Microsoft Shows Off Watch, Portable Media Player

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 ...

Comments

And the point is?

[oliverthered]

Ok,
The Weather, umm... look at the sky, that's how I get my forcast.

Sport, well GPL's a fun game to help play against Microsoft.(I never did see the attraction in watching somone else play)

The Time, umm... I already have a watch thankyou, maybe not atomicly perfect but it'll do.

Music, lar lar lar lar, lar lar ,lar lar, any one name that tune? Humm.. Wistle, be creative fine, music on my watch, boring.

Can't you guys relax?

[Chanc_Gorkon]

I REALLY hate to see everyone bashing Microsoft every time they attempt something new. Sure, it may possibly exend the so called "monopoly" but the thing is how may times have we seen something like this fail? Now Microsoft is trying their hand at it. Will it work? Somehow, I doubt it. The things I hate seeing brought out AGAIN:

1. Oh no now my will BSOD! BSOD's are actually getting to be less of a problem. This thing will probably not have a regular NT kernel, but probably something related to CE or more likely, something totally different. CE, for me has been very reliable (in the PocketPC form). I usually don't have a problem with CE in general. PocketPC problems are usually something wrong with the device or the vendor specific code. Usually with in a few months or so most of the bugs get worked out via flashes and they just work.

2. Oh no now I will have to reboot my 4 times a day! Even if you did, it would only take 2 seconds or less to do and I doubt you'd have to reset it 4 times a day!

3. Oh now I need a DRM compliant ! This is just bashing for sake of bashing. Yeah, DRM sucks, but in every implementation I have seen (WMP 9) it allows you to disable it! Also, you can always download Winamp 3 and use it.

Your bashing the product before you even truely see it because Microsoft is attached to it. This kind of thing is just Juvenile and

Oh and these things usually come from those who use a Microsoft mouse on thier Linux boxes. You got to admit that the come up with some great mice!

Re:Can't you guys relax?

[BWJones]

I REALLY hate to see everyone bashing Microsoft every time they attempt something new. Sure, it may possibly exend the so called "monopoly" but the thing is how may times have we seen something like this fail? Now Microsoft is trying their hand at it. Will it work? Somehow, I doubt it.

Perhaps it is because Microsoft really is doing *nothing* new. Name one innovative product to come out of Microsoft that they have not purchased from someone else or outright copied........Clippy? Bob? Please. People are reluctant to want to support Microsoft because of bloated and inefficient programming and third rate design and implementation among many other reasons.

Oh no now my will BSOD! BSOD's are actually getting to be less of a problem.

But they still happen fairly frequently. Just yesterday on an XP box, I got a blue screen from plugging in a Firewire HD. On the other hand, I have been using OS X heavily since September of 2000 and have had one kernel panic (when running the beta), and experienced a hard crash maybe twice (post beta), and one of them was my fault with bad code. Or for more of a portable OS, look at Palm OS. It is small, fast, reliable and I have never seen it crash.

Oh no now I will have to reboot my 4 times a day! Even if you did, it would only take 2 seconds or less to do and I doubt you'd have to reset it 4 times a day!

And when it does, do I need to reset the time or re-synch the time?

Oh now I need a DRM compliant ! This is just bashing for sake of bashing. Yeah, DRM sucks, but in every implementation I have seen (WMP 9) it allows you to disable it! Also, you can always download Winamp 3 and use it.

Or I can use Quicktime, the best media solution out there that also happens to be open standards compliant and no DRM junk.

Your bashing the product before you even truely see it because Microsoft is attached to it.

It's expected outcomes based upon a number of years of proven behavior. If I touch the stovetop four times, and get burned four times, what is the likelyhood that I will not get burned if I touch it again?