Would you pay $1,500 for your very own Microsoft Surface?

Microsoft has more than once hinted that it is interested in releasing the Microsoft Surface to the general public, assuming that it can cut the price down significantly enough. We haven't heard many details about what Redmond has been up to on this front, but now some intriguing ones have surfaced (pardon the pun). Microsoft recently sent out a marketing survey for a horizontal multitouch computing device codenamed Oahu (which appropriately translates to "The Gathering Place"). Oahu is likely to be consumer version of the Microsoft Surface, and Microsoft is currently estimating that such a device would set a family back $1,500.

According to the survey's description of Oahu, it really is a Microsoft Surface: more than one person can interact with it at the same time, touching icons open up programs, games, or music, fingertips are used to expand and shrink objects on the screen, an on-screen keyboard can be used to input information, it communicates wirelessly with other devices (such as digital cameras, cell phones, and MP3 players), and there is no wait time to start it up. The survey also notes that Oahu can come as a freestanding table, placed into a piece of furniture, or built into a countertop. Microsoft also makes a point to emphasize that the device is in no way portable and that the size allows four people to sit around it "comfortably."

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[Scotteq]

It would have to be impervious to food/liquids...


and Frat Parties.



< runs off to write "Quarters: 2010" and "Virtual Beer~Pong: Girls Gone Wild Edition" >


< Calls Offshore Bank to tell them to Prepare for the incoming Tidal Wave of cash >

 

[pooch]

No I wouldn't

 

[rasmasyean]

It would have to be impervious to food/liquids...


and Frat Parties.



< runs off to write "Quarters: 2010" and "Virtual Beer~Pong: Girls Gone Wild Edition" >


< Calls Offshore Bank to tell them to Prepare for the incoming Tidal Wave of cash >

Have you seen one? You can hit that with a chair and it will prolly just scratch the surface. I'm so punny!

 

[soylomass]

Never! with that money i can buy an iphone, and a 4870x2 xD

 

[Everlong]

If I had the money, I would. I went to a University couple of months ago and was a Microsoft guy there talking about surface and all the different uses like ordering food and you can do it on the table like the customer just drags their credit card on to the payment area and enters the details there.

Needless to say, I questioned about this opening more security flaws with credit card fraud and didn't manage to get a straight answer.

 

[rasmasyean]

If I had the money, I would. I went to a University couple of months ago and was a Microsoft guy there talking about surface and all the different uses like ordering food and you can do it on the table like the customer just drags their credit card on to the payment area and enters the details there.

Needless to say, I questioned about this opening more security flaws with credit card fraud and didn't manage to get a straight answer.

What's the difference between that in the new proximity credit card readers? Most new cards have a little microchip in them. It's a square impression you can see at an angle. Check it. I mean the cashier is supposed to check your photo, but at minimum wage, most ppl don't give a crap. Or they just look at it but don't really check.

I mean if you want to get really crazy, you can have a fingerprint reader in the future, but then most ppl will oppose "privacy violation" by storing biometric data online. People are just afraid of change pretty much sums it up.

Anyway, that MS rep was prolly just a sales person. The people who work on issues like that don't usually spare the time for the field like that. All you need for one of those jobs is to be decent looking and be articulate.

 

[rasmasyean]

Casinos are liking this product.
They are trying to get it to run gambling games!

Casino Puts Microsoft Surface to Work (and Play) - PC World

 

[Cristina25]

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