Microsoft have just released to the public their ground-breaking new interface paradigm. Can you tell I’m less than impressed ?

What’s the point in a $5-$10k hunk of rear-projected electronics and coffee table that twitters at you to get a refill, pay the bill…and don’t think for one second that the marketeers aren’t already salivating over new and insidious ways to pervade your social space with further product placement.

Imagine putting your G&T down on ‘Surface’…it knows it’s a G&T and from your earlier payment for the first round, has already hooked your demographics into it’s knowlegebase about you…next there might be info on the last series of amazon books you bought, what your eBay watchlist’s doing or “don’t you think that glass needs a refill sir ?” …argh argh. It’s a table, I just want to put things on it and for them to be there when I go back.

Some great comments on the ElReg article on ‘Surface’