Microsoft's Surface Computing

Microsoft Surface represents a fundamental change in the way we interact with digital content.
With Surface, we can actually grab data with our hands, and move information between objects with natural gestures and touch.
Surface features a 30-inch tabletop display whose unique abilities allow for several people to work independently or simultaneously. All without using mouse or a keyboard.

Microsoft has been developing the first completely new computing platform since the PC — a project that was given the internal code name Milan. This past March, when the project was still operating on the down low.

The product behind the Milan project is called the Microsoft Surface, and the company's unofficial Surface showman is Jeff Gattis.

Till now one of consumer pain points is the frustrating mess of cables, drivers and protocols that people must use to link their peripheral devices to their personal computers. Surface computer has no cables or external USB ports for plugging in peripherals. For that matter, it has no keyboard, no mouse, no trackball — no obvious point of interaction except its screen.

We can take a digital camera and placed it on the Surface. Instantly, digital pictures will be spilled out onto the tabletop. We can touch and drag each picture, it followed our fingers around the screen.

Using two fingers, we can pull the corners of a photo and stretched it to a new size. Then, we can put a cellphone on the surface and drag several photos to it — just like that, the pictures will be uploaded to the phone. One can drag and drop virtual