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Microsoft Looking to Join the Smart Watch Race
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To see how popular watches still are, one can go to eBay and do a search for ant watch brand, Casio, Timex, Citizen, you name it. Look at the bids. Almost every watch will have bids placed and or but it now options. I bought ten watches on eBay over this past year, all 1955-1980 windup/automatic Timex watches that still run and keep great time.
Btw. a good lecture about smart watches:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smartwatch
Enjoy reading , and stop saying that someone is copying Apple.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smartwatch
Enjoy reading , and stop saying that someone is copying Apple.
I hope it has alarms a lot better than Apples which dont work when certain days pass.
Back in the Win95/98 days, MS tried this. They partnered with a company that built a watch which could hold contact information from early versions of Outlook. Data was loaded by putting the watch into receive mode and holding it up to a square on the screen that flashed to transmit data. It was a total flop but showed that MS was thinking ahead.
Today MS is playing catch-up on all fronts. They are followers and not leaders, obsessed with moving into a market already dominated and following Ballmer's principle of "dominate at all costs". Yeah, the Zune was great. So is the Surface. I'd like to see MS get back to thinking forward instead of trying to carve out a niche in someone else's market.
Today MS is playing catch-up on all fronts. They are followers and not leaders, obsessed with moving into a market already dominated and following Ballmer's principle of "dominate at all costs". Yeah, the Zune was great. So is the Surface. I'd like to see MS get back to thinking forward instead of trying to carve out a niche in someone else's market.
Dang it, I hope they come up with the iWatch "Killer" soon. We all like a good laugh. That, and I want to see Ballmer dance on stage again.
Microsoft was into Spot Technology LONG before the current vaporware craze of smart watches. Even as a Mac person I see just a continuation of this old technology.
not true. Take out that Windows 7 hard drive, plug it into a new computer. It will fail to start up. I even tried the system preparation tool, still didn't work for me. I get an error "Windows could not finish configuring the system" when booting.
OSX on the otherhand, will not have any problems moving over to a new computer. I worked at DIRECTV as an IT intern, and observed this millions of times (both Windows 7 failing and OSX succeeding in moving to new workstations)
What "Smart watch race" ? there is only 2 smart watches the pebble and the sony smartwatch, and the ipod nano 6gen made sony make the smartwatch. So THERE IS NO "SMARTWATCH RACE" there hasnt even been a watch announced by any corporation. so stop with these bogus smartwatch stories
You're confusing stability with compatibility.
Pull a drive out of an first gen Intel Macbook and try and put it into a newer Macbook. It will fail to boot.
Why? It lacks the proper drivers.
I just love all the hypocritical comments about MS copying, seeing as the Microsoft based smart watch featured in this article was probably launched before Apple even thought of iOS 
Yeah Apple, copy much?
Yeah Apple, copy much?
Try sticking the HD into a new computer, boot (which tries to repair itself), remove it from the new computer and put it back into the original computer. You'll find that it no longer boots on either computer. That's a huge stability issue.
so someone is not allowed to take a pre existing concept and rework it? We should all be using Flinstones cars by your way of thinking.