news.bbc.co.uk— A second generation of Microsoft's Surface computing device is two to three years away, the South by SouthWest Festival has heard.
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To the original poster - I don't see Apple bothering with this. Apple already implemented this in the iPhone, why make a table when you can carry it in your pocket? I used a MS 'Surface' and it's neat, but not very practical in the way you have to lurch in towards it and the resolution was too low to really allow pleasant viewing of photos, which was about all it was enabled to do anyway.I think the iPhone/personal tablet direction will ultimately prove more useful to people, with group computing handled by the TV/Computer hybrid on the wall. The 'coffee table' computer is getting a yawn out of me.
*sigh* i f**king hate microsoft sometimes. they keep their best s**t to themselves. remember all the cool features in longhorn that didn't make it into vista (and not even windows 7)?just one example of many...
refragMar 16, 2009
"In the meantime, some other company did come and make multitouch actually work for the masses."There. Fixed that for you.
billionsMar 16, 2009
To the original poster - I don't see Apple bothering with this. Apple already implemented this in the iPhone, why make a table when you can carry it in your pocket? I used a MS 'Surface' and it's neat, but not very practical in the way you have to lurch in towards it and the resolution was too low to really allow pleasant viewing of photos, which was about all it was enabled to do anyway.I think the iPhone/personal tablet direction will ultimately prove more useful to people, with group computing handled by the TV/Computer hybrid on the wall. The 'coffee table' computer is getting a yawn out of me.
billionsMar 16, 2009
...That has to be plugged in somehow. Get the gaffer's tape.
woollymittensMar 16, 2009
Does the world really need a second generation of over-sized coffee tables you can rub your paws over to rotate photos?
barynMar 16, 2009
But I've already stopped caring.
Closed AccountMar 16, 2009
*sigh* i f**king hate microsoft sometimes. they keep their best s**t to themselves. remember all the cool features in longhorn that didn't make it into vista (and not even windows 7)?just one example of many...
Closed AccountMar 17, 2009
By the way, I like Microsoft too...
f1loMar 22, 2009
Building 19