Microsoft starts a robot invasion with coffee mugs and wearable tech

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Published onApril 2, 2014

published onApril 2, 2014

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Microsoft’s annual developer conference Build is about to kickstart in a couple of hours. While the focus is expected to be pointed at Windows Phone, Windows 8.1, and Office, it appears that Microsoft also has an eye on bringing Windows to other devices as well. Microsoft has quietly launched a website, calledWindows On Devices, ahead of its keynote at the Build conference. The website (which redirects you to an Azure website for now) hints that the software and devices maker might just be looking at “bringing Windows to a whole new class of small devices”.

There is an array of devices which are being speculated on for being paired up with the Windows software. The most pronounced ones are robots, coffee mugs, and a speaking bear! The site doesn’t reveal much concrete information at the moment, but a prolific Microsoft watcher, who goes by the name of hoxod, hasspeculatedthat Microsoft might be releasing a Software Development Kit for Windows on Intel Quark and Galileo platforms for the “Internet of Things”. For a refresher, Intel Galileo is the first product in a new family of Arduino-certified development boards based on the Intel x86 architecture. Intel is encouraging designers and the education communities for hands-on engineering teaching.

We have known for a while that Microsoft is working on wearable and various other technologies. Google recently announced Android Wear, its operating system for smartwatches. Microsoft has also said that it will release a software development kit in the spring which will enable integrated cloud services among other things.

Is it possible that Microsoft too is looking at venturing into smartwatches, once again? And if so, will it be announcing that at Build 2014? Stay tuned to WinBeta, as we will have everything from the event covered.

Radu Tyrsina

Radu Tyrsina has been a Windows fan ever since he got his first PC, a Pentium III (a monster at that time).

For most of the kids of his age, the Internet was an amazing way to play and communicate with others, but he was deeply impressed by the flow of information and how easily you can find anything on the web.

Prior to founding Windows Report, this particular curiosity about digital content enabled him to grow a number of sites that helped hundreds of millions reach faster the answer they’re looking for.

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