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January 2008 - Posts

Surface Grand Piano
Rob and Thomas think one cool use of Surface would a piano app. I agree :) Believe it or not, this concept is actually one of the first tech samples we shipped to partners in early drops of the Surface SDK. We chose this because 1) it's a good example Read More...
Unmediated and Free @ CES '08
According to the local Las Vegas weather channel, the Surface Booth @ CES reached "unseasonably high temperatures for January." Could the fact that we had oodles of Surface newbies non-stop all three days have had anything to do with that? I had the pleasure Read More...
Our Last Day at CES
So we’re in the home stretch at CES. Today is the last day!!! As draining as this show is, as crazy as the planning has been, as stressful as it was to watch BillG demo Surface (fingers crossed so tight that it performed well-IT DID!) in his last keynote…it Read More...
Tuesday at CES
Tuesday was another great day for the Surface team n the Microsoft booth at CES. Because of the reworked the flow of the booth overnight to better accomodate the crowds it felt less packed and we seemed to have more room to breath. Nonetheless it was Read More...
Surface Debuts at CES
Surface had its CES coming out party last night, as Bill Gates showed off one of our new demo applications (a retail product customization scenario) in his final keynote to the industry. History-making stuff and I'm glad Surface could be a part of it. Read More...
How creating Surface apps is different, part 2
How creating Surface apps is different, part 2 Continuing the list from my previous post Multiple simultaneous users The Surface is all about multiple simultaneous users interacting with each other and the Surface. The typical PC is designed for a single Read More...
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