Video: Hands-on test of Microsoft Surface

Ian Lamont — Wed, 13 Aug 2008 19:01:29 -0400

Want to know how Microsoft Surface really works? The Industry Standard had a chance to try out one of the touchscreen tables at the Sheraton Hotel near San Francisco's international airport, and prepared the following video. While there were only a handful of applications, and the device that we tried out didn't match the functionality shown in the Microsoft demos last year, the interface is easy to learn and allows users to manipulate objects on the screen very easily. For a close-up of the interface (and louder audio), scroll to about 2:30.

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