I closed out this week speaking with Nigel Keam, Architect, and Mark Bolger, Director of Marketing for Microsoft Surface. Both are very proud of their product and have every reason to be.
Microsoft Surface is a 30-inch display in a table-like form factor designed to bring friends and family together through the sharing of technology. Users can share photos, play games and complete everyday tasks by using hand gestures, touch or other physical objects with Microsoft Surface. This new custom software platform runs atop Windows Vista and is a good way to highlight the flexibility of the new OS in conjunction with new hardware and applications designed specifically for Windows Vista. Although it’s maybe hard to imagine all that Surface will be able to do in the future, I have to say that today, even in its infancy, it’s astonishing!
It all started with the idea of blending the physical and the virtual worlds through technology, because although technology might bring us closer together in some ways, it can isolate us in others. Family members often use computers in separate rooms and email or instant message each other to communicate (how many of you can relate?).
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