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Microsoft's vision of the 'smart home' from 1999 was stunningly accurate

Shawn Knight
By Shawn Knight · 5 replies
Jun 5, 2014
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  1. Back in 1999, Microsoft released a promotional video detailing its vision of a futuristic "smart home." Clips from the past like these are usually good for some laughs as the predictions presented typically prove to be way off the mark...

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    Jun 5, 2014
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  2. Skidmarksdeluxe

    Skidmarksdeluxe TS Evangelist Posts: 7,903   +2,839

    And that was 15 years ago. My house hasn't changed much in that time and I don't think it'll be changing all that much in the next 15 other than the odd lick of paint here and there. I'm quite happy with the way things are.
     
    Jun 5, 2014
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  3. Teko03

    Teko03 TS Evangelist Posts: 371   +141

    Amazing how Microsoft had all of the ideas and didn't push any of this to consumers. Microsoft Research is the most innovative waste of money ever.
     
    Jun 5, 2014
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  4. cliffordcooley

    cliffordcooley TS Guardian Fighter Posts: 9,137   +3,244

    Did you guys see how big that girls iPhone was? lol
     
    Jun 5, 2014
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  5. Mr WW

    Mr WW TS Member Posts: 23

    The problem was that they couldn't get the basic TCP/IP protocol good working on Win98.
    So simple communication between devices always dropped. :)
     
    Jun 5, 2014
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  6. gamoniac

    gamoniac TS Guru Posts: 302   +71

    I feeeeeeeeeel the positive energy from TechSpot readers! Woooooooeeeeee~~~ What to do with it?
     
    Jun 6, 2014
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