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Goodbye To the SPOT Watch
Starturtle sends along an Engadget article on the demise of the Microsoft SPOT Watch. We've discussed related devices a few times in the past; here's a picture of one. "After a long, painful, nearly anonymous ride on the wrists of a select few uber-geeks, Microsoft's finally throwing in the towel on one of its longstanding pet projects: the SPOT watch. The writing's been on the wall for some time; the applications and content available to the watches haven't been updated in ages, and indeed, the entire line of Abacus Smart Watch 2006 models — the only type being recently offered — has been discontinued and out of stock for a few months. For what it's worth, MSN Direct's program manager is quick to note that the underlying technology most certainly isn't going away."
Microsoft is the computer industry's Dr. Death. Here are other things from Microsoft that are dead, or declared eventually dead:
Death date set: Windows XP
Declared dead: FoxPro database programming language
Dead soon: PlaysForSure was corporate-speak for "we will kill it and destroy access to your music any time we want". Apparently the reason Microsoft executives wanted to reassure buyers by saying "Plays for Sure" is that they knew it was not sure.
Now that you've freely admitted that you're using multiple accounts to control conversation on Slashdot, where are you going to go from here?
Let's take a look at the progression of the perception of you as a community member, shall we?
- a respected remember of the community, to
- a Linux zealot but still a respected one, to
- an irrational Linux zealot that everyone sort of sidles away from like a bad smell, to
- a lying, irrational zealot that everybody tried to ignore, to
- a nutjob who has conversations with himself and is the laughing stock of Slashdot, to
- self-confessed manipulator of people who he pretends to respect but clearly considers pawns and one-night stands to get his obsessive message to the masses.
Is there any down from there? I'm beginning to wonder.
Also, you might want to check your posting history - when you went back to just your Twitter account for a while, you started getting modded up again to 3 or 4 despite starting at -1... but now you've gone back to shilling yourself with even more sockpuppets, you've started getting modded down again. Can you not make the obvious connection here?
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