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Surface has it's uses
Talkback Bill Gates gave an excellent demonstration of a practical application for a surface table at CES. It was used as the kitchen work surface. With surface being so versatile it doesn't need to have one use.
[October 9, 2007, 9:35]
Scratching the Surface
Leader This week, the company unveiled its latest foray into the hardware world, in the shape of the tabletop PC — codenamed "Milan", but officially known as "Surface". So where does Surface rate on the Axis of Awesome?
[May 31, 2007, 17:52]
Microsoft demos Surface apps
News CNET News.com's Ina Fried gets a demo from the software maker showing how Surface applications interact with objects and other programs.
[January 11, 2008, 10:27]
Microsoft's Surface expands to 12 new markets
News Microsoft is looking to keep the smile on its Surface computer, as it brings the touchscreen PC to the UK and 11 new overseas markets. The software giant on Monday announced that the Surface computer, which responds to touch and hand gestures, will...
[March 3, 2009, 9:46]
Flat future for Microsoft's Surface?
News Whether you think it's just another Microsoft gimmick doomed to go the way of the Smart Display and other failed hardware ideas, or a genuinely interesting attempt at innovation from a company seeking to reinvent itself, Milan, or Surface as it's...
[June 6, 2007, 11:13]
Microsoft unveils 'Milan' surface computer
News While consumers will be able to touch it later this year, most won't be able to buy a surface computer any time soon. The Microsoft tabletop PC, called "Surface", for which Microsoft has created both the hardware and software, offers shades of the...
[May 30, 2007, 10:52]
Microsoft Surface still beyond developers' reach
News On Thursday, Microsoft is planning to show its partners the Surface computer that it introduced in May. But its partners will have to wait for a chance to do more than look at the tabletop computer. Allison Watson, the head of Microsoft's partner...
[July 12, 2007, 16:22]
Mining Text for Golden Service - What Value Glimmers Below the Surface?
White Papers Drawn from numerous departments and functions - sales, service, production, engineering and purchasing, etc.text-based data can often represent a perplexing dilemma: One accumulate a large volume of textual information and may recognize that...
[June 2, 2009, 1:18]
Microsoft's Surface: A deeper look
News This table-like device is Microsoft's Surface computer, which the company has been showing off in London. It uses a 30-inch screen, several cameras, a Vista PC and a projector to create an interactive, touch-sensitive environment that reacts to...
[October 3, 2007, 16:05]
FEM Study of Nano-Structured Surface-Relief Optical Data Storage
White Papers It begins the study with surface relief structures. The university studies the ability of sub-resolution optical structures to store data. Because it is probing features whose sizes are much smaller than the wavelength of the readout light...
[February 4, 2009, 23:00]
Microsoft's Surface facing a rocky road to market
News Although Microsoft is still getting plenty of "oohs" and "aahs" when it demos its Surface computer, the company is finding the task of bringing the tabletop computer to market a little rougher than it anticipated.
[November 9, 2007, 7:20]
Microsoft to offer Surface developer tools
News The long-awaited software developer kit for the Surface tabletop computer will be made available to those attending Microsoft's Professional Developer Conference at the end of the month. Microsoft made that pledge on its PDC website, as part of a...
[October 7, 2008, 9:20]
Calculation of Body Surface Area
Downloads In physiology and medicine, the Body Surface Area (BSA) is the measured or calculated surface of a human body. BSAcalc is the freeware program for the calculation of the Surface Area of the Body. For many clinical purposes BSA is a better indicator...
[February 21, 2009, 6:00]
Microsoft Surface price tag steeper than anticipated
News Microsoft will give those at next week's Professional Developer Conference a chance to do more than just write software for the Surface. However, even commercial customers are paying $12,500 for the Surface.
[October 24, 2008, 11:03]
Surface computing?
Talkback I fail to see the practicality of this device. Touch screens have a tendency to become blurred with oil from the fingers after a few hours of use. What if someone drools on it, or spills a cup of coffee?
[August 9, 2007, 14:08]
New Windows security issues surface
Talkback Security has always been the case with Windows; personnally, flaws have always been repaired with Service Pack successfully. I could go "ma petite affaire". And surfing has always been good! Spyware has attacked me to my weakness : my credit card...
[February 8, 2006, 20:21]
Microsoft: Why Surface is right for the enterprise
Video The tabletop technology, now available for purchase in the UK, has applications for business, Microsoft told ZDNet UK at CeBIT 2009.
[March 6, 2009, 10:58]
More ILOVEYOU variants surface
News VBS/Loveletter.a Alias: "Love Bug" Subject: ILOVEYOU Body: kindly check the attached LOVELETTER coming from me. Attachment: LOVE-LETTER-FOR-YOU.TXT.vbs Notes: Also known as I-Worm.Loveletter, IRC/Loveletter, Loveletter, Troj/LoveLet-A, VBS...
[May 10, 2000, 8:41]
Surface computing looks good
Talkback Personally, the biggest change I see here is the HCI (human computer interface). While I'm sure you can still have access to a keyboard, the fact that you can do so much without one will probably be the biggest news.
[June 3, 2007, 14:58]
New Windows security issues surface
News Microsoft on Tuesday warned of two security issues that could put some Windows users at risk of attack and said it is investigating a third possible vulnerability. One security problem is reminiscent of the recent high-profile security woes that...
[February 8, 2006, 8:35]
