Comments on: Microsoft Surface hands on review and gallery

By: UIHero

UIHero — Mon, 08 Sep 2008 19:25:05 +0000

IdentityMine, one of the top Microsoft Surface shops (the creator of the Winebar and Snowboard applications demonstrated by Bill Gates at CES 2008) has released videos demonstrating PhysicsPanel – a library for creating physics-enabled applications for Surface (as well as anything else .NET 3.0 runs on like XP, Vista and Windows Mobile). It’s an awesome first look under the hood of Surface development.

http://uihero.wordpress.com/2008/09/08/wpf-and-surface-physics-code-video/

By: ray19

ray19 — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 10:31:41 +0000

Your gallery doesn’t work for me either. (Firefox3 and IE7)– click on an image and it just refreshes the page.

By: funrun

funrun — Mon, 23 Jun 2008 16:34:44 +0000

Hi guys,
Your gallery does not work for me (Safari @ MacOS X 10.5).

By: JJ

JJ — Sat, 21 Jun 2008 15:07:46 +0000

they didn’t tell you what they had in the guts of the thing because they secretly have a mac running OS XX inside. Duh BG! Love the posts. Keep em coming!

By: BrownOak

BrownOak — Fri, 20 Jun 2008 17:39:27 +0000

Is there tactile feedback/haptics on this?

By: H.N.I.C.

H.N.I.C. — Fri, 20 Jun 2008 10:35:17 +0000

Sooo…

i was just wondering,…

if there are any rumors floating around…

about an Apple PC or maybe even a notebook…

that would have similar capability?

just wondering.

Holla if you hear something.

By: DMann

DMann — Fri, 20 Jun 2008 08:55:15 +0000

$10,000 for all the internal motors, arms, sensors, cameras, and lenses? Not to mention it weighs more than a Ford Escort. If you’ve seen the Multi-Touch by Jeff Han, which is by far much better implemented and is capable of working on a wall mounted LCD, without the primitive mechanical moving parts, (prone to failure) you would realize that this beast is obsolete before it’s debut. The iPhone 3G can rotate 3D images of CT Scans, 3D x-ray right in the palm of your hand, with all the clarity, detail, and do most of what this can without the ball and chain of a behemoth monstrosity. After playing with one, I wondered, who would spend the additional funds to purchase cameras and phones which could interact with this thing? Have all of your private photos spill out for the world to see – have the glass surface crack in a restaurant when crashing your stein down after a toast. Highly inefficient, poorly implemented, and a little too oversized, overpriced, and vulnerable to be practical.

By: Jeff B.

Jeff B. — Fri, 20 Jun 2008 06:09:25 +0000

BG, I’m going to totally agree with you. This defines its own genre and has so much potential that Microsoft has to just release it to the public, throw XP on it (yea I know it’s basically a dead OS as of a few months from now), and let people develop and do what we do best.(…steal them)

By: Sith_Apprentice

Sith_Apprentice — Fri, 20 Jun 2008 04:46:09 +0000

Can you imagine the medical applications for this? an MRI that outputs directly to this, or a CT scan, 3D xray, etc. Doctors being able to rotate the image in 3D and see all sides as they would just if they were holding it.

This is just one field, countless other applications in every other field imaginable.

By: Kevin Chavez

Kevin Chavez — Fri, 20 Jun 2008 03:56:41 +0000

Anyhow… Back on Topic. This device is simply stunning. I had the chance to play with one in WA and I’ve got to tell you it was incredibly impressive. We are in for a treat when we get them in our homes.

By: Dtest54

Dtest54 — Fri, 20 Jun 2008 01:55:38 +0000

mrp way to go too far, they never bailed anyone out. They invested – same as millions of other groups.

MS has been struggling since they started on Vista/Longhorn. They have a huge task every time they redo the OS but thats their choice.

By: mrp

mrp — Fri, 20 Jun 2008 01:44:35 +0000

@martin
great you’ve learned to use the “*” key.

This is not a microsoft vs apple debate. The fact is Microsoft is a lot bigger than apple and has built that client base for many reasons which you may, or may not understand.

Making fundemental changes to an OS effects the client base. If MS did that they wouldn’t be as attractive to their customers.

Don’t forget who bank rolled apple a few years ago to keep them from going under.

Not to mention, Vista, XP, W2K, NT 4.0 have gotten progessively more stable. You may not like the fact that vista uses twice the memory of XP and all for bells and whistles, and I would agree with you, but from a functionallity point of view it does what an OS should.

By: birdfeather

birdfeather — Fri, 20 Jun 2008 00:37:46 +0000

“That’s crap and such a f*ing copout. Apple has one of the most vocal fan bases around but they’ve got NO problem stripping software compatibility in favor of performance and forward progress.”

They also only have 8% marketshare and there’s some very good reasons…

By: Lets Go Mets!

Lets Go Mets! — Fri, 20 Jun 2008 00:07:42 +0000

Now it’s back to normal… WTF…

By: Lets Go Mets!

Lets Go Mets! — Fri, 20 Jun 2008 00:07:03 +0000

Why is the home page on “Mobile” format? And when I click to exit from it, the page just reloads to the Mobile format once more… Is it because I’m using Firefox 3?

By: Martin

Martin — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 22:52:18 +0000

@mrp

That’s crap and such a f*ing copout. Apple has one of the most vocal fan bases around but they’ve got NO problem stripping software compatibility in favor of performance and forward progress. If they have to they use emulation or build in unique ways to make stuff work (like Rosetta). But I hate hearing that stupid ass excuse.

By: mrp

mrp — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 22:33:55 +0000

@specced

Programmers have this old saying;
Do you know how god created the world in seven days ?

He didn’t have an installed base.

By: specced

specced — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 21:46:18 +0000

I don’t get it. The same company responsible for Vista and Windows Mobile is also responsible for this?! They can’t make a decent OS (a product they have decades of experience with) and yet can make this thing, which actually seems to be good?!

At least we know what all of their good engineers, programmers, and designers were working on while Vista was being hacked together.

Oh, and I need a new coffee table. Can I have one of these? I could see some mad boardgame action going down…

By: The Boy Genius

The Boy Genius — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 21:34:24 +0000

You do realize the gallery works fine, right?

By: TrueDis

TrueDis — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 20:40:06 +0000

Fix the gallery!