the Microsoft courier dies? (no)

today Gizmodo realsed something VERY silly.

they claimed the courier died...... which is just silly.

lets think about this for a second....then i well reach out and slap Gizmodo for bothering to speak about this.

knowing what the courier is, means they have dumped a LOT of money into it.

which means that if they let as much talk generate and information be released on it.

which means they have no doubt bin reading some of the word from the people on the divice.

which means they know how bad people want it

SO, first off MS is no fool they know that abandoning the project would be a foolish move.

they have done no such thing.

SO lets take a look at the company right now as of whats going on.

1) they just came out with a new OS (windows 7)

2) they just came out with a new zune (zune HD)

3) are about 2 weeks away from releasing KIN

4) have a big show at E3 to release the Xbox slim and Natal

5) all of the crazy dealing with the new Natal game developers, and windows mobile app developers

6) the fall release of Xbox Natal, Xbox slim, Windows mobile 7 phones

not to mention any other projects the R&D labs might be working on

that they are probably just putting the "courier" off to the side for now

which clearly means it not dead.....not dead.....not dead

but why my ("") cus hear is what is MOST likely going on.

1) renaming the thing, Xbox was not going to be originally called Xbox 360

but the name stuck. but the name was like how Nintendo called the wii "Nintendo revelation"

but Nintendo stated it was just an idea name. MS just stuck with 360. but originally it was going to be called something elce.

hints the release of "Xbox slim" not being called "Xbox slim 360"

and Xbox Natal...not "Xbox 360 natal" or Xbox Natal 360"

they are hinting of the NEXT Xbox being called NOT Xbox 720

so "courier" is probably going through identity issues and is probably changing its name.

2) after the ipad and its stupid ass showed up with no HD, no camera (let alone HD camera)

no microphone, or USB option for a key bored, camera extra....

MS is probably looking at the faults and redeeming things about ipad and applying them to the

"live journal" or "tablet" project

3) they are probably upping things such as

if MAC (ya thats right i said it the compeny name is MAC not apple)

if MAC (short for Macintosh) has no camera

u can be pretty sure the "live journal" well have a HD camera

if mac has no pen, then the "live journal" well have a digetizer pen like HP touch pens

....and so on

4) as time goes by the price for a GB goes down. when it comes out it well probably have more memory then ipad.

5) also they just acquired a lot of the app (short for application) to work on the windows mobile 7

that means that app compeys of 3rd party would have to then be called to work on stuff for the "live jernal" as well. making the app making market people go down.

so they probably want focus on windows mobile 7 (long for wm7) for now at least.

6) clearly with WM7 and KIN they want to include zune in the product this well be a deffenit for the "live journal" as well. and some sort of windows CE.

so they probably (this is more of a hunch) but they are probably going to see how the WM7 dues in peoples hands and see what kind of things are developed for it.

that way they can better apply it to the "live journal"

the same could be said from what it can take from HP slate

in all i well hold my ground as say with all things considered above the "courier" is not dead

just having identity issues and well be back later looking better then ever and with a new name

so sure gizmodo the name "courier" is probably dead....but not the product.

dear xbox (one)

ok SOOOOOO, from what im hearing in the RUMMER MILL is that surffergirl is claiming that xbox well be releasing a SLIM version of the xbox 360 in black along with Natal this fall and from what i would consider a DUH when it comes to M.G.S. standing for metal gear solid.

the thing i have to say is, im getting a 20gb refurbished xbox (with 2 controllers) from gamestop.

and im only buying it with the understanding that Natal well work with the 360. and wile i would only guess that a slim xbox 360 would work the same as a reguler 360 and their for work with Natal. i still wonder if that is the case hear?

next as i couldent be more thrilled to hear news of a new MGS....one must wonder well it do well with NO controller or? if their well be some sort of mixed use?

this point i have to bring up wile im chatting it up, but it well be interesting to see cross platform games coming out on all 3 systems motion controlls.

wii working with the wiimote

ps3 working off of its controller/camera combo

and

xbox working off the Natal camera.

how well could we make a shooter for the wii and ps3 and would Natal be bale to hold up?

and sports or adventure game on the Natal seams like it would be better then on the ps3 or wii

so my prediction hear is that the 3 systems well see verry different games on each system

say their is a new spyro the dragon game

wile it might be easy to controll on a the wii and probably the playstation 3 it well be much different doing away with a controller all together with the Natal camera being your base.

develepers well have to also make acomedations for using the same action OVER and OVER

in the same sence of butten pressing.

or would a spyro the dragon game just be completly different on the Natal all together?

eather way providing that my spending $200 on a referbished xbox pro well not be in vain and i well be able to add the Natal to it. then i well be getting it. though i am skeptical of the price tage being only $50-$80 when the other systems are pricing their hardware for a little more.

but if it is indeed that price you well be sure yours truely well be one of the first in line for it.

going back to ALL motion controllers for a moment i would have to say that this is a good time for all the 3D tv's to come out. i think that sure its gimiky for movies and every once and a wile you might get something good out of it.

but for gaming this well be amazing, and adding motion controlles to it.....were getting to be having a truly grate gaming experience hear.

on top of that ill be looking at the 3DS for some good feedback in that direction.

