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2011 - Windows Phone, Avatar Kinect, Windows 8
Microsoft provided updates on Kinect for Xbox 360 and Windows Phone, and also previewed several new Windows PC devices coming to market. Steve Ballmer introduced Avatar Kinect and appeared on screen as his Xbox avatar. Avatar Kinect uses Kinect's facial recognition technology to allow a person not only control their avatar's movements but also to project their expressions onto their avatar.
In preparation for Windows 8 - Windows was demonstrated running on an ARM processor. Ballmer also announced that Microsoft will release a series of Windows Phone 7 updates over the next few months, including adding the copy-and-paste feature and improving the phone's performance when loading or switching between applications.
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13/01/2012 02:43
MSN Why don't you start charging the likes of MAGE AINGLE an advertising fee for use of the blog service.
14/01/2012 17:00
and who runs your banks, schools,hospital. your network system.. mail server. check this software out. ms word, power point, publisher, excel, access, sql serve. visual basic, visual c ++ and so on.
your cosmetic I.T companies google and apple can not run the business world. They need microsoft to run it for them. microsoft is not the biggest software maker for nothing.
13/01/2012 15:36
All things must pass, and twenty years is about long enough. Pity some TV and Radio executive producers don't take a hint and retire programmes like The Archers, Emerdale, Coronation Street and Eastenders.
There was once a showbiz maxim that as a performer, one should always retire at the top, leaving your audience wanting more. The Soaps are a classic example of the opposite in action. Boring trash. Microsoft themselves are about to discover this as well. That the world has moved on, and their products are in danger of becoming very stale. Windows 7 is just about acceptable - but only just.
13/01/2012 10:34
Vista..............doesn't quite rhyme with disaster, but that's what it was, as anyone who's used it will tell you. Utter pony & trap.
13/01/2012 07:46
well what can you say ....... the begining of the end for mocrost computers has started........
give it another ten years and you'll say MICRO WHO?......
apple, android and chrome systems will dominate the market .. rather than expencive lisenced softwares
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