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Microsoft's Home Of Tomorrow Has No Bathroom

Posted by chrisd on from the have-to-go-potty dept.

Starman9x writes "Over at the The Toronto Star reporter Rachel Ross got a tour of Microsoft's home of the future. She writes with an appropriate amount of humor, given all the easy targets Microsoft has set up. While the writeup is light and witty, there is an unspoken Orwellian undertone to it -- after all, do we really want Microsoft to have that much control over things?"

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  1. Funnier than the line about no toilets... by surprise_audit · · Score: 2, Informative
    Did nobody else see this paragraph?

    If their friends are online, they can join in to their "music session" and listen to whatever tune is playing at their house. (The Recording Industry of America, a music industry trade group that got their knickers in a knot over file swapping software such as Napster, is going to love that feature.)

    I swear, I laughed out loud!