Robert Ballantyne's Profile

There is no news here. When Jeff Han demonstrated this kind of technology at the Ted Talks in the winter of '06 it was truly amazing. But he had a big screen, and he looked comfortable using it. All that MS has demonstrated is that they can go and buy someone else's stuff, package it in an awkward looking box, and say that sometime in the future they might do something with this idea. Can MS really come up with something new? After years of watching Apple market the iPod, look at how well MS implemented the Zune. When Apple showed folks the iPhone, you saw the product that you'll be able to buy later this month. Here is what the technology looked like 1-1/2 years ago. http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/view/id/65 Do we need MS to invent the marketing term, "surface?" That is about as useful to our language as their use of "squirt." I don't see that anything about this is a challenge to Apple's Multi-touch.