Updated: July 13, 2020 (December 4, 2000)

Microsoft Home

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A prototype home in an 8,000-square-foot loft in Manhattan shows both consumers and partners how new and emerging technology from Microsoft can be integrated into a home. For consumers, the Microsoft Home demonstrates the benefits of a totally computerized and connected home. For partners, it offers insight into devices and services they could supply in the future.

The home is shaping up as the next big battlefield for the growth of both PC and non-PC computing devices. Several similar, competing initiatives, including the “Connected Home” (AOL and Gateway) and the “Internet Home Alliance” (3Com, Cisco, and Sun Microsystems), are demonstrating similar visions of how people can integrate and connect technology products in the home. (Microsoft and the other companies call this vision the “Internet lifestyle.”)

The Microsoft Home

Complete with a kitchen, living room, dining room, home office, patio, and master, kids, and teen bedrooms, the Microsoft Home introduces more than 25 examples of the latest software-based technologies and services, in the three following categories:

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