Immediately after I find out about Palm’s triumphant new Foleo I find out about Microsoft’s scatological new “Surface” tabletop PC. Woot, I think not. At US$5,000-10,000 each, these monstrosities will inhabit hotel lobbies and mobile phone dealers and allow you to drag crap around on their 30″ touch screens. You can even put stuff on the top and it will scan a barcode it can find.

This is nothing more than a standard Windows PC with a large touch screen and some flashy software. I can go to The Bridge in Westchester and do the same thing with my feet in the theater’s lobby. Exciting! This is just another stupid project from Redmond that gets traction because they don’t know what to do with all that money they have.

Microsoft even said that the price tag would come down in a few years to make it an attractive purchase option for consumers. Ha! Is there such a thing as collective senility?

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