Comments on: How Microsoft Surface Will Change the World Like the iPod Did for Apple http://svenontech.com/2007/05/30/how-microsoft-surface-will-change-the-world-like-the-ipod-did-for-apple/ The technology resource you can't resist! Thu, 18 Mar 2010 21:30:43 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: rickag http://svenontech.com/2007/05/30/how-microsoft-surface-will-change-the-world-like-the-ipod-did-for-apple/comment-page-1/#comment-102905 rickag Fri, 01 Jun 2007 14:41:26 +0000 http://svenontech.com/2007/05/30/how-microsoft-surface-will-change-the-world-like-the-ipod-did-for-apple/#comment-102905 Oh may aching back. Staring down on a table for using a computer is just a bad idea. Briefly using one in a business situation may be acceptable. But sitting on a couch or chair and mucking with a screen pointing straight up at you is a bad idea. Oh may aching back. Staring down on a table for using a computer is just a bad idea. Briefly using one in a business situation may be acceptable. But sitting on a couch or chair and mucking with a screen pointing straight up at you is a bad idea.

]]> By: Sven Rafferty http://svenontech.com/2007/05/30/how-microsoft-surface-will-change-the-world-like-the-ipod-did-for-apple/comment-page-1/#comment-102870 Sven Rafferty Fri, 01 Jun 2007 04:05:20 +0000 http://svenontech.com/2007/05/30/how-microsoft-surface-will-change-the-world-like-the-ipod-did-for-apple/#comment-102870 Crap! Microsoft must think I'm going to buy this table then, John, if I'm the only with these bar codes! :) Seriously, though, I have 'em. My AMEX card is a Costco card and my Visa is from a lesser known bank, so maybe that's why. Currently my sky color is black with a faint dark blue. :) Crap! Microsoft must think I’m going to buy this table then, John, if I’m the only with these bar codes! :) Seriously, though, I have ‘em. My AMEX card is a Costco card and my Visa is from a lesser known bank, so maybe that’s why.

Currently my sky color is black with a faint dark blue. :)

]]> By: John http://svenontech.com/2007/05/30/how-microsoft-surface-will-change-the-world-like-the-ipod-did-for-apple/comment-page-1/#comment-102869 John Fri, 01 Jun 2007 02:26:41 +0000 http://svenontech.com/2007/05/30/how-microsoft-surface-will-change-the-world-like-the-ipod-did-for-apple/#comment-102869 Also Having followed your advice NONE of my credit cards have barcodes - neither has my Nikon digital Camera - what colour is the sky where you live? Also

Having followed your advice NONE of my credit cards have barcodes – neither has my Nikon digital Camera – what colour is the sky where you live?

]]> By: John http://svenontech.com/2007/05/30/how-microsoft-surface-will-change-the-world-like-the-ipod-did-for-apple/comment-page-1/#comment-102868 John Fri, 01 Jun 2007 01:43:25 +0000 http://svenontech.com/2007/05/30/how-microsoft-surface-will-change-the-world-like-the-ipod-did-for-apple/#comment-102868 Careful Sven with quotes like "Nunuvyer, your statement on every Apple product is just like that of what you accuse Microsoft of: products that aren’t shipping. Remember Steve Jobs said at last years WWDC that we’d see Leopard within the year. Yet next week he’ll be doing a rerun of the very dog and pony show of last year…of a product that still has months before it hits the shelves. Microsoft Surface will surely be available before Leopard! The iPhone is certain to release in “June” but don’t be surprised if the date is closer to Independence Day than WWDC day." This is beginning to resemble the time when you said "Macworld will be a wash out because of CES" and that ended up being QUITE a wash out as the iPhone seemed to drown out most of the other news happening at CES and many journalist were left saying "why aren't we at MacWorld?" Anyroad - clunky is what I said and clunky is what I meant - does it really require 5 cameras to do this kind of stuff? Will that REALLY be practical? It's all smoke and mirrors mate. The whole point of this was to try and get SOME kind of buzz about Microsoft at D: and generally - looking at the press coverage - the press wasn't fooled. Careful Sven with quotes like

“Nunuvyer, your statement on every Apple product is just like that of what you accuse Microsoft of: products that aren’t shipping. Remember Steve Jobs said at last years WWDC that we’d see Leopard within the year. Yet next week he’ll be doing a rerun of the very dog and pony show of last year…of a product that still has months before it hits the shelves. Microsoft Surface will surely be available before Leopard!

The iPhone is certain to release in “June” but don’t be surprised if the date is closer to Independence Day than WWDC day.”

