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Microsoft Surface Parody

Microsoft Surface Parody

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About this video

A 2007 parody mocking Microsoft's Surface touch table, made by SarcasticGamer.

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HN mostly drops it as a joke when Microsoft hardware or large touch tables come up.

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idea · 2007-11 · joke

> After that, it's just a matter of how/where you display the NMS screen. The most appropriate device would be Microsoft's Big Ass Table. ( [VIDEO] )

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codingdave · 2016-10 · joke

This concept seems to "re-surface" very couple years, and I just cannot get over the first time I saw it... well, saw the mockery of it, at least: [VIDEO]

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ojno · 2017-06 · joke

No, no, they were right the first time... "The future is here, and it's not an iPhone: it's a big-ass table." ;-) [VIDEO]

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DaiPlusPlus · 2024-05 · joke

Oblig: [VIDEO] ——- As an aside, when I was at MSFT in Building 40 in 2013 we had a Surface table in the lobby; it never worked as well as the demo videos made it look: the table-top wasn’t glass but had a rough rubberised protector layer on-top that ruined it, the built-in WPF-based demo apps that we played with were all somewhat janky: you’d get 12-15fps not 60fps, touch drag latency was also abysmal, and most of the demo apps’ rendered scenes didn’t use global lighting, so pinch-rotating two objects in different directions would just look bad. (Pre-teamroom) campus building lobbies were where once-cool hardware goes to die; another building at the other end of campus (where the Direct3D people were) had a widescreen rear-projection TV running Windows Media Center 2005 until well into 2015 IIRC.

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