Microsoft Launches Windows Phone 7

Microsoft has unveiled details about its latest mobile operating system, Windows Phone 7. Mashable has the deets. Highlights include Xbox Live & Zune integration with social media status updates. This is Microsoft’s promo video found at YouTube from windowsphone.

The One Big Thing: An End To Input Devices

The One Big Thing you need to know about this week is Microsoft’s 3D video camera for the Xbox 360. We are on the verge of realizing the vision of ubiquitous computing, the idea that computers are tools that we use, not devices that we focus our attention on. Eye glasses are tools that enhance, improve [...]

Microsoft Plans Virtual Spectator Sport

March 14, 2006 · Categories: Marketing Trends, Video Games · View Comments 
Last year I discussed how Video Game Tournaments Point to A Future Mass Medium, if console makers offer an audience or spectator mode for online video game play. Last week, GameDaily BIZ reported that Microsoft’s 5,000th patent "covers technologies that will be featured in Xbox 360 games, brings new innovation to online gaming by allowing [...]

Mobile Computing

This sure smells like a viral marketing campaign. First there was news of an Origami Project website, then there were pictures of Microsoft’s alleged handheld video game console slash mobile computing device, and now a video promo of the device at YouTube and Google Video. The device is apparently Microsoft’s answer to Apple’s iPod Video, [...]

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