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Microsoft Shows Off Watch, Portable Media Player

Posted by timothy on from the like-the-rumored-video-ipod dept.

gmt-time points to this New York Times article with a report from the in-progress Consumer Electronics Show, excerpting "Microsoft, continuing its effort to extend its reach beyond computers, today introduced designs for a new class of watch that gives more than the time and a pocket audio and video player." According to the article, several manufacturers are committed to producing both the watches (mentioned yesterday as well) and the audio/video players. I wonder if they'll play Ogg Vorbis and my DivX;) files ...

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  1. Old news by Gothmolly · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Is it me, or is nothing on Slashdot timely anymore? This was on Yahoo news a few days ago. Note to editors: just because YOU haven't heard of something doesn't make it "news".

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  2. Oh look... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait
    Yet another chance for the Slashbots to sit back and issue impossibly lame zingers and smug derisions against a Microsoft product that will, alone, probably generate more revenue than that of every OSS "company" that is miraculously still around.

    Yes, yes, everyone knows you don't like Microsoft, but if one considers the amount of time spent by the Salshherd following its every move, it looks more and more like a hatred that is rooted firmly in jealousy. The anti-Microsoft flamefest that this thread will surely become is ridiculously old news and, at this rate, so is Slashdot.

  3. OH Boy! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    We love FM. Ever heard of the FM capture effect Microsoft? Well, I will OWNZ your watches.

    Microsoft watches the new SPAM vehicle.

  4. No thanks by Amsterdam+Vallon · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    More wireless data zipping around through the air = Higher chance of contracting a cancerous disease

    Christ, if everyone had a cellphone and one of these new wireless watches, the average lifespan would probably drop to 40 years of age, and cancer would offset AIDS as the number one killer.

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  5. Re:Reboots ... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait
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