Microsoft Wave is a website dedicated to new technologies and developments to come out of Microsoft. Microsoft describes the site as a showcase of cool technology and a place to find the freshest technology developments.

Microsoft Wave is owned by Microsoft

Microsoft

Microsoft Corporation is an American public multinational corporation headquartered in Redmond, Washington, USA that develops, manufactures, licenses, and supports a wide range of products and services predominantly related to computing through its various product divisions...

's United Kingdom

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 division and according to Microsoft Blogger Steve Clayton, the aim of the site is not to sell anything, but to simply show the breadth of technology Microsoft creates. Despite this claim, the site does provide links to purchase items of software or hardware.

It features new technology to come from Microsoft including Kinect, Windows Phone 7

Windows Phone 7

Windows Phone is a mobile operating system developed by Microsoft, and is the successor to its Windows Mobile platform, although incompatible with it. Unlike its predecessor, it is primarily aimed at the consumer market rather than the enterprise market...

, Xbox 360

Xbox 360

The Xbox 360 is the second video game console produced by Microsoft and the successor to the Xbox. The Xbox 360 competes with Sony's PlayStation 3 and Nintendo's Wii as part of the seventh generation of video game consoles...

, Photosynth, Zune

Zune

Zune is a digital media brand owned by Microsoft which includes a line of portable media players, a digital media player software for Windows machines, a music subscription service known as a 'Zune Music Pass', music and video streaming for the Xbox 360 via the Zune Software, music, TV and movie...

 and much more. The site also contains blogs from Microsoft staff including Ben Nunney, Rob Margel and Steve Clayton. New Technology

Technology

Technology is the making, usage, and knowledge of tools, machines, techniques, crafts, systems or methods of organization in order to solve a problem or perform a specific function. It can also refer to the collection of such tools, machinery, and procedures. The word technology comes ;...

 categorised into Software, Hardware

Hardware

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, Learn

LEARN

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, Blogs and Videos

Film

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