We can already see the aspect of the interface that Microsoft wanted to implement in the failed smartwatch for the Xbox

A few days ago we told you about the _smartwatch_ that Microsoft had worked on and that was intended to be paired with the Xbox. A device that finally did not see the light of day and everything seems to indicate that observing the current market for _smartwatch_ it was a success... that it did not come out.

But back then everything was different. It was a time when manufacturers looked at this type of product with different eyes We were all going to have a _smartwatch_ on our wristband and Microsoft also thought that they could try.In the end, everything came to nothing, well, more than nothing, in a bunch of prototypes kept in a box, which we already mentioned had been purchased by a user and in the subsequent launch of the Microsoft Band.

Nice on the outside but… how does it work?

The fact is that with so much time in the box, these _smartwatch_ offered battery problems, so we couldn't see them in operation to see what work they had done made from Redmond. We had to settle for their physical appearance.

However, the user in question seems to have has found a way to charge the batteries and activate them so that they can already be seen the first images of Microsoft's _smartwatch_ in operation.

The images highlight some functions that we later saw in the Microsoft Band, one of the points that served as a barrier to see the light this smart watch.Thus, it has functions to control our activity as a quantifying bracelet or GPS positioning.

When we see it now, it may seem something crude and rudimentary, but let's think that at the time of its development this type of product was not they are far from what we see on the market right now, especially because of the _software_ that accompanies them, much more refined today.

In Microsoft they chose to bet on the quantifying bracelet instead of this _smartwatch_. We saw two generations leave and that was the thing, so it is not that they were very successful with the chosen path. If you had followed its development and hit the market _do you think a device like this would have had a future?_

Source | Plaffo In Xataka Windows | This could have been the Microsoft smartwatch that finally and rightly stayed in the development drawer