Comments on: Microsoft’s New Touch Screen Coffee Table

By: Matthew Thomas

Matthew Thomas — Tue, 12 Jun 2007 21:06:54 +0000

I have to hand it to them. I do genuinely like the look of this. Microsoft has earned it’s reputation, design-wise, and ‘Microsoft Works’ has always been my favourite oxymoron, but this is looking great! Such a simple idea, that, so far, seems to have been done really well.

I truly hope that this turns out to be as amazing as it looks. I could definately see this in bars and resteraunts all over the place. If they manage to pull off the interface properly, this could be a winner.

By: Steve

Steve — Fri, 08 Jun 2007 16:05:51 +0000

Actually if you do a search on Youtube there are plenty of live demos given to journalists that would be nigh on impossible to fake. M$ have been working on this since 2001 too so they’ve had a fair bit of time to get them working. They’ll also be in stores/hotels in the US (T-Mobile, Harrahs, Sheraton) by the end of the year.

I kinda think you should give credit where credit’s due, this product looks fantastic and the possibilities that it could offer a designer are huge. It shouldn’t be slammed just because it’s Microsoft.

By: Beverley winters

Beverley winters — Wed, 06 Jun 2007 20:22:52 +0000

aha.
I love how the design world never has much to say about microsoft.

By: Matt Davies

Matt Davies — Mon, 04 Jun 2007 09:40:39 +0000

The video is very much staged, I agree. We’ll have to wait and see what happens when its actually in the shops. I think MS are trying to look “cool” as apple ambitions seem to threaten MS’s top end market share…

By: Liam

Liam — Mon, 04 Jun 2007 04:54:28 +0000

I HIGHLY doubt that those are actual functioning software programs instead of just FMV sequences. I don’t doubt that the technology exists, but I think it’s been manipulated a bit for this vid.