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Microsoft Surface.

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How many of you are exited about this technology? It is my believe that Apple is going to bringing multi-touch to the Personal Computer world. Even though Microsoft seems to come out with this first, I still believe Apple got something up their sleeve.

I also think Mac OS X is the last Mac OS versions... :D

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I'm excited about terminals. They are headed in the wrong direction. :wink:
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I'm very conflicted about this... I *loved* this technology when I started seeing demo videos of it about a year ago, and thought it was about time someone got rid of the mouse/keyboard paradigm, but for it to be Microsoft? That pains me. I'm not a generic MS-hater (I own an Xbox, and plan on getting a 360 at some point), but they're gonna have this *so* wrapped up proprietary-like... ugh.

Not that apple's any better in that sense, but I hope they do have something up their sleeve. The only thing that's ever kept me from going Mac was the price of admission.

And a tertiary note: the compiz cube would be *awesome* on one of these.
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astions wrote:I'm excited about terminals. They are headed in the wrong direction. :wink:
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I'm all for surface computing, but I wouldn't buy it if it was Mac OR Microsoft. Both companies would throw in proprietary portions that make it not worth having since one version works with half of my stuff, and the other works with the other half of my stuff. I'd rather it be a third party that makes a standard operating interface so that any new technology would want to implement it if they wanted their product to be marketable.
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I don't think Microsoft developed surface computing. They are just the ones most prominently attempting to profit by it in the future at the moment. They have added some things to it, but the technology was demo'd well before MS demo'd their version.
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Everah wrote:I don't think Microsoft developed surface computing. They are just the ones most prominently attempting to profit by it in the future at the moment. They have added some things to it, but the technology was demo'd well before MS demo'd their version.
I think you're right about this...
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Post by Benjamin »

Yeah I know they copied it from someone, I just can't remember who. In fact, someone posted about it in this forum quite a while back oogling over it.
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I noticed on slashdot this morning there was a headline about an open version of something very similar... (I didn't look much past the headline being that I'm at work) ... so I can be happy about this again :)
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