Microsoft watch keeps up with the times
C|Net | at | by Mike
Last year, Microsoft spent a lot of money launching its MSN Direct wireless service, which broadcasts to a line of first-generation smart watches from Fossil, Suunto and Swatch.
The watches employed Microsoft's Smart Personal Objects Technology, and while they got a lot of press and offered some intriguing features, they didn't do well in the marketplace. Part of the problem was they were big and clunky-looking (read: ultrageeky). Also, at launch, you had to pay an additional $60 a year for the MSN Direct service, which isn't all that much, but when you already have a cell phone bill and a host of other bills to pay, who needs another expense?