Comments on: Microsoft enters robotics race

Company offers toolkit to help developers design intelligent applications for commercial and home-built robots.
Microsoft tool envisions evolution of robots

[domeara]

Microsoft powered robots.

Can you imagine it. A robot that anytime you ask it do multitask or prioritise multiple tasks that it just blows up. My God. Give me strenght.

[coryschulz]

I've yet to understand

I've yet to understand why so many people are so negative about Windows XP. I use it in a daily basis and use a variety of different applications on it and I virtually never have any problems with it. Infact the more I use it the more I'm impressed with it.

Or maybe it's just that people hate MS for some reason I don't understand.

[domeara]

Microsoft powered robots.

Can you imagine it. A robot that anytime you ask it do multitask or prioritise multiple tasks that it just blows up. My God. Give me strenght.

[coryschulz]

I've yet to understand

I've yet to understand why so many people are so negative about Windows XP. I use it in a daily basis and use a variety of different applications on it and I virtually never have any problems with it. Infact the more I use it the more I'm impressed with it.

Or maybe it's just that people hate MS for some reason I don't understand.

[shineon4me]

BSOD

Hope MS has enough sense to include a small monitor to show the BSOD and, of course, CTL-ALT-DEL keys on their robots.

[shineon4me]

BSOD

Hope MS has enough sense to include a small monitor to show the BSOD and, of course, CTL-ALT-DEL keys on their robots.

[jeffhesser]

perfect example

What M$ does best. they make a standard OS, now software makers can create software that a majority of the world can use. they make a standard browser, the world can make web pages that the majority can view without trouble. They make directX and game companies can create with greater ease. lets face it, creative people are not the most techinical all of the time. if M$ can make a simpler way to interface with robotics we could see some amazing innovation down the road. which M$ can then turn around and use a "critical update" to complete it's plans to rule the world. Vicki... i mean M$ knows best.

[jeffhesser]

perfect example

What M$ does best. they make a standard OS, now software makers can create software that a majority of the world can use. they make a standard browser, the world can make web pages that the majority can view without trouble. They make directX and game companies can create with greater ease. lets face it, creative people are not the most techinical all of the time. if M$ can make a simpler way to interface with robotics we could see some amazing innovation down the road. which M$ can then turn around and use a "critical update" to complete it's plans to rule the world. Vicki... i mean M$ knows best.

[jeffhesser]

perfect example

What M$ does best. they make a standard OS, now software makers can create software that a majority of the world can use. they make a standard browser, the world can make web pages that the majority can view without trouble. They make directX and game companies can create with greater ease. lets face it, creative people are not the most technical all of the time. if M$ can make a simpler way to interface with robotics we could see some amazing innovation down the road. which M$ can then turn around and use a "critical update" to complete it's plans to rule the world. Vicki... I mean M$ knows best.

[jeffhesser]

perfect example

What M$ does best. they make a standard OS, now software makers can create software that a majority of the world can use. they make a standard browser, the world can make web pages that the majority can view without trouble. They make directX and game companies can create with greater ease. lets face it, creative people are not the most technical all of the time. if M$ can make a simpler way to interface with robotics we could see some amazing innovation down the road. which M$ can then turn around and use a "critical update" to complete it's plans to rule the world. Vicki... I mean M$ knows best.

[Razzl]

Here's your next fortune

How many CNET readers reached the end of the '90's wondering wistfully how they never saw the personal computer and internet coming, but would have invested effectively if they had? Robotics is looking eerily like personal computing in the late '70's; the public is unaware of it, people in the field are scoffing at it in its nascent state, investors are ignoring it, yet its potential is so vast and the pieces of the puzzle are ripe for being put together into the next technical revolution. So the question is, as it was in the late '70's, how do you recognize the companies with something promising to invest in? Microsoft may have just made its stock a "buy" for this coming explosion of a new technology...

[Razzl]

Here's your next fortune

How many CNET readers reached the end of the '90's wondering wistfully how they never saw the personal computer and internet coming, but would have invested effectively if they had? Robotics is looking eerily like personal computing in the late '70's; the public is unaware of it, people in the field are scoffing at it in its nascent state, investors are ignoring it, yet its potential is so vast and the pieces of the puzzle are ripe for being put together into the next technical revolution. So the question is, as it was in the late '70's, how do you recognize the companies with something promising to invest in? Microsoft may have just made its stock a "buy" for this coming explosion of a new technology...

[Llib Setag]

Perfect Timing...

For the next comming of Bill.

NEW & IMPROVED!
The BillBot 2.0!

Now that BillBot 1.0 is getting ready to "retire", Microsoft has just announced it's increased efforts into robotics powered by Windows Live via MSatelite to your MSHome Of The Future from Redmond One.

"Danger Will Robinson, Danger!"

[Andrew J Glina]

Well, at least you used a new Movie/TV show

But you forgot to mention that Apple did it first.

[lkrupp]

Try, try again...

I knew there was something not quite right about Ballmer. I guess
he's a first generation model MSBot.

[Llib Setag]

Perfect Timing...

For the next comming of Bill.

NEW & IMPROVED!
The BillBot 2.0!

Now that BillBot 1.0 is getting ready to "retire", Microsoft has just announced it's increased efforts into robotics powered by Windows Live via MSatelite to your MSHome Of The Future from Redmond One.

"Danger Will Robinson, Danger!"

[Andrew J Glina]

Well, at least you used a new Movie/TV show

But you forgot to mention that Apple did it first.

[lkrupp]

Try, try again...

I knew there was something not quite right about Ballmer. I guess
he's a first generation model MSBot.