Asus says it continues to work on making the devices thinner, more reliable and more battery-efficient and is expanding the line, known for its casual, intuitive software, to be more business-oriented.
According to "multiple sources," the blog says Microsoft will offer a streamlined media device that provides access to TV and entertainment services, as well as casual gaming software titles.
With [computer] software, casual copying was lessened by a combination of education efforts and evolving, maturing business models, with some exemplary prosecutions of large-scale piracy.
In an effort to reduce the practice of casual sharing of software among family members and friends, Microsoft has built an anticopying mechanism called Product Activation into Windows XP.
It made sense for Apple to bring their casual video editing software over to the iPhone when the 4 launched with hi-def recording.
Ribbon Hero, released this year, is a tool that combines casual gaming with interactive software training to teach users how to find commands in the ribbon for Word, Excel, PowerPoint and OneNote.
(Just to clarify -- people with more money than time, pay; people with more time than money, pirate. As people get better computers, better broadband connectivity and better software, the casual, or even unintentional, bootlegging of content will increase exponentially).
Although the company failed to create a financially successful casual game, by creating software for other companies they managed to acquire enough money to undertake an unusual project of their own choosing.
Since then, it has grown into a publicly traded company with offerings including the Rhapsody digital music service, RealPlayer multimedia software and RealGames casual video games business.
Workplace Chat is one of Facebook's only pieces of desktop software besides its casual gaming platform Facebook Gameroom.