This is beginning to resemble the time when you said “Macworld will be a wash out because of CES” and that ended up being QUITE a wash out as the iPhone seemed to drown out most of the other news happening at CES and many journalist were left saying “why aren’t we at MacWorld?”

Anyroad – clunky is what I said and clunky is what I meant – does it really require 5 cameras to do this kind of stuff? Will that REALLY be practical? It’s all smoke and mirrors mate.

The whole point of this was to try and get SOME kind of buzz about Microsoft at D: and generally – looking at the press coverage – the press wasn’t fooled.

]]> By: Sven Rafferty http://svenontech.com/2007/05/30/how-microsoft-surface-will-change-the-world-like-the-ipod-did-for-apple/comment-page-1/#comment-102858 Sven Rafferty Thu, 31 May 2007 21:11:15 +0000 http://svenontech.com/2007/05/30/how-microsoft-surface-will-change-the-world-like-the-ipod-did-for-apple/#comment-102858 John, take a look at your cameras bottom. Look at your credit cards. Note anything? My Nikon D70 and my Visa and AMEX all have bar codes on them. Think they knew about this Surface thing years before we did or maybe Microsoft just saw a pattern in the industry and seized on it? :) John, take a look at your cameras bottom. Look at your credit cards. Note anything? My Nikon D70 and my Visa and AMEX all have bar codes on them. Think they knew about this Surface thing years before we did or maybe Microsoft just saw a pattern in the industry and seized on it? :)

]]> By: Sven Rafferty http://svenontech.com/2007/05/30/how-microsoft-surface-will-change-the-world-like-the-ipod-did-for-apple/comment-page-1/#comment-102857 Sven Rafferty Thu, 31 May 2007 21:07:55 +0000 http://svenontech.com/2007/05/30/how-microsoft-surface-will-change-the-world-like-the-ipod-did-for-apple/#comment-102857 Nunuvyer, your statement on every Apple product is just like that of what you accuse Microsoft of: products that aren't shipping. Remember Steve Jobs said at <em>last years</em> WWDC that we'd see Leopard within the year. Yet next week he'll be doing a rerun of the very dog and pony show of last year...of a product that still has months before it hits the shelves. Microsoft Surface will surely be available before Leopard! The iPhone is certain to release in "June" but don't be surprised if the date is closer to Independence Day than WWDC day. As to everyones Jeff Han comparison, yes, SvenOnTech <a href="http://svenontech.com/2007/02/11/jeff-han-the-reason-for-the-iphones-multi-touch-interface/" rel="nofollow">featured an article</a> on him months ago and yes, multi-touch isn't cutting edge news; however, note that Jobs cronies where one of the first to ask Han on the iPhone project (but not specified as such when he was asked) after his TED presentation and he declined Apple's offer. So let's not be so quick to call Apple "cool" when it too did what Gates has done as well. There's a long list of Apple success that's not Apple's to begin with. Nunuvyer, your statement on every Apple product is just like that of what you accuse Microsoft of: products that aren’t shipping. Remember Steve Jobs said at last years WWDC that we’d see Leopard within the year. Yet next week he’ll be doing a rerun of the very dog and pony show of last year…of a product that still has months before it hits the shelves. Microsoft Surface will surely be available before Leopard!

The iPhone is certain to release in “June” but don’t be surprised if the date is closer to Independence Day than WWDC day.

As to everyones Jeff Han comparison, yes, SvenOnTech featured an article on him months ago and yes, multi-touch isn’t cutting edge news; however, note that Jobs cronies where one of the first to ask Han on the iPhone project (but not specified as such when he was asked) after his TED presentation and he declined Apple’s offer. So let’s not be so quick to call Apple “cool” when it too did what Gates has done as well. There’s a long list of Apple success that’s not Apple’s to begin with.

]]> By: Nunuvyer Bizniz http://svenontech.com/2007/05/30/how-microsoft-surface-will-change-the-world-like-the-ipod-did-for-apple/comment-page-1/#comment-102849 Nunuvyer Bizniz Thu, 31 May 2007 18:36:27 +0000 http://svenontech.com/2007/05/30/how-microsoft-surface-will-change-the-world-like-the-ipod-did-for-apple/#comment-102849 Actually, this faked product release is just another desperate attempt by Microsoft to appear innovative. It may look new to the uneducated public, but the computer industry has been following the multi-touch story for a while now. Microsoft showed nothing that Jeff Han hasn't already been showing us for a year, and Apple is way ahead with a multi-touch product release, the iPhone, and resolution-independence, coming in Leopard, which is critical to multi-touch functionality. This obvious fake job was timed to make Bill Gates look cool sitting next to Steve Jobs yesterday - a hopeless impossibility. Actually, this faked product release is just another desperate attempt by Microsoft to appear innovative. It may look new to the uneducated public, but the computer industry has been following the multi-touch story for a while now. Microsoft showed nothing that Jeff Han hasn’t already been showing us for a year, and Apple is way ahead with a multi-touch product release, the iPhone, and resolution-independence, coming in Leopard, which is critical to multi-touch functionality. This obvious fake job was timed to make Bill Gates look cool sitting next to Steve Jobs yesterday – a hopeless impossibility.

