____/ nessuno@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx on Wednesday 18 June 2008 21:39 : \____
> On Jun 18, 11:32 am, Roy Schestowitz <newsgro...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> wrote:
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>> Rumor: Microsoft Copying Mii, Xbox E3 Plans Leaked
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>> | Goodness! That's a lot. It's so much, and so intricately documented with
>> | cover artwork and videos, that it really does seem as if a major leak has
>> | just occurred. It'll be interesting to see how the publishers respond.
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>> http://blog.wired.com/games/2008/06/rumor-microsoft.html
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> From the article:
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> "Is Microsoft going to copy Nintendo's Mii idea?"
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> Who? Microsoft? Copy someone else's idea? The company that
> trademarked "innovation"???
There's prior art even to Nintendo's work, but it's nice to see XBox360 falling
to last position not only, well... everywhere in the world but also in the US.
Now it's just copying other people's designs. Sounds familiar? It ought to.
http://antitrust.slated.org/www.iowaconsumercase.org/011607/7000/PX07278.pdf
Here is just a portion of the text (quite a few E-mails are contained therein),
which was sent to the most senior Windows managers. As Jim Allchin sighs, you
must realise why he said he would choose a Mac had he not worked at Microsoft.
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From; Vic Gundotra
Sent; Wednesday, 3une 30, 2004 8:29 AM
To: Jim Allchin; Brian Valentine; Will Poo;e; Joe Peterson
Cc; Sanjay Pathasarathy; Chrles Fitzgerald
Subject: RE: tiger
Steve is trying hard to retain the developers he has left.
He showed %potlight" functionality embedded in 4 different apps, then
highlighted that developers can build (and should build) the same
functionality in their apps,
I have SDK - will send to Quentin
They even showed a bit of extensibility in their design.
I don’t have details, but at first blush, I think they will be there 80% on
developer platform too.
*̄ Their Avalon competitor (core video, core image) was hot - lots of
transparency, ripple effects, etc
̄* I have the coot widgets (dashboard) running on my Mac right now with all the
effects he showed on stage. I’ve had no crashes in 5 hours,
*̄ Their video conferencing was amazing (you have to see a demo),
° They have no indigo/web services story
° They are betting on RSS in a high profile way - so they will get credit for
this too
° They have "agent" like software - I have it working on my Mac as of last
night. It’s very cool scripting soltware for the entire system. You should see
a demo of this - Jobs does it in his keynote
*̄ I’ve enclosed a screen shot from Lenn of using Spotlight against locally
cached exchange data. (You can point the built in mail cient against an
exchange server. The mail is copied down locally, and then "spotlight" works
against it
wickedly fast)
Video of Job’s talk is here: http://stream.apple.akadns.net/
The bits we deliver in Sept 05 PDC must be compelling, even in beta form. UI
must be hot. We will be directly compared against tiger.
-vicg
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~~ Best of wishes
"We should dedicate a cross-group team to come up with ways to leverage Windows
technically more."
--Jim Allchin, Microsoft
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