How realistic are the concepts in Microsoft's Productivity Future Vision video?

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    [video=youtube_share;bwj2s_5e12U]http://youtu.be/a6cNdhOKwi0[/video]
     
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  2. digitalpoint

    digitalpoint Overlord of no one Staff

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    Probably relatively accurate... unfortunately for Microsoft, they don't have a track record of inventing much of anything themselves... just taking other companies ideas and running it through their marketing engine. I can't think of *anything* that Microsoft was the one to come up with the idea for... only ideas they "borrowed"...

    Windows from Mac OS (they were DOS before Mac came out with a user friendly interface for an operating system).
    Internet Explorer from Netscape
    Xbox 360 from Playstation
    Zune from iPod
    Bing from Google
    Hotmail was purchased from another company
    Windows OS for mobile phones... been trying unsuccessfully to copy iPhone and Android

    What has Microsoft *really* invented on their own that was good? :)

    That being said... yes... we will see stuff like that, but I suspect it's not going to be from Microsoft (at least not first).
     
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    hashif Well-Known Member

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    Wow! Great video, world in our finger tips .:), i would love to reborn again at 2100 so that i can enjoy Digital life ...
     
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  4. moffey

    moffey Active Member

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    Thanks Shawn :D ! I didn't notice it until you said about microsoft inventing !
     
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