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Microsoft to make 'major' mystery announcement in LA
- dmfdmf 14y agoI hope they are delaying Win 8 for at least a year.
- jblow 14y agoThey are announcing that you can watch shows on your television, while hooked into your mobile device, which is being controlled by your tablet device, which is hooked into your oven all while sitting in the refrigerator.
- zachwill 14y ago“... Well, we’re not doing that. We’re just doing this game. It’s an RPG.” My favorite quote from E3 this year.
- dbcooper 14y agoAren't they demo-ing Windows Phone 8 next week?
- abrowne 14y agoThe Windows Phone event is on Wednesday, 20 June (http://www.theverge.com/2012/6/4/3063346/microsoft-promises-sneak-peek-future-windows-phone-june-20th http://www.theverge.com/2012/6/4/3063346/microsoft-promises-...). This post is for an event on Monday, 18 June.
- meepmorp 14y agoMicrosoft TV, beating Apple to the punch. With integrated Xbox functionality.
- josephcooney 14y agoYou mean like Windows Media Centre, which has existed for about 7 years, or something else?
- meepmorp 14y agoI mean an integrated TV, like what that Apple is supposed to be readying. I doubt that's actually what it is, though; maybe some exclusive content deal for Xbox and/or Win 8 media devices. The choice of LA as a place for the event kinda suggests that to me. I'd assume it's entertainment related, in any case.
- josephcooney 14y agoOK, sorry for the snark.
- meepmorp 14y agoThanks for the apology, though it's not really necessary.
- spobo 14y agoThis will never happen. Microsoft is not a hardware manufacturer. Yes, they make the x360 and some accessories. That's it. Besides they have invested a ton of money in the x360 and continuously push the x360's OS to handle media. Clearly they'd be stupid to release a TV that duplicates some of the x360 functionality. Nothing to gain. I do wonder what they'll announce though.
- meepmorp 14y agoHeh. We were both wrong, apparently. It's a tablet, and Microsoft is a hardware manufacturer (well, OEMing stuff, anyway).
- gpmcadam 14y agoBased on early Windows 8 feedback, Microsoft announce the upcoming release of Windows 9! /s
- gcp 14y agoDon't get our hopes up :(
- malkia 14y agoIt would be the new dance routine of Steve Ballmer.
- l0c0b0x 14y agoMicrosoft is finally buying Hulu folks! Also, announcing 'special' partnership with Comcast.
- patrickaljord 14y agoThey are acquiring Nokia?
- lmkg 14y agoThey are acquiring Yahoo?
- jsnell 14y agoI can see MS buying Nokia, but not a few days after a combined profit warning + announcement of a massive round of layoffs. The timing would be totally tone-deaf with regard to the layoffs, and from a legal point of view it seems pretty dangerous to have the profit warning so closely to an acquisition announcement. Possibly not illegal, but certainly begging for a lawsuit from anyone who sold shares in those few days. And of course MS buying Nokia will pretty much ensure that no other manufacturer is going to touch WP8 with a 12 foot pole. Seems like a bad way to kick off that campaign...
- drivebyacct2 14y ago8/12 comments on this HN thread so-far are nothing more than "Microsoft sucks lols" dressed up in a pseudo-relevant form. Quality stuff right here. I'll try to keep that in mind next time I encounter knee-jerk reactions here to Microsoft products or reading sentences that start with "MS is too old" and end with "Win8 is too adventurous". (See: People not understanding UEFI Secure Boot, not understanding desktop mode, etc).
- jblow 14y agoIf they would stop announcing things that suck, we would have more faith that the next thing they announce will not suck. It is just straightforward extrapolation.
- rev087 14y agoI don't use any Microsoft products myself, but Windows Phone 8 seems great, and Kinect is one of the best toys a hacker could dream of. I for one am very excited to hear about big announcements from them.
- Arelius 14y agoIs it just me, or has anyone else been much happier with modern Microsoft than Microsft of the Late 90/00's? Windows 8 phone is actually a great pleasure to use, even if the app ecosystem isn't where it needs to be.
- FreshCode 14y agoWhat's the best way to respond to religious knee-jerk comments?
- losvedir 14y agoDownvote.
- detst 14y agoHN certainly doesn't lean pro-MS but I don't get your point. It seems to be "I'll keep in mind these terrible comments when I see terrible comments in the future." This isn't a small community and there are plenty of relatively unbiased people that are capable of making arguments to be judged on their own merit.
- ktizo 14y agoThey've found out that it wasn't a ghost down in the abandoned mine, but was just old Mr Wilkins who ran the amusement arcade trying to scare off the new owner so that he could buy the land.
- iRobot 14y agoMelissa Gates has finally spent all his money and they've filed for insolvancy
- r00fus 14y agoIt's probably a their entertainment-focused Win8 release, perhaps for some Xbox/Kinnect tie-in? You know, I've played with Win8, and it's got a lot of rough edges. I don't know that any of the form factors presented will excite people, but I hope MS the best.