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In reading this I was curious as to why your timeline struck a note of discord with my memory banks. In particular, the fact that the linear ordering placed on
by Dn_Ab 15y ago
In reading this I was curious as to why your timeline struck a note of discord with my memory banks. In particular, the fact that the linear ordering placed on my temporal estimates of when I became aware of the existence of each object as a notion was swapped with the implicated ordering you gave!
So I checked wikipedia myself and the history revealed that I was in fact not mistaken, wikipedia agreed with my dismal estimation of the past i call memory. the surface reached public awareness before the iphone =)
Over the next year, Microsoft built more than 85 early prototypes for Surface. The final hardware design was completed in 2005.
I suppose the lesson here is that a novel way of interfacing with something is not in and of itself sufficient without something meaningful as the product of this new interaction.
- Someone 15y agoI am not claiming your memory is false (and I know my memory is 100% built on a Wikipedia lookup I did today), but I think that Wikipedia reference is mostly built on http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/presskits/surfacecomputing/docs/SurfaceHistoryBG.doc http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/presskits/surfacecomputin.... That has a 2007 publication date. I also cannot find a link predating 2007 mentioning Microsoft Surface or its earlier name Microsoft Tabletop. Because of that, I am not convinced that Microsoft Surface "reached public awareness before the iPhone". So, please educate me: where/when/how did that happen?
- steve8918 15y agoHere is an early prototype back in 2006. http://channel9.msdn.com/blogs/laurafoy/a-peek-inside-microsoft-research-reveals-tom-cruises-technology-today http://channel9.msdn.com/blogs/laurafoy/a-peek-inside-micros...