Microsoft, after slimming down, now wants to stay in shape with the help of its new fitness device. Dubbed the Microsoft Band, the device has been a rumored Microsoft project for months — but it’s now ‘official’, going on sale in the US starting today.

Sounds good, yet questions linger like fetid air inside an old gym: Are bloggers simply too exhausted from reviewing fitness wearables to get pumped-up about Microsoft Band? Or, are they tired of fitness gadgets period, exercising only when they reach for a bag of munchies while lying on the couch?

In IT Blogwatch, bloggers feel the burn.

Filling in for our humble blogwatcher Richi Jennings, is a humbler Stephen Glasskeys.

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