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  Microsoft Launches New Product Category: Surface Computing Comes to Life in Restaurants, Hotels, Retail Locations and Casino Resorts
Time: 23:02 EST/04:02 GMT | News Source: Microsoft Press Release | Posted By: Jonathan Tigner

Picture a surface that can recognize physical objects from a paintbrush to a cell phone and allows hands-on, direct control of content such as photos, music and maps. Today at the Wall Street Journal’s D: All Things Digital conference, Microsoft Corp. CEO Steve Ballmer will unveil Microsoft Surface™, the first in a new category of surface computing products from Microsoft that breaks down traditional barriers between people and technology. Surface turns an ordinary tabletop into a vibrant, dynamic surface that provides effortless interaction with all forms of digital content through natural gestures, touch and physical objects. Beginning at the end of this year, consumers will be able to interact with Surface in hotels, retail establishments, restaurants and public entertainment venues.

The intuitive user interface works without a traditional mouse or keyboard, allowing people to interact with content and information on their own or collaboratively with their friends and families, just like in the real world. Surface is a 30-inch display in a table-like form factor that small groups can use at the same time. From digital finger painting to a virtual concierge, Surface brings natural interaction to the digital world in a new and exciting way.

“With Surface, we are creating more intuitive ways for people to interact with technology,” Ballmer said. “We see this as a multibillion dollar category, and we envision a time when surface computing technologies will be pervasive, from tabletops and counters to the hallway mirror. Surface is the first step in realizing that vision.”

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#1 By 79743 (88.193.44.6) at 5/30/2007 8:12:07 AM
Bollocks, I say. A couple of months and it has buried to the graveyard of useless hi-tech gadgets.

#2 By 3746 (72.12.166.62) at 5/30/2007 8:30:49 AM
I diagree - did you watch the video? There are some very cool technologies here. Whether it continues on in this form or some of the the tech gets filtered to other things it is all worthwhile.

I loved the restaurant portion - ordering, paying, loyalty cards and all touch interactive. It is pretty slick.

#3 By 7390 (69.113.155.216) at 5/30/2007 8:46:36 AM
I forsee tons of DRM, copyright, patent issues with this thing. I spans so many different technologies that I am sure that patent holding with try to get some money out of microsoft.

also, I am sure that they had a supercomputer/mainframe running this thing. Just the video editing alone would tax most publicly available systems today.


#4 By 32132 (142.32.208.234) at 5/30/2007 10:20:18 AM
#3 "Uses a custom software interface on top of Microsoft's Windows Vista. Comes with wired Ethernet, integrated Wi-Fi and Bluetooth wireless, hard drive and 1 GHz processor."

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#5 By 7754 (216.160.8.41) at 5/30/2007 1:38:04 PM
Describing the "multi-touch" interface for the iPhone launch, didn't Jobs say something like, "And believe me... we've patented it!"?

#6 By 2459 (69.22.113.215) at 5/30/2007 6:45:21 PM
#5, He did, but it's the usual fluff to convince the faithful that Apple invented the technology and moreso that a patent would cover more than their implementation of such technology.

Multi-touch interfaces were in development by several other companies/universities years before the iPhone's announcement (including Surface, in table and upright configurations, a similar device from Jeff Han, and a few companies that have licensed the MSR PlayAnywhere technology upon which Surface is based). The implementation is different between the devices, and in the portable device space, companies like Synaptics also have multitouch implementations that ODMs can integrate into their devices.

This is an industry shift towards new forms of interaction. Surface computing is one form. Natural language, handwriting, etc., are other forms (and there are also tweaks to the usual mouse/kb interface). Most of these interaction methods will be used in concert , rather than in isolation, combined with better data visualization techniques to give the user the best interface for their current environment/context.

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