Microsoft Looking to Join the Smart Watch Race

[ALange]

lol @ microsoft..

Another useless comment. Well done.

 

[hexonxonx]

No, just a logic and reality fetish. Your opinion isn't fact. Neither is mine. Just reporting what I've observed since this whole smartwatch idea popped up. Clearly there is a market for a smartwatch whether you wish to acknowledge it or not. The Pebble wouldn't have gone over so gangbusters if there wasn't. Just imagine if a well known company like Apple puts one out. Ka-ching.

I do find it interesting why so many are so overtly hostile to watches though. Now maybe if we were talking about ties, I'd understand, but a watch?

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.

 

[ALange]

Are you saying that Apple is copying others?

Are you trying to say that they don't? U r living on another planet or something?

 

[TheMTtakeover]

Agreed, my Windows 7 and 8 machines are every bit as stable as my mac

Same here. Both Win 7 and Win 8 are incredibly stable.

 

[jpross123]

Serious why do Apple fans have this obsession with the blue screen of death? I haven't encountered one on Windows for years.

On topic, I just can't see any of these smart watches really being any more than a niche market.

You are right, don't get me started on the Kernel Panic

 

[ALange]

Btw. a good lecture about smart watches:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smartwatch

Enjoy reading , and stop saying that someone is copying Apple.

 

[Bantz]

Will it tell time?

I hope it has alarms a lot better than Apples which dont work when certain days pass.

 

[johncrab]

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.

 

[ALange]

I'd like to see MS get back to thinking forward instead of trying to carve out a niche in someone else's market.

Just switch MS with Apple, and this quote fit perfectly.

 

[Madonepro]

Hope Microsoft has updated it's photocopiers! Is there such a thing as a 3D Copier?

Bertrand Serlet must be pissing himself, Microsoft + an original product = Happy North Koreans.

 

[andrewzz]

They may join the race now but they'll still be five to ten years behind Apple, as usual.....

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.

 

[satcomer]

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.

 

[komodrone]

Windows 7 is just as stable as OSX.

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)

 

[Oletros]

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)

This has nothing to do with stability

 

[lzyprson]

Might as well!! ESpecially considering the fact that MS Surface sales are doing soooo well!!!!!!!

HAHA!!!

 

[glsillygili]

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

 

[komodrone]

This has nothing to do with stability

It has everything to do with stability.

 

[flux73]

I will laugh my ass off in 2014 if everyone has a watch on the market EXCEPT Apple.

 

[apolloa]

Is it just me or does that Suunto look damn sexy! Now THAT'S some cool looking tech.

 

[rjohnstone]

It has everything to do with stability.

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.

 

[apolloa]

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?

 

[turtlez]

looks like everyone is choosing to trust Apple with leading the market now after they criticised the iPad and said it would never sell.

 

[komodrone]

You're confusing stability with compatibility.

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.

 

[turtlez]

Just switch MS with Apple, and this quote fit perfectly.

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.

 

[Divebus]

Serious why do Apple fans have this obsession with the blue screen of death? I haven't encountered one on Windows for years.

I just got a blue screen Saturday on 2008 Server - took out the last 3 hours of work on a video compression farm and we almost didn't make air for a TV series that started Sunday.