]]> By: James http://svenontech.com/2007/05/30/how-microsoft-surface-will-change-the-world-like-the-ipod-did-for-apple/comment-page-1/#comment-102848 James Thu, 31 May 2007 18:18:07 +0000 http://svenontech.com/2007/05/30/how-microsoft-surface-will-change-the-world-like-the-ipod-did-for-apple/#comment-102848 This multi-touch table PC technology has been show several other places, so is not the new gee-whiz tech that Gates is presenting it as. It has some nice features, but is hardly paradigm changing. Also, do you know how often you're going to have to clean that screen? Even clean human hands will leave an oily residue behind, not to mention whatever kids hands have gotten into. Finally, Apple has also demonstrated multi-touch technology in its iPhone, iPhone is running Mac OS X. so it's not a great leap to see that MT tech applied to desktop and laptop systems in the same time frame or earlier than Gates predicted. This multi-touch table PC technology has been show several other places, so is not the new gee-whiz tech that Gates is presenting it as. It has some nice features, but is hardly paradigm changing. Also, do you know how often you’re going to have to clean that screen? Even clean human hands will leave an oily residue behind, not to mention whatever kids hands have gotten into.

Finally, Apple has also demonstrated multi-touch technology in its iPhone, iPhone is running Mac OS X. so it’s not a great leap to see that MT tech applied to desktop and laptop systems in the same time frame or earlier than Gates predicted.

]]> By: Scott http://svenontech.com/2007/05/30/how-microsoft-surface-will-change-the-world-like-the-ipod-did-for-apple/comment-page-1/#comment-102845 Scott Thu, 31 May 2007 17:04:06 +0000 http://svenontech.com/2007/05/30/how-microsoft-surface-will-change-the-world-like-the-ipod-did-for-apple/#comment-102845 I don't agree with your statements regarding the surface computer. As others have said it's bulky and expensive. Plus, you wouldn't use it for the most common efforts on a computer, email, word processing, spreadsheets, programming. Finally, Jeff Han has been showing this technology for over a year. Microsoft is once again a follower and not an innovator. I don’t agree with your statements regarding the surface computer.

As others have said it’s bulky and expensive. Plus, you wouldn’t use it for the most common efforts on a computer, email, word processing, spreadsheets, programming.

Finally, Jeff Han has been showing this technology for over a year. Microsoft is once again a follower and not an innovator.

]]> By: smartcow http://svenontech.com/2007/05/30/how-microsoft-surface-will-change-the-world-like-the-ipod-did-for-apple/comment-page-1/#comment-102843 smartcow Thu, 31 May 2007 16:19:08 +0000 http://svenontech.com/2007/05/30/how-microsoft-surface-will-change-the-world-like-the-ipod-did-for-apple/#comment-102843 Surface has one killer aspect, the integration of real and virtual objects that could make this great. But the Zune had one killer feature, the wireless social networking, that M$ managed to just restrict to the point of uselessness. If the barcode can be expanded to read the credit card numbers on the back of you card, and the wi-fi and/or blue tooth interface is made wide open, this surface technology with the seamless integration of the real and virtual objects has the potential to significantly change the way we interface with our personal computers on a daily basis. I worry that M$ will not do this right, whereas if this was an Apple tool set, I would be excited beyond belief. The real object aspect of this can be just amazing if done right. Surface has one killer aspect, the integration of real and virtual objects that could make this great. But the Zune had one killer feature, the wireless social networking, that M$ managed to just restrict to the point of uselessness.

If the barcode can be expanded to read the credit card numbers on the back of you card, and the wi-fi and/or blue tooth interface is made wide open, this surface technology with the seamless integration of the real and virtual objects has the potential to significantly change the way we interface with our personal computers on a daily basis.

I worry that M$ will not do this right, whereas if this was an Apple tool set, I would be excited beyond belief. The real object aspect of this can be just amazing if done right.

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