David Pogue fasst den Hype rund um Microsofts Surface Computer schön zusammen:

This new „surface computer,” as Microsoft calls it, has a multi-touch screen. You can use two fingers or even more – for example, you can drag two corners of a photograph outward to zoom in on it.
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Microsoft’s press materials and Web site coyly ignore the existence of earlier pioneers; when pressed, it insists that its surface computer was developed well before Jeff Han *or* Apple came along.
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How cool is all of this? Very. Unfortunately, at this point, it’s the Microsoft version of a concept car; you can ogle it, but you can’t have it. These stunts require concept cameras, concept cellphones and concept music players that have been rigged to interact with the surface computer.
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Let’s make one thing clear: multi-touch computing does not mean the end of the keyboard and mouse.
As the new world of multi-touch-screen computing dawns, you’ll see a lot of demos involving photo stretching and Web surfing demos. But you will *never* see word processors, e-mail programs, spreadsheets, databases or accounting programs.
That’s because touch-screen computers are terrible for these mainstream computing tasks. Typing of any kind, in fact, is a nightmare when you can’t feel the keys. It’s inaccurate, slow and unsatisfying.
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But if this is truly the future of computing, Microsoft will first have to overcome the mother of all chicken-and-egg conundrums. Surface computers won’t go mainstream until we all have phones, cameras and music players that work with them – and nobody will manufacture those gadgets until there’s a critical mass of surface computers.

Tagged as: , hardware, lost+found, microsoft | Author: Martin Leyrer
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