Is Microsoft getting its groove back?

For the longest time, a lot of industry pundits refer to Microsoft as a dinosaur — unable to grow and innovate, relying on its foothold and near-monopoly of the PC business to thrive. But lately, with the number of announcements coming out of the Redmond giant’s doors, that impression could be changed.

Three new products made the headlines for Microsoft this year:

Windows 7 Beta. A fresh new OS, garnering rave reviews and great first impressions. Not too shabby for a beta product and the final release is said to be on October 22 this year.

Bing is Microsoft’s decision engine, a reincarnation of Live Search. See more of their commercials here.

Project Natal for XBox 360, the latest announcement coming from E3 that wowed everyone. All that hand gestures reminded me of Minority Report.

For the longest time, there was nothing new and exciting from Microsoft. One flop after another led many to believe Microsoft is just one gargantuan dinosaur unable to deliver anything fresh and exciting.

These 3 new products showed a lot of skeptics that Microsoft still has it. And I agree.

Abe Olandres

Abe is the founder and Editor-in-Chief of YugaTech with over 20 years of experience in the technology industry. He is one of the pioneers of blogging in the country and considered by many as the Father of Tech Blogging in the Philippines. He is also a technology consultant, a tech columnist with several national publications, resource speaker and mentor/advisor to several start-up companies.

https://www.yugatech.com

23 Comments

mark says:

15 years ago

NATAL!!
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Hilary Branigan says:

15 years ago

Your blog is awesome! I found it on Yahoo searching for repairing my xbox and couldn’t resist reading it. You have some good tips here. Thanks for posting!
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jcf says:

15 years ago

definitely Natal will lead to other concepts like monitor-less computers. should i say the coming of star wars type of communications? :D
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madzman23 says:

15 years ago

Did I hear, innovation from MS.
Wow, that must be good. Quite enough though but I think Google is still my search engine. Simple but powerful.

Microsoft will regain its name when they release the full Project Natal feature shown on the commercial and the full released of the Window 7 (not Beta).

Or they will stay as “Show-off” as they always do.

:peace:

hehe..
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Louis says:

15 years ago

Have seen the Project Natal infomercial and it is hard to believe that it is really possible to have a “Minority Report” kind of environment in the coming years…or months…I hope Microsoft will be offering all Vista users a free switch to Windows 7…Vista really is a drag…
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Gerard Banasig says:

15 years ago

MS is getting back in their feet they realize that web is the future, and bing is their best web app so far her is an early comparisson of google and bing http://itlivewire.com/devblog/
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JDSalinger says:

15 years ago

Bing overtook yahoo and then here comes Project Natal to sweep gaming consoles by storm. I wonder how google will react bing and how sony or nintendo would rival project natal
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Ani says:

15 years ago

http://news.cnet.com/widespread-google-outages-rattle-users/

Even Google can fail spectacularly once in a while. An alternative search engine is always good thing.
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Jam. says:

15 years ago

Google is still the best for me. Coz only few of my site’s pages appear in bing lol.
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Beautiful Pinays & Asians on Friendster says:

15 years ago

Google pa rin ang search engine ko. wala namang bago sa Bing.
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leon guinto says:

15 years ago

wats so good about bing?
why fix anything if it aint broke?
microsoft puppies.
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Adrian says:

15 years ago

@Selboy

Astig naka ME ka. ok din yung OS na yun compare sa windows 98.
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Jose Farrugia says:

15 years ago

You can check out more Bing commercials here – http://www.mangochico.com/bings-advertising-blitz/
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Selboy says:

15 years ago

Windows 7 will be released soon but one of my computers is still using the Windows ME :-)
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Go says:

15 years ago

same with me jhay. i was about to get myself a macbook when microsoft announced the october 22nd release of Win7. 4 months isn’t long for an excellent product. beta is doing good already
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Jhay says:

15 years ago

Windows 7 made me stick with Microsoft when I nearly bought a MacBook last month. :D
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Jam. says:

15 years ago

The thing that they should make is ZunePhone :D
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GoBusiness101 says:

15 years ago

you, having a new OS is sometimes irritating. But it means progress as well. As to microsoft, that’s the disadvantage of becoming so big, you are very much expose to small players
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Reel Advice says:

15 years ago

I’m pretty sure Windows 7 would be awesome. As for Project Natal and Bing, I am not so sure if they can deliver! Microsoft has a bad reputation for blowing out on first tries!
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Carlo Dimaandal says:

15 years ago

Bing looks promising but I think its too early to tell. Especially with search god Google as its competition. Bing looks promising though. But what Im really excited is the Natal.
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Adrian says:

15 years ago

let’s see kung ok nga yung windows 7.
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Jam. says:

15 years ago

I want the Project Natal of Microsoft.
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PC Domination says:

15 years ago

im waiting for the windows 7 to be release soon
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