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The world needs a Microsoft-driven "standard" almost as much as we need any manufacturer pushing the market in a given direction for its own benefit - and not the end-user's.

Vendors should listen more and dictate less.

Carmi
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Um, right. I assume that since you don't see a need for auxiliary displays, no one else should either then? How can you justify your point that such a feature is not to the end user's benefit? Just your way to vent some pent-up frustration at those dang vendors?

"The same fundamentally weak architecture" -- is that meant to be your critical evalution of a slimmed-down .NET runtime embedded in silicon? The "same" as, what exactly?]]>Dec 19th 2005 1:38AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2005/02/12/microsoft-proposes-standard-for-auxiliary-displays/http://www.engadget.com/2005/02/12/microsoft-proposes-standard-for-auxiliary-displays/
I think this is a great idea - I believe Microsoft are spot on with this. What we will see is the Media PC taking over and dominating 'consumer electronics' replacing the hi-fi-like unit with off-the-shelf desktop-like computer components ... pitching Dell into direct competition with the likes of Sony and Samsung ... it will be a 'value-war' and Dell has a great chance of winning. Now if Intel can make a silent running CPU cooling system ...]]>Dec 19th 2005 1:38AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2005/02/12/microsoft-proposes-standard-for-auxiliary-displays/http://www.engadget.com/2005/02/12/microsoft-proposes-standard-for-auxiliary-displays/
Yes, and external displays for laptops have been around for a while, too, displaying such things as battery life.

This is different - it is based on SPOT, which transmits data to SPOT devices over FM radio. So without having to open up your laptop, you can get things like calender alarms, short messages, weather, news, sports, etc.

Article crosslink here:

http://forum.spotstop.com/showthread.php?t=2114

The first poster is correct: SPOT watches are not "failures" they were simply the first devices that Microsoft could find SPOT hardware partners for. As such, although the SPOT watches haven't set the world on fire yet, they haven't actually been "failures" either. They have demonstrated something of what the SPOT concept can achieve, and that's all Microsoft wanted in its first generation of SPOT devices. Things like these external displays are simply another step in their SPOT game plan.]]>Dec 19th 2005 1:38AM