Microsoft Takes A Few Minutes To Laud The New Surface

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Thursday, June 30th, 2011

It’s a bit of a random time for a video like this, seeing as the announcement was back at CES and we had a nice, thorough hands-on with the new SUR40 Surface then, but hey. Maybe you missed it. If you don’t mind a little redundancy (and of course, the ever-present soft techno), this is a nice way to catch up on Microsoft’s Surface project.


I won’t lie, I was hoping for a little more substantial information about the PixelSense sensor array, maybe what they’re doing with it (like maybe Windows 8, hello), some cool stuff it does, etc. Oh well. Here’s our hands-on, by the way:

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