It's one thing to see one of these things on YouTube, it's another thing entirely to see one running in front of you. This morning, I went over to Building 33 to see a demonstration of a Surface computer. Wow. It's definitely real, and the possibilities are quite remarkable.
The core OS is Vista, with WPF as the rendering engine. It really is quite remarkable how far managed code has come. It would be a lot of fun to imagine what a Ruby-based shell programming environment for a surface computer would look like ...
From the it's a really small world department, I discovered that the dev manager for Surface is the same dev manager that brought me in to Visio back in 1998(?) to teach a COM class.
