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RE: Microsoft Surface, the new computers?
MS Surface is more like a research project, looking for new possible things and technology.
As such, I think this is another attempt to replace the paper desktop. Long time ago MS already wanted to do that, and this evolved in Windows, etc. It was then said that paper would soon dissapear.
This is kind of the same thing. I think we are very very far from such things as this*. Though, it will trigger the development of new stuff (eg: the tablet PC is also one of those things which resulted from this kind of research in the past).
For example, in MS Surface they show big flat screens which replace your physical papers and your entire desktop. This is still very far from realistic in every household. Though, what will be seen more and more are advanced touch screens with GUIs which are operated by hand gestures. So you have the GUI of what is shown with MS Surface but on 'old' screens, replacing the mouse more and more.
(*huge tablets like shown in the movies in each household to do everyday stuff.)
As for connecting everything, that would be more realistic I think. Already a hell of a lot of things are already connected to eachother (hence why identity theft is such a big issue in this era) and it will only increase.
This post was edited on 05-31-2007 at 07:28 PM by CookieRevised.
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