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Microsoft to make 'major' mystery announcement in LA

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They are announcing that you can watch shows on your television, while hooked into your mobile device, which is being controlled by your tablet device, which is hooked into your oven all while sitting in the refrigerator.

“... Well, we’re not doing that. We’re just doing this game. It’s an RPG.”

My favorite quote from E3 this year.

Based on early Windows 8 feedback, Microsoft announce the upcoming release of Windows 9! /s

Don't get our hopes up :(

Microsoft is finally buying Hulu folks! Also, announcing 'special' partnership with Comcast.

Microsoft TV, beating Apple to the punch. With integrated Xbox functionality.

This will never happen. Microsoft is not a hardware manufacturer. Yes, they make the x360 and some accessories. That's it.

Besides they have invested a ton of money in the x360 and continuously push the x360's OS to handle media. Clearly they'd be stupid to release a TV that duplicates some of the x360 functionality. Nothing to gain.

I do wonder what they'll announce though.

Heh. We were both wrong, apparently. It's a tablet, and Microsoft is a hardware manufacturer (well, OEMing stuff, anyway).

You mean like Windows Media Centre, which has existed for about 7 years, or something else?

I mean an integrated TV, like what that Apple is supposed to be readying.

I doubt that's actually what it is, though; maybe some exclusive content deal for Xbox and/or Win 8 media devices. The choice of LA as a place for the event kinda suggests that to me. I'd assume it's entertainment related, in any case.

OK, sorry for the snark.

Thanks for the apology, though it's not really necessary.

Aren't they demo-ing Windows Phone 8 next week?

The Windows Phone event is on Wednesday, 20 June (http://www.theverge.com/2012/6/4/3063346/microsoft-promises-...). This post is for an event on Monday, 18 June.

It's probably a their entertainment-focused Win8 release, perhaps for some Xbox/Kinnect tie-in?

You know, I've played with Win8, and it's got a lot of rough edges. I don't know that any of the form factors presented will excite people, but I hope MS the best.

They are acquiring Nokia?

I can see MS buying Nokia, but not a few days after a combined profit warning + announcement of a massive round of layoffs. The timing would be totally tone-deaf with regard to the layoffs, and from a legal point of view it seems pretty dangerous to have the profit warning so closely to an acquisition announcement. Possibly not illegal, but certainly begging for a lawsuit from anyone who sold shares in those few days.

And of course MS buying Nokia will pretty much ensure that no other manufacturer is going to touch WP8 with a 12 foot pole. Seems like a bad way to kick off that campaign...

They are acquiring Yahoo?

I hope they are delaying Win 8 for at least a year.

8/12 comments on this HN thread so-far are nothing more than "Microsoft sucks lols" dressed up in a pseudo-relevant form. Quality stuff right here. I'll try to keep that in mind next time I encounter knee-jerk reactions here to Microsoft products or reading sentences that start with "MS is too old" and end with "Win8 is too adventurous". (See: People not understanding UEFI Secure Boot, not understanding desktop mode, etc).

Is it just me, or has anyone else been much happier with modern Microsoft than Microsft of the Late 90/00's? Windows 8 phone is actually a great pleasure to use, even if the app ecosystem isn't where it needs to be.

HN certainly doesn't lean pro-MS but I don't get your point. It seems to be "I'll keep in mind these terrible comments when I see terrible comments in the future."

This isn't a small community and there are plenty of relatively unbiased people that are capable of making arguments to be judged on their own merit.

I more or less meant, I'll stop trying to take comments here seriously or assume they're informed opinions. It's an assumption that I generally (used to?) grant HN comments moreso than anywhere else on the Internet. Normally when I see comments hating on an Microsoft product, I assume they have some basis in personal usage reality and not because it's become a meme, even here, to blindly hate on Microsoft and make assumptions about their products that literally stem from 5-10 years ago.

Fair enough but I don't see these "Microsoft sucks lols" comments you speak of.

  I hope they are delaying Win 8 for at least a year.

Is that it?

  Based on early Windows 8 feedback, Microsoft announce
  the upcoming release of Windows 9! /s

Maybe this? Even if you ignore the "/s", I don't take this as "MS sux". He's simply referencing some of the critical reaction that comes with any major change to a product with a bit of humor on a post that isn't exactly conducive for a good discussion.

This post is about a "mystery". If anything, I'd take the tone of the comments to be relative indifference about discussing this "mystery".

Admittedly I am responsible for one of the more ridiculous and pointless comments on this thread (although in my defense it wasn't an attempt at being pseudo-relevant in the slightest, was just me being silly about the use of the word 'mystery', which always tends to bring out scooby-doo references in my head). However, what kind of response can you have to an announcement that any big company is releasing something, but they won't say what. I'll reserve relevance for when there is something to be relevant about, otherwise it is just the microsoft equivalent of the more vacuous side of mac rumours, and in the absence of any information I do find sillyness is preferable to sincere waffle about a marketing exercise.

What's the best way to respond to religious knee-jerk comments?

Downvote.

If they would stop announcing things that suck, we would have more faith that the next thing they announce will not suck.

It is just straightforward extrapolation.

I don't use any Microsoft products myself, but Windows Phone 8 seems great, and Kinect is one of the best toys a hacker could dream of. I for one am very excited to hear about big announcements from them.

They've found out that it wasn't a ghost down in the abandoned mine, but was just old Mr Wilkins who ran the amusement arcade trying to scare off the new owner so that he could buy the land.

It would be the new dance routine of Steve Ballmer.

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