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Using the Consumer Electronics Show at Las Vegas as a platform to showcase his company’s upcoming revolutionary projects, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer introduced the ‘windows will be everywhere’ concept. The basic idea is that almost all devices will be able to run on Windows, from phones to tablets. In the presentation that he delivered at the Show, Ballmer charted out his company’s plans of using Windows to run devices that would cater to home entertainment. The Xbox 360 coupled with its wireless, touch-free controller, Kinect would act as the communicative medium and transfer the features of home entertainment such as games, videos and music to their locations.
Revolutionising the services of the Kinect further, he talked of its improved face recognition abilities that has led to the conception of the avatarKinect. Now the Kinect would be able to recognise an individual by noting his smile and other facial expressions. These expressions would then be transferred on to the user’s Xbox avatar which would impersonate the bodily movements of the actual user in a parodic manner. Using the bodily movements and voices of the Xbox 360 users, Kinect would enable them to command and use the services of Netflix. The Xbox 360 users would also have the pleasure of catching up on any television show, running on any device by subscribing to Hulu Plus, which will be arriving at the doorstep of the Xbox 360 users with the support of Kinect. Since its introduction to the market about 2 months back, Microsoft has sold 8 million Kinect kits.
Windows Phone 7 which happens to be a recent offering by Microsoft is a mobile operating system that is an enhanced version of the earlier Windows Mobile platform. Microsoft announced the new mobile OS last year and the first smartphones using the OS have already started coming out and we will see more this year. Ballmer further promised that Microsoft would come back with a cut-and-paste capabilities for WinPho7 — something that a lot of people are sorely missing.
At the CES2011 event, the he also introduced the modified version of Microsoft Surface, the multitouch-adept table. This version promises to be sleeker because of the replacement of cameras by infrared sensory features. It would be a 4 inches thin wonder. This version of the Microsoft Surface has been incorporated with a “Pixel sense” technology which is not only sensitive to touch, but to sight as well. Therefore, it would provide efficient responses to whatever it “sees” before it. They demonstrated it with the help several different visual objects and also printed material, showcasing of course its corporate and retail friendly features.
Since almost all devices would run on Windows, Microsoft is building various versions of Windows. These are being powered to function for not just big devices, but also for smaller ones like smartphones and some tablets. For this, Window needs to work on the low-power ARM processors. Microsoft made test-runs available to the public where Windows was made to work on systems built with chips provided by ARM manufacturers. Quite successfully, the system worked swiftly enough in spite of the low-power chips. In a bid to reduce the virtual world to a single chip, Microsoft has started out on its support campaign for all ‘system-on-a-chip’ devices. Soon this would enable Windows to permeate every space, big or small. So it is a possibility that soon, the entire Windows spectrum will be able to run on ARM chips. That is of course ARM can actually match Intel’s full-size processors. Currently ARM is leading in SoC’s but Intel rules the rest of the roost.
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