More recent chatter suggests the Microsoft smart watch will be coming from the team behind the Xbox, Kinect and related accessories.
Anybody remember the Microsoft-Timex DataLink watch?
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Depending on who you believe, perfecting the console could take six to 12 months, which will seem like donkey's years to gamers, but infinity to Sony, which will have to sit back and watch as Microsoft's XBox 360 gnaws into its market share.
Netflix users will now be able to browse the entire catalog instead of simply loading their queue, and Microsoft has also gotten its Party Watch system in order, so you'll be able to heckle videos with your online friends.
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It was "not a beautiful thing to watch, " Joseph diGenova, a Microsoft adviser and former U.S. attorney told The Wall Street Journal.
What people care about is being able to seamlessly watch content, and as much as Microsoft wants to hope that the Content Fairy will magically sprinkle WMVs all across the land, it's just not gonna happen.
We had heard this rumor on the internets a little while ago, and now it looks like Swatch is really going to come out with a SPOT watch (SPOT, of course, being Microsoft's Smart Personal Object Technology that uses FM radio signals to send data to watches, like news, stocks, instant messages, etc.).
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When a user wants to watch a video on YouTube or download a patch from Microsoft, I need to interconnect with other networks that can get me there.
Microsoft announced a partnership with ESPN, for instance, that lets people watch the BCS college football championship game over Xbox Live.
The "Watch This Space" Award goes to the Abacus Smart Watch 2006 , a great improvement over previous smart watches using Microsoft's SPOT technology albeit one that Fossil itself seemed less excited about than the category runner-up, the Fossil Men's Bluetooth Watch .
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Like Microsoft, Sony has been supporting the use of its current console as a way to watch movies as well as play games.
We commonly associate extreme secrecy around a product design with Apple, but it now looks to be in vogue with all the major technology companies: just days after Samsung revealed the Galaxy S III's secret sauce, Microsoft has explained to TechRadar that it developed its surprise new Surface tablets under a similarly tight watch.
In demonstrations, Microsoft employees showed how Kinect can be used for video chats as well as to listen to music and watch movies with friends in other locations.
Microsoft this morning announced announced a new set of video services for Xbox Live, including the ability to watch certain programming both live and on demand from paid TV service providers Comcast and Verizon, among other sources.
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Once the last 10 yards of rail road is built, and I reckon we're looking at 2007, and we can watch our Broadband TV actually on our TV set, then that will be the point when Microsoft and co move from being complementary offers to becoming genuine competitors to Sky, NTL, and Freeview.
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