Comments on: Project Natal – the first true innovation from Microsoft http://wrede.interfacedesign.org/archives/1685.html Notes from Prof. Oliver Wrede on Interface, Interaction and Information Design & more Sun, 23 Oct 2011 15:48:32 +0000 hourly 1 By: billigzobel http://wrede.interfacedesign.org/archives/1685.html/comment-page-1#comment-4791 billigzobel Mon, 08 Jun 2009 19:17:38 +0000 http://wrede.interfacedesign.org/?p=1685#comment-4791 Project Natal is a promising technique. I were thrilled too when I first read about it in <a href="http://www.dreisechzig.net/wp/archives/1694" rel="nofollow">blogpost</a> about the first public presentation at the <a href="http://www.e3expo.com/" rel="nofollow">E3 Expo</a>. But to claim that this project is M$´s first true innovation is somewhat too much bias. You forgot that they have contributed a lot to our recently widly-used technologies on the web. Best example is AJAX. Of course they didn't invented AJAX directly, but they introduced the technology where <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ajax_(programming)#History" rel="nofollow">AJAX</a> is based on: the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XMLHttpRequest" rel="nofollow">XMLHttp-Request</a> object. But this 'invention' of M$ wasn't spread very liudly I admit. Because alternative browsers like Mozilla, Firefox or Opera implemented the XMLHttp-Request technique very fast. Project Natal is a promising technique. I were thrilled too when I first read about it in blogpost about the first public presentation at the E3 Expo.

But to claim that this project is M$´s first true innovation is somewhat too much bias. You forgot that they have contributed a lot to our recently widly-used technologies on the web. Best example is AJAX. Of course they didn’t invented AJAX directly, but they introduced the technology where AJAX is based on: the XMLHttp-Request object.

But this ‘invention’ of M$ wasn’t spread very liudly I admit. Because alternative browsers like Mozilla, Firefox or Opera implemented the XMLHttp-Request technique very fast.

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