Motion control sounds like a good idea.... but coming from Microsoft,,,,,, I just do not think so.. Just think of a peanut butter smeared screen running windows touch.....

I would leave it up to Apple to do it right. They just seem so much better at figuring out where to use which technology.

Just a thought.
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So when I give the finger to the monitor after Windows has screwed up something...it will then understand it?

Well, I have my doubts about Natal, but either way it's going to hugely benefit us as end users, because you know that Sony, Apple, Nintendo, and others are going to try and out-do Natal's capabilities. And within ten years, we should have something that does everything that Microsoft is promising now.

What surprises me about Natal is that Microsoft usually sits back and lets everyone else do all the research and development, and they then copy the ideas and bundle it with their products, grabbing the largest market share by default.

So has MS changed tactics after all this time? It will be very interesting to find out over the next few years.

... coming from MS, I bet it'll be something like this:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WmudPExkKJ4

I haven't been on this site in a while. I forgot what turds you guys were.

When Microsoft isn't innovative you complain. When Microsoft is innovative, you complain that they shouldn't be and should leave that to Apple. Amazing.

oh luck, there's nothing (as in, you know ZIP, ZERO, NADA) innovative about this no matter how much you want it to be.
this is not only NOT new, it exists.

http://www.gesturetek.com/screenxtreme/introduction.php

http://www.exergamefitness.com/motionsurfacexg.htm

turds eh? my my. did you not have enough sleep last night?

didn't ms buy some israeli company that specializes in motion sensor technology?
there's innovation at work just for you.

now, i have told you and told you about doing your homework but still you come on here making a bit of a fool of yourself. i just don't know what else to do.

http://www.exergamefitness.com/motion(underscore)surface(underscore)xg.htm

Gates doesn't work for MS anymore, so, really, his opinion is of minimal concern to what the company 'might' do.

As far as I know, he's still there part-time. And he's still the largest individual shareholder .... so I'm sure it counts.

However, I do like the way that Bill sometimes make MS look really incompetent and foolish, so in that way, I like him.

Also, notice "little over a year" in MS terms means 1-year , which basically means that we know it's gonna take longer than one year ... but we don't really know how long :-) it could 1 5 years away.

You would have to be very out of touch with technology to think Microsoft has done anything innovative here. Calling the posters here turds doesn't make Microsoft innovative.