3d screen

touch

mic

camera

rumble stylus

and excelarometor.......this is all raped in one with the mostlikly return of

internal memory and internet

YAY

Mircosoft is taking its name (part two)

the Zune HD

ok so i have already talked about the zune HD before but lets just try to make a short and sweet blog about it, and to the point of this blog series which is just expressing the OMG about MS this year. on that not i do relize that the zune HD came out last year, but like W7 it well be realy coming to life this year

so lets begin

1) OLED, ok for most people we could care less what the screen is so long as it dues a good job making a picture. that being said other then the siance that makes up the OLED the picture is the best thing you can see on such a small area to put a screen in, and since a OLED is basicly a screen printed on fabric (hear is a cheristmess tree made of a OLED screen) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KqMXk3mntOQ

so what is the scince of the OLED ? first of it pruduces light in the pixel no back light

(like ipod, cells phones, game boy, ds, PSP, gps.....)

this means brighter colors, and that the blacks well be true black cus their well be NO color coming from the "black" area

it also means that since theis is no back light that their is a longer battery life

3 hours longer then the ipod touch to be in perspective. and its a high responsive multi touch screen.

2) the Nvidea tegra chip, this handy chip in caparison with the graphics in the ipod touch are worlds apart in this case ipod is = to n64 and zune HD is = to xbox (original)

3) HD radio, ok you might ask your self WTF do i need radio for when i have a MP3 player in the first place....and i say to you SHUT UP, cus you probably dont like music then. if you really LOVE music you still listen to the radio, and HD means longer area to listen in, no static, and 2-3 channels on HD stations. which most radio stations brodcaset in HD already. so if their is comershels on one channel u can just switch to a different channel on that same station. and of course the obilaty to tag those songs on your shopping cart for latter.

4) HD video out, it plays HD video but clearly is not big enough to enjoy on such a small screen so you can just hook it up to the TV and play that HD video.

5) other such things!!!!, eceleromitor (the device that makes it motion sensitive)

smart DJ (costume play lists based on info thats on the song, album, or artist)

creating play lists in the divice

apps though not a large selection of apps now, all the BIG stuff is coming in the holiday season of 2010, when windows mobile 7, and courier are in the market. both of those devices well share the zune software and share media like apps and games.

how their is some good apps/ games for it already 15 good ones in perspective apple has only made 5 of their own apps the rest are all 3rd party, so realy MS is kicking em out good.

things like calculator, facebook, twitter, bowling, project gothem racing, texes hold em, audio surf... wich all allow you to play music during game/app play.

software based on simple, artistic, and user friendly system. wich click and drag, for sysnking to divice, changing meta data by dropping making a play list, or what ever elce.

subscription based music survice thats $14 a month for unimeted down loading.

not to mention its part of the "MS ecosystem" allowing you to talk to your xbox 360, pc, surface, mobile 7, and courier.

for more info just go str8 to the source, even play with the software for free on your pc if you want to excperement http://zune.net/en-US/

Microsoft is taking its name (part one)

so lets us start with the first of MS prodcuts, it was released last year i know, but their are still a lot of people getting it on their PC and people saving up for it, not to mention it came out late in the year. of cource this is windows 7

so lets brake down why this is such a big deal

well for one its Microsoft's new OS so that alone says WOW. but why its this extra wow?

1) instead of just coming out with a NEW OS they decided to just reinvent Vista. basicly its the same OS in a lot of ways, or in looks any way. but from a software prespective much has bin inproved upon. and for the better.

2) rather then just releace BIG updates to make the OS of Vista better. they just took all the good ideas from Vista and XP rolled it into one, wile taking out all te problembs.

3) it uses less power to run, thats right now your 90 min battery well run about 120 min

i know mine has changed for the better with W7 now on my HP touchsmart laptop.

4) WOW its so much faster......like almost x2 faster.

5) the tool bar window pains. at first it just looks like cool eye candy but it realy is part of the BIG difference. u can take any icon and "pin" it to the tool bar, it well temperarely pin when u open a program. (like it always has) but it only shows the icon now, rather then the icon and txt. wich personely i think is better.

as you can see theis is a icon window pain on the bottom tool bar (i personely put my tool bar on the right side of my screen)

and it well also group all windows of that same program and put it into the same icon window pain. when u click or hover of the pain it well show u small windows of the windows that are open

4) though most of the updates are BIG things that just make the OS easer to use and work fast and more intuitive, one cool thing i like about W7 is the theme controle, u can make our own or down loade new ones, or even just use the ones it comes with, each one his its own set of sounds, color of glass, and selection of backgrounds that well change, and change at the speed you want. i personely love the zune art themes the wallpaper is brilent and the sounds are interesting but have a zen quality to them.

or go hear to learn more

http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows7/Personalizing-your-computer

their are meany other things i could ramble on about, but let me just link you up with some videos and pages that well give you what u need to know, but before let me just say this, compared to the rest of theis blog series, W7 might not seem as INTERESTING. but remember W7 is what has made all the other products and looking at it from the perspective that it makes the computer you have BETTER, or your new computer the product it is, then one should think of that value and realy in brace the upgrade from vista or XP to W7

so we shall start off with what you need to know in the 3 flavors of each W7

home, profeshinal, or ultemit. and trust me if your really going to get the upgrade for just the upgrade get home edition, and feel free to have geek squad do your updating unless you REALY know what your doing cus you can save some time reinstalling all your programs and having to keep going to your windows.old file for all your old files. but if you plan on spending money on the upgrade for all its tricks and treats go ahead and skip out on office and go st8 to ultimet just for the sake of its only $20 more then office why not get all it has to offer. and for that look hear

http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windows-7/compare/default.aspx

for videos and other little bits of info go to this page

http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windows-7/what-is-windows-7.aspx

id also like to add that W7 has multi touch function so you well be seeing that in a lot of new laptops and even desktops that well now have touch screens, HP really has its head in the game for this one as it has both desk top and laptops with touch screen (i know im using the laptop) and they have also made a deck top monitor that has touch for those of you that need the screen but have the computer. http://h10010.www1.hp.com/wwpc/us/en/sm/WF05a/382087-382087-64283-3181050-3181048-4031739.html