Microsoft Working With Suppliers on Designs for Watch-Like Device

An anonymous reader writes with news that Microsoft may be working on a smartwatch. "The modern smartwatch market hardly even exists, and yet it's already starting to feel very crowded. Hot on the heels of plans (official and otherwise) from Apple and Samsung, the Wall Street Journal reports that Microsoft has also been shopping around for parts to build a 'watch-style device.' While details are scarce as to what that would entail, unnamed supplier executives tell the newspaper that Microsoft has been asking for 1.5-inch touchscreens. We wouldn't count on seeing an ultra-small Surface anytime soon, however -- these executives say they've visited Microsoft's campus, but they don't know whether the Windows developer is fully committed to its wrist-worn endeavor or just experimenting. If the project exists at all, of course. Still, there's finally a glimmer of hope for anyone who's still mourning the loss of their beloved SPOT watches."

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Re:A smart watch?

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Reddit's not better. Try to find references for the PC meltdown on /r/Microsoft. They're trying to pretend it didn't happen, and the stories get unlinked. Let's not even talk about /r/science, where echo chamber defines science.

/. has some special properties including its write-only nature and its no-censorship stance. That you can't undo stuff here is a very special thing. The moderation may often suck but every comment and story ever posted (except for one) is still here to be read. And that one can still be read somewhere else, linked from the story where /. said "we have to delete this one for legal reasons, so here's where you can read what it said."

It makes for a sincere honesty, a more intense self-editing to know that once out push "submit" you had better mean it or "you should have known better".

You're not going to get that anywhere else. Like Theregister has snark as its raison d'etre, /. has its commitment to letting us make fools of ourselves any way we want if we will agree to make that foolishness immortal. That's why we don't post here in our right names for the most part. We all have views we espouse and feel confident about - but we've got to put bread on the table too, and putting our honest thoughts behind our right names would get in the way of that - especially if we're wrong, since the Internet neither forgives nor forgets.