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The Surface of Things to Come |
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Wednesday, 30 May 2007 |
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Talk about drag and drop. Microsoft seems finally to be back in the technology
leadership business with the unveiling of Surface, a new software/hardware
offering that takes "digital" both to the future and back to its origins: the
human hand as the ultimate computing device, easily manipulating all of your
integrated tech toys and tools as you always imagined possible. Let's hope it's
not just a bunch of hype. (And while we're at it: nobody mention to Gates &
Co. that Apple has delivered the power of unified software and hardware, and
intuitive interfaces for a long time now. Still, this round goes to the folks
in Redmond!)
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Make no mistake. That "ours" is the one Microsoft has built. The world they... own. I, for one, will embrace our coffee table overlords.
I bet we'll see some great video parodies of this before too long.
E.