Touch IS a cool idea. But people must remember:1) Tablet PC's have bombed because of the cost (selling directly to the gangsters in Las Vegas may speak to this realization) 2) This would be a product of the money-losing, failed Xbox division 3) It would be running (presumably) Vista which is none to stable running one simple mouse 4) UI designed by -- MSFT? Not likely to be user-friendly.
Basically, they just wanted to trot this out before the release of the iPhone to make it look like their thousands of engineers were doing something other than FreeCell and Sodoku.
What TomB said.
Freecell and Sodoku! LOL
LOL indeed. But all that said, it is a productization of Jeff Han's work that you can see in the TEDTalks at http://www.ted.com/index.php/tal...alks/view/id/
65 . We'll see how much of a product it actually is come October/November.
Personally, my big question is how long did it take them to calibrate it at the D5 conference where it is being shown today. Keeping 5 cameras and a DLP projector in good registration probably isn't the easiest job in the world. And personally, I want to know where they keep the Vista drivers disks for it too. 
But one other point: remember how skeptical the response was to my article about Leopard doing away with windows? Have you noticed that rectangled drawing areas were pretty scarce on the Surface machine? If Microsoft has picked it up, it has to be getting to be a pretty mainstream idea.
Thanks for the comments,
Carl
Didn't I see this two years ago at some art show???
I mean this is so lame. I'd be embarassed to come out with this crap weeks before one of my main competitors was about to lay the hammer down that would make MS look like the least innovated tech company around.
Oh, it must be time to buy another company!
You've got to love it! Microsoft's new laptop, the size of a coffee table!
What Apple fits into a phone sized package, shipping in a few weeks, Microsoft fits into a coffee table, shipping who knows when, and costing more than ten times as much. I bet it runs pretty warm!
It does look like it could be a fun toy though. For people with lots of room and money.
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