Microsoft Readying Sphere-Shaped Surface

Microsoft’s touch-sensitive tabletop is about to get a spherical makeover. Microsoft officials have been talking up the company’s plans to introduce more consumer-focused form factors of its Surface multi-touch tabletop. They’ve said future iterations of Microsoft’s Surface multi-touch technology will be available as part of next-generation PCs, cellphones, desks, kitchen counters and even walls in consumers’ homes over the next five to 10 years.

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  • http://macbeach.blogspot.com Mac Beach

    Concave or convex?

    I need to know if my drink will be tipping over onto the floor, or into the center of the table (for easy clean-up!).

    What will those geniuses innovate next?!

  • Rod Bevi

    Gee… “Blogger, All About Microsoft”… What a fun job you have, Mary Jo!!!!!

    FYI: Vaporware: A Microsoft classic, dating back to at least the early-‘90s era of Microserfs (likely before), and now escaped into the world at large. Software that was conceived (and probably promoted and advertised) but never came to fruition; by extension, a foolish or fanciful conceit.

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