Microsoft Decorates Your Living Room

Want to see interior design by Microsoft? Just stroll over to the Microsoft Home in the Redmond Company's Executive Briefing Center on the Redmond campus. The company has revealed via a press release that the Microsoft Home is designed to illustrate the integration of software-driven innovations into the quotidian existence of consumers within the span of 10 years.

"Technology is woven throughout the fabric of people's daily lives, not only at work and school but increasingly in every room of their home," said director of the Consumer Prototyping and Strategy Team at Microsoft. "With the Microsoft Home, we strive to continuously re-imagine and extend the limits of what technology can do to make their daily activities more enjoyable, efficient and productive."

Microsoft showcases forthcoming technologies divided into three themes: place, participation and discovery. "A series of demonstrations showcase how software, services and devices can combine to deliver timely, relevant information to people based on their location, whether inside the home or nearby. Reflecting consumers' widespread desire to more directly shape their sources of information and entertainment - through blogs, social networking Web sites, wikis and the like - the Microsoft Home features several emerging technologies designed to extend people's self-expression. Technology systems throughout the Microsoft Home demonstrate innovative ways of prioritizing the huge volumes of information, media and content choices to which consumers will have access in the future," stated Microsoft.