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 ...

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Is it just me or does anyone else wonder why

[tyrani]

Why do people continue to buy Microsoft hardware? They have a long track record of introducing refined hardware that they only support for at the most a few years.

Remember the Microsoft Phone, or the Sidewinder Gamepad? Even the recent Microsoft Broadband home router is starting to have some support issues.

Although I think that Microsoft releases some interesting hardware, I certainly question spending a couple of hundred bucks on hardware from a company that won't support it.

Re:No! Trustworthy Wrists host watch.

[geekee]

Yeah, at Apple they innovate by throwing out their old completely ass-backwards OS and use someone elses who gave it to them for free.