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Monday, February 04, 2008

Microsoft Rushing User Version of 'Surface'

Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer said today that Microsoft plans to SPEED UP DEVELOPMENT OF SURFACE FOR CONSUMERS. Glad to hear it, Steve. But first you've got to ship the retail version you promised would ship late last year.

Comments:

Anonymous Shirish said...

Very nice blog! I like the way you put small summaries instead of long passages in each post. Helps people like me who don't want to read too much! Thanks for great work!

Monday, February 04, 2008 2:21:00 PM  
Blogger Ben Roche said...

Now in love with my multi-touch iPod touch, having the "surface" all to myself sounded great until I realized what makes the iPod touch so great is you don't have to move your fingers very far to achieve great control over your technology. What we need isn't a surface screen, we need a multi-touch mousepad, sans mouse. Better yet, can I make my iPod a human input device?!

Monday, February 04, 2008 4:05:00 PM  
Blogger Mike said...

***** Very nice blog! *****

Thank you!

Mike Elgan

Monday, February 04, 2008 4:32:00 PM  
Blogger Luciérnaga said...

What a cool idea Mr. Roche! A touch screen mouse pad. That would be brilliant. I also hope one day they come out with a touch screen keyboard, where you can move add/subtract any keys whenever you want...I type a lot in Latvian and Swedish and I would like a keyboard where I can simply add the swedish and latvian letters to anywhere I want on the touchsreen-keyboard (å ä ö ü ī, etc...)

Tuesday, February 05, 2008 6:42:00 AM  
Blogger Ben Roche said...

Luciernaga,
You might check out:
http://www.artlebedev.com/everything/optimus/

I also noticed Apple patented a multi-touch mouse device.

Tuesday, February 05, 2008 9:23:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Yes, they are six months late.

FYI - If you go to microsoft.com, select "Products", select "UI", and then select "Surface", it tells you that the web page does not exist. If you manually type

http://www.microsoft.com/surface

the web page is there. This is really unusual for Microsoft, I can't remember the last time I found a bad link on their site.

Saturday, April 05, 2008 1:45:00 PM  

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