Dan Bricklin recently got a chance to check out Microsoft Surface. Sounds like he walked away quite interested although he’s concerned that Microsoft is going to miss the “gesture standards” boat. I’d love to see it up close too.
I totally agree with one thing he says:
“I also pushed Jeffrey to make individual units available to corporate and other developers to “play” with and explore the use of such systems in the specific space of interest to that developer. Microsoft could make units available at locations you go to, much as IBM, as I recall, has places to try out large systems. The more different people who experiment with their stuff now, the more likely successful full deployments will happen a few years from now.”
The Surface team blog has more on the event that the Surface device was demoed at here. Lots of pictures.