Apple's Competition to upcoming Microsoft "Vienna" - Page 3

Lt Major Burns · #17 May 29th, 2007, 05:56 PM

one thing to take into note though, is that doug englebart considered many ways of interating eith elements on screen, including the most obvious touch screen. the mouse won.

Lt Major Burns · #18 May 30th, 2007, 04:52 AM

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/6703249.stm

http://www.microsoft.com/surface/

it's really impressive... they've not gone down the creative design route, but what they have done is thought quite heavily outside the box in terms of business useage... it's all a bit jeff han, but it's still very very nice.

well done MS!

supanatral · #19 May 30th, 2007, 01:52 PM

I wonder what this is going to inspire Apple to do

Sorry guys but forget about apple, i want this!

The only thing is that it is way to raticle and so disorganized looking. I mean from the way the videos looked, the computer knew exactly what you wanted to do and when you wanted to do it which is impossible. If it comes out then it will be absolutly incredible, however I would highly doubt it. It's like the concept cars that are off the wall, they never come out.

The other issue is that everything has to become compatible with it. Once you have this, now you need to get a new cell phone, camera, palm pilot, etc.

Now for the final conclusion I've drawn. This looks to be more of a console then a computer.

Qion · #20 May 31st, 2007, 02:04 PM

How 'bout it, Fryke?

icemanjc · #21 May 31st, 2007, 02:47 PM

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Originally Posted by Lt Major Burns

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/6703249.stm

http://www.microsoft.com/surface/

it's really impressive... they've not gone down the creative design route, but what they have done is thought quite heavily outside the box in terms of business useage... it's all a bit jeff han, but it's still very very nice.

well done MS!

You do know, that they did not develope the technology, it was a third party that they took it from.

Qion · #22 May 31st, 2007, 04:14 PM

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Originally Posted by icemanjc

You do know, that they did not develope the technology, it was a third party that they took it from.

They say on the site they've been developing it themselves for years.

**fryke** · #23 May 31st, 2007, 09:23 PM

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Originally Posted by Qion

How 'bout it, Fryke?

Doesn't really change my opinion that this won't replace the main interfaces (keyboard/mouse-or-trackpad) for computers anytime soon. For above-stated reasons. Unless your question was off-topic and about palm's Foleo, which is a concept I like. To think that palm releases something which has a screen which is *not* touchscreen, at a time when everybody seems to be all about touchy-feely-biggie-screens...

Qion · #24 May 31st, 2007, 09:54 PM

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Originally Posted by fryke

Doesn't really change my opinion that this won't replace the main interfaces (keyboard/mouse-or-trackpad) for computers anytime soon. For above-stated reasons. Unless your question was off-topic and about palm's Foleo, which is a concept I like. To think that palm releases something which has a screen which is *not* touchscreen, at a time when everybody seems to be all about touchy-feely-biggie-screens...

Good.