if that were to ever happen WHICH IT WONT. MS would just get sewed for trying to have a monopoly. AGN

I wonder if there is really a market for this. As cool as the interface and interaction sounds and looks, it would be very tiring to stand in front of your wall waving your arms around. Most people can't even be bothered to get of their couch to get the TV remote, never mind standing in front of a screen for hours.

I would think that gesture/voice recognition would be a better approach. It allows you to control the surface from anywhere and any position. The software and hardware for it is also much closer and cheaper, since you only need a current TV and camera/microphone.

This could work, but on smaller screens that you can put on your lap. But wait, doesn't that already exist?

I think these big touch screens would be really cool, but ultimately useless in a consumer environment. Apart from certain applications like presentations...

that said 360 is better than PS3? Or that Windows is better than OS X? Or that Zune is better than iPod? Or that Windows Live Search will overtake Google?

To much resources of the table surfaces hardware just like the computers the people have today they should have made the software use less resource from the start just like Mac.

Thanks for stating the obvious dumbass. You know what I thought the other day too? All your information will sometime be stored somewhere on the net, for everyone on the planet. And you know what else? Every surface will also take advantage of solar energy.

Everyone: I want to become the new captain obvious, I don't like Bill Gates stealing the scene.

Every wall will be a computer huh? That means upgrading hardware will be a b!tch.

I can't wait. Everything.

Very very few places would benefit from having a computer on every surface.

Yay epileptic sufferers will be extremely happy !

That it won't freeze up like a lot of computers do, won't have to be manually upgraded like normal computers, and the benefit will outweigh the cost at least by 2 to 1. =] Especially if the benefits outweight the cost, I'd help fund it.

Going to be a lot of smudge marks on these touch screens...

i'm looking forward to the day that Big Brother can track every single movement we make, store all our transactions in a giant database, and then use it against us to serve any anti-american citizen plot they may come up with in the near future.

what a wonderful announcement. Hopefully the next big tech news will be the government implanting chips in our brain to make us more accepting of their technological privacy violations.

The Microsoft Surface does indeed look cool, wish I had the money to buy one of these things. MS said that the Surface would cost from $5,000 - $10,000 dollars and it will take a few years to come down to a reasonable cost to the consumer.

If you get BSOD then most of the time (99%) its the hardware of your computer. Also enjoy going on sites which are maliclous because your dumb enough to do so.

Do we really need to have more stuff running around us. A laptop lets you be on a computer anywhere and thats all you need.

Tell me again how the multiplatform strategy was supposed to fix everything. Look at your results and compare them to Nintendo, which keeps thriving with exclusives. Your loyal fans are gone. And let’s not forget the pile of IPs you purchased only to let them rot.

The worst thing is this is down from last years numbers/expectations which was down from the previous years numbers/expectations. You think about how long “down” has been a consistent part of the communication and you realize those subscriptions are what’s holding that boat together. The price cut of gamespass is still a price raise in a string of price raises. They are trying to use players to offset the missing revenue. Now call of duty is out of gamespass, which is literally WHY they bought the company. To draw people to the subscription. They realized they missed a boatload of money and that wasn’t sustainable. Now you pay for it like you would have if they never bought the company… so why buy the company? Mind you those billions still need to be paid back. Yeah it gives you a chance to say we make the biggest FPS… but the internal conversations must be brutal at high level on topics that really matter. Like revenue. Profitability. And ROI for the shopping spree.

Is this like the 10th quarter in a row they're down 33% on hardware how is that even mathematically possible. You would think their mediocrity would Plateau