Microsoft Sees the Future, and It's Extremely Floaty

Data hovers all around, at home and at work

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This Microsoft video, about future technology making folks more productive in home, work and travel settings, is an awesome testimony to the marketing genius of Apple's Steve Jobs. The clip's narcotized vision of a busy-bee society with pervasive touchscreens and 3-D holographic data feeds flying through the air is so predictably de rigueur (see also: Microsoft's "Home of the Future" video), it borders on self-parody, right down to the poppy-ambient music that sounds like Moby crawled inside my laptop speakers and died.

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