Microsoft Surface - Set For Commercial Launch.
Posted by HappyAndyK on 02 April 2008 - 13:41 · 22 comments & 9154 views
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#1 Posted by LTD on 02 Apr 2008 - 13:53
- Yaaay. Now we get to use Microsoft's Big Ass Table in public!
"Exploring, learning, sharing, creating, buying and much more" . . . while standing there with bags in your hand or in a restaurant surrounded by a crowd of other people, or worse, while standing in line waiting to use it.
Call me when I can use something like that about 20 times smaller and in the comfort of my own home.
Oh wait . . . the iPhone platform. -
#1.1 Posted by ahhell on 02 Apr 2008 - 13:59
- Wow. That has got to be the most blatant trolling that I have ever seen.
Bravo, sir, bravo. -
#1.2 Posted by Windam on 02 Apr 2008 - 14:15
- you sir have lost your balls..
You bring shame to the apple clan in general -
#1.3 Posted by C_Guy on 02 Apr 2008 - 14:31
- Yep, Apple fans will think it's just a giant iPhone. It's called ignorance.
Microsoft is way ahead of Apple (as usual) and they can't stand it. But once they try it they will like it. They just won't ever admit it out loud. -
#1.4 Posted by LTD on 02 Apr 2008 - 14:33
- (Windam said @ #1.2)you sir have lost your balls..
You bring shame to the apple clan in general
Well, think about it.
MS releases something new, amazing, that is supposed to help you explore, learn, share, create, buy, and more.
But it's not really for you, to use at your own convenience, wherever and whenever you choose.
Instead, they'll stick it in AT&T stores, then perhaps expand it to more AT&T stores, and then, possibly, hopefully, to other stores. And maybe, someday, they'll be everywhere.
But what do YOU get out of all this today? Tomorrow? Next month? -
#1.5 Posted by JiveMasterT on 02 Apr 2008 - 14:48
- (LTD said @ #1.4)But what do YOU get out of all this today? Tomorrow? Next month?
I get to hear the ramblings of an idiot today. Thanks.
You are clearly not very well educated in the point of Surface and it's target audience and function. It's not supposed to be a giant iPhone and it never ever will be. Just because AT&T stores bought into it first doesn't mean you won't see it everywhere in the next few years. I look forward to the day when I sit down at an Applebee's with a party of 20 and we can split the bill on the table with relative ease.
So stop making an ass of yourself and maybe go back to the cave you came from. This is only the beginning and you're missing the point, trolling, and just looking like a fool. -
#1.6 Posted by +Skwerl on 02 Apr 2008 - 14:55
- (LTD said @ #1.4)(Windam said @ #1.2)you sir have lost your balls..
You bring shame to the apple clan in general
Well, think about it.
MS releases something new, amazing, that is supposed to help you explore, learn, share, create, buy, and more.
But it's not really for you, to use at your own convenience, wherever and whenever you choose.
Instead, they'll stick it in AT&T stores, then perhaps expand it to more AT&T stores, and then, possibly, hopefully, to other stores. And maybe, someday, they'll be everywhere.
But what do YOU get out of all this today? Tomorrow? Next month?
You truly are ignorant. These are commercial systems. Are you going to bitch because Microsoft Point of Sale isn't at Circuit City for you to purchase and use at home? The consumer model is planned to be available in 2009. -
#1.7 Posted by Odom on 02 Apr 2008 - 15:06
- (C_Guy said @ #1.3)Yep, Apple fans will think it's just a giant iPhone. It's called ignorance.
Microsoft is way ahead of Apple (as usual) and they can't stand it. But once they try it they will like it. They just won't ever admit it out loud.
Don't you mean iGnorance ??
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#1.8 Posted by +Skwerl on 02 Apr 2008 - 15:11
- (Odom said @ #1.7)Don't you mean iGnorance ??
You get 5 points for that.
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#1.9 Posted by helios01 on 02 Apr 2008 - 22:31
- (LTD said @ #1.4)(Windam said @ #1.2)you sir have lost your balls..
You bring shame to the apple clan in general
Well, think about it.
MS releases something new, amazing, that is supposed to help you explore, learn, share, create, buy, and more.
But it's not really for you, to use at your own convenience, wherever and whenever you choose.
Instead, they'll stick it in AT&T stores, then perhaps expand it to more AT&T stores, and then, possibly, hopefully, to other stores. And maybe, someday, they'll be everywhere.
But what do YOU get out of all this today? Tomorrow? Next month?
Desktops computers in general??? a couple of decades ago who had computers? that's how technology moves, it starts being used in business, then expanded, improved and mass produced and eventually it finds its way into our households. It wouldn't make sense economically to sell such an expensive product (for now) to the general public. -
#1.10 Posted by +rm20010 on 03 Apr 2008 - 02:12
- News flash for OP: Yes, innovation does happen a few hundred miles north of the Mothership.
What do you think they do up there, jump up and down on bouncy balls all day?
(okay that's what the Windows Live team does, I'll give you that one.) -
#1.11 Posted by Esvandiary on 03 Apr 2008 - 09:38
- (rm20010 said @ #1.10)(okay that's what the Windows Live team does, I'll give you that one.) That was good.
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#2 Posted by +Skwerl on 02 Apr 2008 - 15:04
- I'm actually really surprised to hear this. I used something that I thought was Microsoft Surface at a brand new Sprint store in Kansas City's Power and Light entertainment district last weekend. It was a touch-sensitive table that you could play with or place objects on to get information about various phone models and applications. It sounds like there could be some patent troubles on the way for whatever company developed these installations that Sprint has.
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#3 Posted by Nose Nuggets on 02 Apr 2008 - 16:36
- smart move for att. just having this new product in stores will bring people in the door, even if they dont plan to buy a new handset or sing up for wireless service.
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#4 Posted by QuarterSwede on 02 Apr 2008 - 16:40
- While I like the idea I'm not sure how much easier this will make things. Currently you go to an AT&T store, pick it up a phone, use it and read the info that have on the display. In the future you'll go to the AT&T store, pick up a phone, use it and put it on a table that will give you more info. It could make getting information easier but then again it's all based on how they implement it.
As far as splitting your bill up goes, that's what waitresses are for.
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#5 Posted by thenewbf on 02 Apr 2008 - 20:27
- Does anyone else find it ironic that, since the Surface will be in AT&T stores, Microsoft's touchscreen device will likely be selling Apple's touchscreen device?
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#6 Posted by LTD on 03 Apr 2008 - 07:51
- Most of what these table can do, you'll probably be able to do from an iPhone anyway, on the way to one of these tables.
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#6.1 Posted by Scirwode on 03 Apr 2008 - 08:34
- You mean your phone is a cash register/menu/bill amount ?
Scirwode -
#6.2 Posted by Esvandiary on 03 Apr 2008 - 09:40
- No matter how many people call him on the trolling and how uninformed his comments are, he still carries on...
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#6.3 Posted by +macf13nd on 03 Apr 2008 - 12:11
- (Esvandiary said @ #6.2)No matter how many people call him on the trolling and how uninformed his comments are, he still carries on...
Death, taxes and LTD's uninformed illogical ramblings.
Microsoft Surface is a 30-inch table-like display that gives individuals or multiple people the opportunity to interact with devices and content in a way that feels familiar — by using touch, gestures and placement of devices on the display. In essence, it’s a surface come to life for exploring, learning, sharing, creating, buying and much more.