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erandror 2007-06-10 01:03:30 Publish:

Yesterday I went to see the Microsoft Surface public demonstration at the Sheraton in Manhattan. After seeing the amazing videos on the company web site, I expected to be impressed. But I also knew that the product is not quite ready to launch, and so expected it to be much less impressive than the videos suggested.

I was wrong.
While some functionality is still missing, and some minor bugs caused minor lags in one of the three tables presented, the experience was exactly as shown on the web site, and to some extent even better. The paint application, restaurant ordering application, photo sharing and manipulation, are all more or less operational, and should be ready to release by November of this year. The interaction was flawless.

Jeff Gattis, Director of Product Management at Microsoft Surface Computing, presented the different features and answered everyone's questions with apparent candor. While Microsoft is still working on a web browser, and a way to work on documents in Surface, they will focus over the next months on entertainment and shopping applications.

An SDK for developers who want to develop Surface apps will be released to partners with a compelling business plan, and not to the general public. However, the company does not rule out allowing non-Microsoft solutions, including perhaps iTunes, to run on Surface.

Surface probably won't be released to private consumers for the next two years, but the company is working on a thinner version of Surface, which will be easier to use in private homes and offices, as well as to hang on the wall.

As for educational applications of Surface, that is something that they are considering, including partnering with some educational solution providers. (I mentioned Blackboard, Jeff just smiled.) However that is currently not the highest priority, probably because the cost is still so high.

All in all, I got to play with all the different apps, just as they appear on the Microsoft Surface web site, and was surprised at how smoothly and beautifully everything worked. With more multi-touch innovation coming from Jeff Han at Perceptive Pixel, and Apple - I am very excited to see how our lives will change over the next 10 years.

When I came back home, I had to use a keyboard and mouse again. Ugh.

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