Microsoft Surface
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Every so often, a technology comes along that looks downright revolutionary, with the ability to affect everything we do. Sometimes, though, that technology doesn't make it out of the lab, or by the time it does, it seems less relevant somehow. That doesn't seem to be the case with Microsoft Surface, however. Keep reading to learn more about this new user interface that may soon be showing up everywhere.
Computer and technology trade shows are about coming out with the latest and greatest products of the time. Typically they pull out all the stops and get a product there in any condition, as long as it has a nice looking case to show off. Heck even sometimes that is all we see, a case of a concept device that the company might be working on. It reminds me of all those dummy phones at the cell phone companies that have a sticker on the screen and nothing on the inside.
Sometimes we get working demos of devices. They are functional devices that work, but usually have a few bugs, and the company just wants to show us what it's working on. Or maybe we'll see an update on one of those dummy devices, to show everyone that they really are making such a device. From here, the device is usually left as a conceptual device, one to prove a technology and scrapped, but usually incorporated into devices later down the road. Sometimes the device actually makes it to store shelves and becomes a hit.
When Microsoft showed the public the first glimpse of the Surface technology, I thought this would end up as a concept and not make it anywhere near public for quite some years. Usually software makes it all the way through concept to pubic because it doesn't take a heck of a lot to go from working model to beta to public release. The Surface is actual hardware along with software, so I thought that it wouldn't make it off the trade show floors.
It appears that I was wrong, and the Surface has a decent chance to make it to the general public. Surface has the technology to change everything from a corporate boardroom down to the dining room table. We will explore what Surface is, and what makes it so revolutionary.
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