fully enables this new vision of private cloud management.
And speak they did--with LarryPageLarry Page of Google showing off a new video-download licensing system, BillGatesBill Gates of Microsoft touting his company's upcoming operating-system refresh, and Howard Stringer of Sony laying out his vision of the future for home entertainment.
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