Microsoft's New Attempt To Dominate Robotics

An anonymous reader writes "IEEE Spectrum reports that Microsoft's Robotics Group is announcing new world domination plans — at least for the robotics world. The company is making its Robotics Developer Studio (RDS), which includes Microsoft's CCR and DSS runtime toolkit, available to anyone for free. Why make it a freebie? Because the company wants to expand its RDS base and get a grip on the robotics development space, hoping big things will come out of it."

Hasta La Vista

[binarylarry]

Sounds like a plan to me.

When the robot uprising starts, there'll be a million ways to crash the fuckers.

Re:bad quote

[TapeCutter]

"Does Microsoft make anything that isn't slow, bloated, and fully integrated into skyne--I mean .NET?"

Notepad.

Success breeds success!

[rueger]

Good on MS for building on their twenty years of technical marketing triumphs like the MS mouse, the wavy keyboard, the Zun... ah... did I mention the mouse?

Re:Hasta La Vista

[Anonymous Coward]

"Must kill all humans.. Error.. please reboot me"

Re:Hasta La Vista

[Anonymous Coward]

Hasta La Vista
Best pun I've seen in hours

The joke has come true!

[Anonymous Coward]

"The day Microsoft makes a product that doesn't suck is the day they start making (robotic) vacuum cleaners."

iRobot

[copponex]

DUDE: Robot, grab me a beer.
iROBOT: I'm sorry, Steve says those are bad for you.
DUDE: What the fuck?
iROBOT: Would you like some water with a splash of lemon instead?
DUDE: No, I just want have a beer and play a little... where is my Halo 5?
iROBOT: There was a cutscene that showed a nipple, so it has been discarded. I have replaced it with "Yoga For Everyone." Would you like me to show you some poses? We can...
DUDE: No, please, go ahead and get started with out me. I'm just going to go find this receipt I've been looking for...

I for one...

[LukeWebber]

Welcome our new, blue-screened robot overlords.

Re:Hasta La Vista

[JustOK]

C#-rated

Re:iRobot

[Ethanol-fueled]

DUDE: Robot, grab me a beer.
iROBOT: I'm sorry, Steve says those are too fattening for you.
DUDE: What the fuck would Steve recommend, then?
iROBOT: Apple martini.

Re:bad quote

[castorvx]

To be fair, it takes a lot of memory to store one level of undo.

Re:But it has a basis in the business model.

[CannonballHead]

Clearly you are a troll. Your anecdotal, uncited evidence was obviously inferior to the parent's anecdotal, uncited evidence. ;)

Re:iRobot

[Alwin Henseler]

You're doing it wrong:

DUDE: Robot, grab me a beer.
iROBOT: I'm sorry, Steve says those are bad for you.
DUDE: Robot, sudo grab me a beer.
iROBOT: One beer coming up, master.

Re:iRobot

[RevWaldo]

You're still doing it wrong - this is Windows after all.

DUDE: Robot, grab me a beer.
iROBOT: I'm sorry, Steve says those are bad for you.
DUDE: Robot, runas /user:Administrator grab me a beer.
iROBOT: iRobot has encountered a problem and needs to close. We are sorry for the inconvenience.


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