Friday, December 24, 2010

Question 453: GIving DTDC Competition

Official Statement my microsoft regarding another flop

"At any given time, across any of our business groups, there are new ideas being investigated, tested, and incubated. It's in Microsoft's DNA to continually develop and incubate new technologies to foster productivity and creativity. The "__X__ project is an example of this type of effort and its technologies will be evaluated for use in future Microsoft offerings, but we have no plans to build such a device at this time."

Similarily,
Michael Arrington Of TechCrunch wrote:

"So let’s design it, build a few and then open source the specs so anyone can create them."
"If everything works well, we’d then open source the design and software and let anyone build one that wants to."

Both were trying to design somethign to bring down __Y__

Questions:

1) ID X (microsoft's Project)
2) ID what Michael Arlington wanted to develop
3) ID the company they wanted to take down

(5 points for 2 right answers, 10 for all 3)


Answers:

1) Microsoft Slate

2) Crunchpad (JooJoo is what its now known as, but acceptable)

3) Apple (for its IPad no doubt)

4 comments:

SyntaXerroR said...

1 Microsoft Courier
2 Crunchpad (JooJoo) - linux based tablet computer
3 probably Ipad or hp slate...i'd go with Ipad.

Kapinjal Chowdhury said...

crunch pad, joojoo, fusion garage..

Karthik said...

1. Microsoft's Courier Tablet.

2. JooJoo/ CrunchPad by Michael Arlington, TechCrunch dude.

3. Guessing it is IPad (Apple).

churott said...

X- microsoft courier

Micheal arlington wanted to develop an open source software for a tablet
both trying to bring down apple