Apple's Competition to upcoming Microsoft "Vienna"

[icemanjc]

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]

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]

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]

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.