Microsoft to make ’major’ announcement on Monday

Thursday, June 14, 2012

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Microsoft is being secretive about a “major” announcement it plans to make in Los Angeles on Monday.

The company invited media to an afternoon event, but it says it won’t divulge the location until that morning. In an email, the company says, “This will be a major Microsoft announcement — you will not want to miss it.”

Microsoft declined further comment Thursday.

The venue suggests it has to do with the entertainment industry.

In recent months Microsoft Corp. has made more TV programming available on its Xbox 360 video game console. Netflix Inc. is among the offerings on the Xbox, and Netflix CEO Reed Hastings is on Microsoft’s board.

Microsoft is also preparing to release a new operating system, Windows 8, that works across laptop computers, tablets and even televisions.

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tbs63 1 year ago

They're going to fix Windows Vista?

online_editor 1 year ago

Ha. I thought Windows 7 already did that. (Actually, Vista updated to Service Pack 2 has given me no problems, but I've heard the nightmare stories.) Everyone expects this to be an announcement about the release of Windows 8. If they continue their streak of every other OS being good, they'll probably break 7's stability with 8.

january 1 year ago

A phone/tablet ui on a desktop... no thanks. The metro UI might work well on windows phone, xbox and other small scale applications, but when applied to the windows 8 os it will become bulky and unintuitive. What use to take 2 clicks on windows 7 will now take 5, if you know where to look, on windows 8.

online_editor 1 year ago

Conventional wisdom holds that Windows 7 will become the new XP, in that, like XP, it will be retained for years to come by those who don't want or need to upgrade. My understanding is that Windows 8 will also offer a more traditional desktop environment as well as the Metro interface. But of course, the devil's in the details of how it's executed and operates. It's probably just a matter of time before the Metro part of it becomes used more commonly than the conventional form factor. (Remember dropping to DOS to do things in the early days of Windows GUI?)

tonto_goldberg 1 year ago

The goal is clear - to make you believe you need to buy new, more expensive hardware. The need to move the price point back up.

In response to january's comment, don't look down your nose at the phone/tablet UI unless you can find something not to like about the iPad UI. Every step MS takes in that direction is a good one.

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