Microsoft announced today that they are going to at least double shipments of Xbox 360’s. They have ramped up another manufacturing partners, Celestica. They have made comments that they are going to take advantage of the mistakes currently being made by Sony as the PS3 encounters delay after delay.

Sony is a massive corporation, even by Microsoft standards, however Bill Gates cut his teeth going face to face with big companies such as IBM. If Sony continues to fumble, they may start to see their margin’s chip away despite the sizable advantages that they have with a plethora of gaming titles. They can only hide behind their games for so long, because Microsoft is playing an even greater video game, called Attack the Void. Bill Gates only needs to fill up the void in the market with Xbox stacked upon Xbox. Its not to hard to envision him momentarily taking a break from the other 50 large projects his company is “focused” on and take a break to play the Microsoft version of Tetris with little Xbox’s dropping from the sky.

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Bill Gate made some comments towards the end of his discussion during a conference in Las Vegas for Mix ‘06, a convention for web developers. Bill responded to a few related questions regarding whether or not Microsoft would open up its API’s to web developers such that independents outside of Microsoft could more easily create web based programs to complement the Microsoft arsenal.

Bill, who was reported to be off his public speaking game, circled the wagons enough to comment that Microsoft will not open up its API’s. However, they will continue to foster an environment where software developers of all types can continue to exist and grow in their specialized areas. Reading between the lines, it was reported that Microsoft will continue to grow horizontally. So developers can stay in their specialized niche’s but cannot move into anything that could have a wider potential.

MindManager Pro6 is a product that is quickly coming into its own. It has the potential to be brought into the Microsoft fold some day, possibly sooner than later. It functions very well with PowerPoint, Project and Outlook. Plus it has decent functionality with Visio, Word, & html. Its still building out its Excel capabilities, and hasn’t tapped the relational database potential yet. All said an told its fitting neetly into the mold of a software package that will work across most of Microsoft Office tools.

It seems inevitable that the paths of Microsoft and Mindjet will cross at some point. Due to the strong user following of Mindjet and the lengths that Mindjet has taken to work in partnership with Microsoft, it currently appears doubtful that the relationship will be antagonistic. However, Microsoft cannot be held off forever, and the longer the delay the greater the chance that an upstart mindmapping software program may sweep in and catch Microsoft’s fancy.

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In a move that puts the “o” in obvious, Microsoft is working on a new project to bring a mobile gaming device to the market. The same team that brought Xbox to life is working to come up with a mobile version.

Let’s recap . . .

Microsoft is working to bring the following new items
Origami - UMPC
Electronic Wallett
Mobile Gaming Device and Games
Xbox 360 - done
Games - Done
Vista - coming soon
SQL Server 2005 - Implementing and chasing after IBM
Smart Phone itself - working or done depending on how you look at the industry

Things that have been accomplished
Smart Phone OS - done
PDA - done
Media PC’s - Done

So what’s missing?
Trains, Planes and Automobiles
(no joke think Vista running on the dash with Mapblast powering a GPS device)
(please return your seets and trays to an upright position and replace the courtesy Origami device in the head rest in front of you)
VOIP Phone systems
Microsoft for Tanks, and Battle Stations, Smart bombs (All major corporations eventually move into Governmental business and defense)
Space - Nasa - Rockets, Satellites, Space Stations (Server 2015 for Space Stations)

Microsoft working on mobile game device: report - Yahoo! News

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