Microsoft Home pushes boundaries of the future
Seattle PI | at | by Mike
The mobile phone is already good for mundane things such as making calls and sending messages. But Microsoft's latest vision of the future elevates the device to the status of magic wand.
A new version of the futuristic Microsoft Home lets people use mobile phones to control room lighting, temperature, music, television and other parts of the house -- all the way down to the lock on the front door.
"It becomes kind of the ultimate universal remote control," said Jonathan Cluts, director of consumer prototyping and strategy for the Redmond company.