Matt Hickey got a chance to sit down with the Microsoft Surface and discovered that it’s not just a bigass table.
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Microsoft, bring this down to a consumer level pricing structure and you could have 2 products (Xbox 360) in my home… very impressive!
This should serve as an example to all the Apple fanboys who keep dishing negativity on Microsoft. Clearly this *type* technology didn’t originate at MS, but it’s really amazing how they’ve applied it. Oh btw, another note to the fanboys, prototypes of this had been developed *prior* to the iPhone. So multi-touch isn’t new.
Oh, and on another note, I am probably still going to buy a Mac sometimes this year.
P.S. This wasn’t meant as a rant or a flame - but I will rest my case with any naysayers =)
Wow. I didn’t think that Surface was going to be made out of a zero capacitance surface. I would love a chance to play around with one of these!
And who says Microsoft isn’t innovative?
Wow ! Amazingly Awesome!
http://www.givemebeats.com
MS is MS for a reason.
Knowing that it has Vista running underneath really worries me. The “software layer” is quite cool thou, if only it runs on top of Linux rather than Vi$ta
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Nothing special. Not interested at all.
How much?
I think if they were to pair this up with a huge harddrive and make it the center of the home media hub and drop the price to around the $2000 price they would have a hit.
Imagine bringing up your film collection and then dragging the film you wanted to watch over your media player icon and having the film start playing on your TV.
Is there no way to lower the volume on that embedded video???
You got to admire Bill Gates. The guy is about shaping the way people interact with technology. The Surface is the perfect example. Product-wise, it’s still impractical, too expensive, and Apple could do it better, more stylish (I’m an Apple user myself). But you have to admire the concept. That’s technological trailblazing. Microsoft is more than its products. I think we will remeber Bill Gates for shaping technology relationships, and not for the not-so-perfect products. We will remember Jobs for the perfect products, but I doubt he will go down in history in the same way.
Ethan
http://backpackingonlittlemoney.wordpress.com/
I a roll-out touch-pad on my coffee table, shifting the video to my big ass TV through my XBox. Or Wii. Or Apple TV.
I’m not spending $2K on a coffee table.
Who is that lady sitting behind Matt? She lloks gloomy and dark….
OMG!!! Is one of MSFT PR people!!!!
Like the KGB, she would’ve kill Matt if he didn’t like the oversize iTouch…I mean, the Suuuuuuurfaaaaaace……
I think this is one of the first innovations from MS that I have been excited about in years.
Nice to see them coming up with something half-way original.
@13: Tostada-Man
Go look at the chronology of the surface vs the iTouch and report back.
Looks absolutely amazing, but I think MS is positioning it wrong. People will want this in their homes more than businesses will want to put them in their businesses, in my opinion.
Perhaps they’re positioning it at enterprise for pricing reasons? They know consumers won’t be able to afford it at the price point they know they’ll have to enter at…
Wonder what kind of Cab he’s got in that big old Riedel wineglass?
wawa we wa
@ Justin: it’s a B2B technology now because that’s who can afford it and has a need for it, yes. But I’m sure it’ll move into the consumer space in a few years.
@ Tostada-man: You’re an idiot.
my attention span is that of a goldfish, why does the video start from the begining all the time and have no scrub controls? Can someone post this on youtube.
Wow! That’s so cool. Perhaps it’s just my fear of being advertised to, but I found the water ripples & photo app way more compelling than the wine bar app. The technology is great, but in the hands of marketers, this could be a most invasive tabletop.
To all of the people impressed with Microsoft’s “innovation”. This is just another case of them stealing or buying others ideas. Its amazing what a little bit of Surface is just a rip off of Multi Pointer X (MPX) which has been around for only surface can’t tell the difference between two people the way MPX can. When its released to the major distributions with xorg 7.4 customers will be able to do the same things with multiple types of hardware and for free.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=olWjnfBoY8E