While it is likely that Microsoft’s innovative touch-screen tabletop PC system ‘Surface’ is still some years from launch in the widespread consumer integration sense of the word, the Redmond-based software giant has said it is taking definite steps to speed up the process.
Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer comments that consumers could well see the full release of Surface before the initial estimate of 2012. Credit: Microsoft.
Specifically, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer has this week outlined that the company is responding proactively to positive customer feedback insofar as it hopes to reduce the time lapse between releasing Surface to business customers and unveiling it for full commercial use via retail outlets.
When Microsoft first whipped the covers off Surface in the spring of 2007, it explained that the system’s integration plan included a widespread consumer release at some point in the future, but advised that such a move might not come into play until around 2012.
As things stand with Surface, Microsoft is presently working on bringing the new tabletop PC system to customers tied into the restaurant, hotel, casino and retail businesses.
The technology was due to be shipped out to early adopters before the close of 2007, but Microsoft now hopes to have fully-functioning units in place with business customers by the spring.
Surface will allow trade businesses to supply customers with easy access to integrated touch-screen services, which will include gathering related information on products placed onto the flat screen, paying for goods by placing a credit card down, selecting desired on-screen photographs for printing, surfing the Web and dispatching e-mail, or even something as extravagant as booking a holiday while in a restaurant after quickly researching the origins of a meal or drink.
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