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Re: Microsoft Surface announced - not an iPhone competitor

1 evista — Sun, 27 Jul 2008 11:41:15 -0000

Re: Microsoft Surface announced - not an iPhone competitor

Kevin — Fri, 01 Jun 2007 08:49:25 -0000

This technology will be perfect for children (and seniors).

Since I work with touchscreens, my own daughter learned to use a touchscreen interface from the age of two. Long before she could handle a mouse, she knew hundreds of submenus for learning websites, and even (to my surprise) figured out how to drag objects using her finger.

Re: Microsoft Surface announced - not an iPhone competitor

Elia — Wed, 30 May 2007 15:14:44 -0000

Can you imagine this technology combined with paper displays? http://texyt.com/sony+oled+...

Re: Microsoft Surface announced - not an iPhone competitor

Kin Lane — Wed, 30 May 2007 12:08:23 -0000

I will still carry it around in my pocket.

Re: Microsoft Surface announced - not an iPhone competitor

bob — Wed, 30 May 2007 09:17:49 -0000

It does look very cool, curious to know how tough the screen will be when people start eating off of it. I'm also sorta disappointed in msft for not using silverlight for intro page...

Re: Microsoft Surface announced - not an iPhone competitor

Ben Werdmuller — Wed, 30 May 2007 04:58:41 -0000

That looks like genius, and depending on the price point, there are tons of real-world applications. In particular, you can see it being widely used in situations where computing with a more natural interface is required, and would allow Microsoft to bring computing to niches that have managed to stay analogue to this point. Clever.

Re: Microsoft Surface announced - not an iPhone competitor

Daniel — Wed, 30 May 2007 04:03:20 -0000

It will be interesting to see if any patent disputes arise because of this. I believe Apple have patents for 'multi-touch' touchscreens and research labs associated with them have been working on exactly the same type of interface. The IPhone with it's two finger zooming of images was just the first example of such a system at a small scale. I wouldn't be too surprised if they were planning a similar system as Surface for the future.