Microsoft Surface: it is like an iPhone, in table form

kick ass MS !!!! apple folks dont compare ur shit to ours ...just acknowledge that the product is good

if it's only commercial why taunt us with a couple on couch? c'mon microsoft.

cant see microsoft pulling this one off. Lets pull this apart:
• They say multi-input, i.e fingers, but get 3 people working at the same time resizing pictures, down loading etc.
• All demo's were 1 person...I do canned demo's, i see the smoke and the mirrors :)
• I bet children could cash it, all drawing at once.
• what OS, Vista? No chance!
• table tops aren't ergonomic, looking down all day would kill ya
• Evolution isn't Desk Top, Lap Top, Palm Top, Table Top!?! Whats next, stone and Chisel?
• and try to determine a round glass of nuts from a glass of beer, or an ash try......if ash tray exist by then!
Nice idea though, and a wow factor when you see it.

No one has brought up yet, that this technology will be perfect for children (and seniors).

Since I work with touchscreens, my own daughter learned to use a touchscreen interface from the age of two. Long before she could handle a mouse, she knew hundreds of submenus for learning websites, and even (to my surprise) figured out how to drag objects using her finger.

The idea of a touch table is not new
here is one for mapping applications
http://www.esri.com/library/fliers/pdfs/cs-northrop-grumman.pdf
Kudos to Microsoft for taking it to a whole new level. The price is about right for the target audience but would like to see them make something like this for the consumer market. I work with Mapping applications all day something like this would be really slick. Imagine using my hand to dray instead of a mouse. Hmmphf....

Can anyone say...."back problems"....it will never sell.....

iPhone wasn't the first touchscreen device, nintendo DS was first! Give credit where credit is due

Finally! a digital solution for board games. My friends are not going to be able to cheat at Risk anymore...

Take that Steve Jobs, man who says MS has no style and never creates anything innovative.

I wonder if this is the same type of technology they showed at TED last year, which was amazing. If it is then microsoft will have a hit but the cost needs to fall dramatically.