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MS Employee Leaks Plans: Windows 9 to be Voice-Controlled Only
With all the excitement and news regarding Windows 8 abound, how about some Windows 9 action? Sure to be removed soon, an employee by the name of Johan has externally detailed some of Microsoft’s plans for it’s ~2015 OS. So, what’s the verdict? The OS will *completely* do away with physical interaction. No more pesky keyboards, mice or dumb monitors you have to get all greasy with your finger tips. It’s all about speech with Windows 9 and Johan even wrote a bit about his experience with an alpha build currently circulating internally — of which, there are also plans for an Xbox 360 emulator (basically, a tweaked version of Virtual PC) which will also be speech-driven! Check out the following quotes from his review which shows that Microsoft has *clearly* been making heaps of progress:
After less than 90 minutes of training I was able to open notepad and highlight a section of text which was very exciting.
I wasn’t the only one who’d leapt at the opportunity to run the Alpha, so there were quite a lot of us shouting commands at our computers which caused quite a ruckus at times. It was quite impossible to keep a normal conversation over the phone with people shouting “New Paragraph!” and “Dear Mom!” left and right. Still, that’s the price you pay for being an early adopter I guess.
It doesn’t stop there. For more information on a projected release date and to read about additional features such as the Boss Key, go read his article referenced below (before it gets taken down). I’ll take a snap-shot of the original article just in case.
Source: http://blogs.msdn.com/johan/
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ah, must be that day of the year again
My thoughts exactly, Colin.
Took me the whole article, but I caught on before posting a stupid comment
That being said, too bad if Microsoft were working on it, and you cost Johan his job.
hmm.. i went to college, and while sitting on the train with one of the professors at our college we used to talk alot about microsoft and windows. one of the things he said, this being year 2000, was that in a few years windows he would use windows with speech as he was quickly going blind. now this is all and well with what ive seen in vista and windows 7 as to voice interations but a speech only OS??? that makes no sense. what about people who have speech impediments or just cant plain speak correctly? i dont see that happening…
oh yeah… now i remember what today is.. lmao
Great article, great April Fools joke. Especially where it says that the release date is April 1st 2009, exactly one year from now.
Talk about beating a dead horse. That article was posted two years ago.
ha ha ha ha….i was all like “how hell am i going to use photoshop, and record music”?
nice one, and of all people with fake rumours of this that and the other yesterday…i was actually believing this as i read it..2015 seemed a bit sketchy to me though..
peas
cityboy
“how hell am i going to use photoshop, and record music”
to adjust a color, hum in the exact (and single) frequency of the color (or its remainder, or…)
to record music, whisper sweet nothings into the pc’s “ear”.
“After less than 90 minutes of training I was able to open notepad and highlight a section of text which was very exciting.”
LOL
Just silly, wtf… thought controlled would be something, but talking to the computer would feel awkward, what about secret stuff like passwords…
Silly.