http://venturebeat.com/2007/05/30/microsoft-surface-the-computer-as-your-living-room-table/ News About Tech, Money and Innovation Wed, 25 Nov 2009 12:19:57 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5 hourly 1 http://venturebeat.com/2007/05/30/microsoft-surface-the-computer-as-your-living-room-table/comment-page-1/#comment-213040 Raj Thu, 31 May 2007 04:04:27 +0000 http://venturebeat.com/2007/05/30/microsoft-surface-the-computer-as-your-living-room-table/#comment-213040 I partially agree with what you have said. Microsoft and Google at this point have a lot of R&D clout, focusing on technologies that focus on a wide range of technological breakthroughs. Apple's focus is mainly on the consumer-chique, namely products and gadgets that appeal to a refined technological crowd. While I am not trying to defend Microsoft, I think it is important to still objectively view this new table PC as a very interesting addition to the consumer market. I remember reading an article a while ago of Sony developing something similar, whereby you placed little glass tile modules on a surface and the surface read those tiles and did things like play music or display visual effects, etc. I don't exactly remember what happened to it though. I partially agree with what you have said. Microsoft and Google at this point have a lot of R&D clout, focusing on technologies that focus on a wide range of technological breakthroughs. Apple’s focus is mainly on the consumer-chique, namely products and gadgets that appeal to a refined technological crowd. While I am not trying to defend Microsoft, I think it is important to still objectively view this new table PC as a very interesting addition to the consumer market. I remember reading an article a while ago of Sony developing something similar, whereby you placed little glass tile modules on a surface and the surface read those tiles and did things like play music or display visual effects, etc. I don’t exactly remember what happened to it though.

]]> http://venturebeat.com/2007/05/30/microsoft-surface-the-computer-as-your-living-room-table/comment-page-1/#comment-211458 Anonymous Geek Wed, 30 May 2007 19:25:39 +0000 http://venturebeat.com/2007/05/30/microsoft-surface-the-computer-as-your-living-room-table/#comment-211458 so what does it do that a $500 Apple iPhone cannot and I can take that with me in my pocket when I leave the coffee house. in the five years they spent making it, Google and Apple changed the way consumers interact with computers and the Internet. Microsoft has done precious little to influence that interaction in the past five years and this appears to be another failed attempt by the suits in seattle. so what does it do that a $500 Apple iPhone cannot and I can take that with me in my pocket when I leave the coffee house. in the five years they spent making it, Google and Apple changed the way consumers interact with computers and the Internet. Microsoft has done precious little to influence that interaction in the past five years and this appears to be another failed attempt by the suits in seattle.

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