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You want touch technology, get an iPhone. That's innovation in
the palm of you hand.
Thought not.
the iPhone is 'innovation' done years ago on the Palm and PocketPC platforms, with a prettier facade.
I think a coffee table using Surface, driving Windows Media Center and acting as the house hold server would be awesome.
Now if they could only get the price down....
Either it's vapor-ware, so it does not exist (or, presumably, take up any space), or it's too big.
Pick one.
store but doesn't fit in the home.
Multitouch screens in the home? Absolutely, that's just a matter
of time. A small refrigerator laying in your living room that
requires you to stick special barcodes on the bottom of
everything you want to use with it? IMO, that's not going to
happen. Not in any significant way.
I think this guy got it right:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CZrr7AZ9nCY
young and active to jump-off of it (like the one in the basement),
and the wife just asked me to hang a small dry erase board on the
back of our pantry door for her simple grocery list.
Where's the real market then?
steel. It cleans and is maintainable to look like new even today!
Very high-quality and reliable - lifetime warranty.
Educational Products Division - 1967.
- Does microsoft finally understand.....
- by HDTV_001 February 4, 2008 3:09 PM PST
- Hope that this article has solid ground.
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(15 Comments)But from past experience i doubt that Microsoft will be able to come out with a working product soon (mean less than three year).
The last attemps i could see is Vista . They pass nearly five years with around 2 million beta testors.
Final product was fairly enough. What is frustrating is to see independant developper create workaround.
Exemple!! Indexing search engine. X1 and Copernic seem to have a far better product than windows desktop search.
The culture of the entreprise does not seem oriented toward developping product.
With hundred of billion$ revenue, thousans developpers we saw no real evelution in their product. I would bet that if the R&D department open their door we could see thousand of interesting productd sleeping on shelf.
Why? or How come....
I might have surface sooner if i purchase a tablet pc with touch capability.
Please microsoft jump over the evolution of your product and go to revolution mode. You have the budget, you have the people they have the experience
P.S. In resume stop developping horizontally the company and concentrate on product vertically so we will get product with depther function.