Larry Larsen from on10.net recently did a more in depth article on Microsoft's new product.
Here is some of what he said,
"About a year ago I gave a presentation to a group of journalists about gadgets of the future and showed a video about a theoretical multi-touch computing system. When asked when we would see something like that in the wild, I optimistically ballparked 5-7 years. You can imagine my surprise when I walked into a room at Microsoft and found a fully functioning Microsoft Surface Computer (more than one, actually.)"
To read more and see a video, click on the link.
Microsoft announced its financial results for Q3 of fiscal year 2026, including an update on its gaming Xbox business and more.
Not looking good. Hopefully Asha Sharma is able to turn Phil’s disaster around.
To me it's still quite remarkable how they can cash-in 5.3bn in revenue in a single quarter, since their hardware is basically dead.
The stock mark is what makes Microsoft remarkable, They have convinced every institutional and retail investor to just keep piling money into them. Like many big tech giants they are just a big growing pyramid scheme. As long as people keep dropping money into ETF's that cover the market Microsoft will always be liquid. At the same time it is completely stifling innovation and competition. People need to start being more discreet in how they invest their money as it's killing the system.
Riiiiight because people will just flock back to them for one or two games per year.
15+ years of bad performance is what they call irreparable in business. It is time for them to sell off the assets and get out of entertainment.
These declines are on the back of extra revenue received from releasing games like Forza horizon 5 on PlayStation. So I’m being sarcastic here when I said they should go back to exclusives. Killing off a revenue stream from Ps5 sales will only make things worse
Thanks to the slip-up of an artist working on the title, we now have more evidence that a new Injustice game is in the works.
Spiders: "We're going to cut straight to the chase so you're not left wondering: After a long period without clear answers, we have received confirmation that Spiders is being liquidated.
What does it mean? This means the company as a whole no longer exists. We'll cease our functions immediately. The planned DLC will release via Nacon, and then-- well, that's it.
We're sorry that it's come to this and would like to thank each and every one of you for your support over the years.
If you have any questions or run into issues with your games, please contact Nacon directly as we'll no longer be able to reply."
make sure you watch the video.
Though I'm not totally for the zune, the way they use it with this surface computer is very cool.
If the video doesn't work(it didn't with me), you can download it.
But i do hope you can use a stylus or something, because i don't want to put my fingerprints over something so expensive.
Clearly Microsoft engineers have watched enough futuristic movies to make our hearts desire such a device. I know this is going commercial first but I'm curious what sizes are the surface computers available in? Also what depth size are we looking at? Wouldn't it be cool to have a table that's like a Kitchen/Dinning room table size (4 by 6 feet) or even a coffee table that I can read CNN or MSNBC while my kids are working on a school project? Imaging multiple virtual keyboards popping up for the users to interact with one project. I can definitely see some positive things coming out of this. But I can see some negatives as well like the fact you have to lean over the table. That could become uncomfortable if you’re working for long periods of time (say 2 hours or more.)
That has to be the biggest upgrade in "user friendly" computing I think I've seen.
I believe someone posted about this tech by MS a month or two back. Search for it.
If you watch the Movie "The Island" and watch the extras alot of the tech in this movies as far high-tech consumer divices go; it was stated alot of those gadgits were not to far off in the near future and were real concepts on MS's drawing boards although the Xbox-(10, lol) in the movie is alittle out of reach the touch screen tables were already in the movie The Island". LOL