Have you heard about the Microsoft Surface™?
If yes, then you have a news - AT&T has become the first company in the world to bring Microsoft Surface™ to life in a retail environment, giving customers the ability to explore their mobile worlds using touch and device recognition technology. Beginning April 17, visitors to AT&T stores in New York City, Atlanta, San Antonio, and San Francisco are experiencing Surface in person. Read more about this CNET Review.
If you have not heard about Surface, it is a table like device with a touch screen like display on top of it. Microsoft is starting an user-interface revolution with this rich multimedia device. Users can interact with Surface easily and can even exchange media/data easily as Surface has the capability to interact with various devices at one go. MS plans to install it in retail outlets of its partners giving them a great marketing tool. You might want to take a look at their super cool website at www.surface.com.
I am eagerly waiting for it to enter India. As the site promises, I guess, it would be cool to play with it. Talking about the site, you might want to notice that it (the jazzy UI) is made entirely in Macromedia Flash while Microsoft is all out promoting its new Silverlight as THE COOLEST technology.. any Microsoft insiders reading this? You better search for an answer..
-Rahul