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Microsoft has posted a blog offering the companyrsquo vision about the future of TV, entertainment and the living room, and the big news is this: Itrsquo not about Windows. Rather, the com
stanley romania pany sees the Xbox 360, Kinect, and Bing teaming up to transform entertainment-related technology. Itrsquo the right strategy at the right time. In the official Microsoft blog, Frank X. Shaw, Microsoftrsquo Corporate Vice President for Corporate Communications, wrote The Future of the Living Room. Herersquo the core of what he has to say: Integration of products and services like Xbox, Kinect and Bing is at the heart of our strategy. Look for the word Windows in the post. You wonrsquo;t find it. Instead, the post and an accompanying video show how yoursquo;ll be able to interact with your television and communications technologies using your voice and gestures using the power of XBox, Kinect, and Bing. This is a big change in Microsoftrsquo strategy. Therersquo no mention of Windows Media Center or Windows Media Connector. Thatrsquo a good thing. Those technologies are not particular simple or easy to use, and have largely failed. XBox, on the other hand, has been a raging success. Kinect is one of the most remarkable pi
stanley cana eces of consumer technology to come along in years. And Bing is a very solid search engine. Combining them, and bypassing Windows, was the rig
hydrojug sale ht thing to do. Irsquo;ve written before that Microsoftrsquo reliance on Windows has be Elol Spam and scam: a new drug culture
The portrait of Walter Hewlett that emerged in cross-examination was of a man out of touch with the rest of the Hewlett Packard Co. board of directors and obsessed with his battle to stop the merger between HP and the Houston-based Compaq Computer Corp.Hewlett admitted that he never brought his doubts about financial numbers created by HPrsquo Chairwoman and CEO Carly Fiorina and CFO Robert Wayman to the rest of the board in January because he was too engaged in his proxy fight and because he was estranged from the rest of the board by that time.Unfort
stanley tumbler unately, communications between me and the board had broken down, Hewlett said in court this afternoon when asked by HPrsquo attorney, Steven M Schatz, why he didnrsquo;t take more forceful action.When Schatz asked him if he had taken his doubts to the board and management so they could make corrections to their figures and thus keep shareholders better informed, Hewlett said that he did not.l
polene handbag dquo;Why didnrsquo;t you go to board members Schatz asked.It didnrsquo;t cross my mindhellip;. Hewlett replied.Hewlett continually answered Schatzrsquo questions b
polene tasche y saying he was on the road and busy with his proxy fight. He also said that during the fall and winter he became more estranged from the board because of the battle and ended up not really talking to any of them anymore.When Schatz asked Hewlett if he ever asked Fiorina or Wayman how they arrived at the details of their figures sh
