If they were truly leading, they would apply the Metro UI to a 30-inch touchable drafting table, tilted at 45 degrees (see the original Jeff Han multitouch demos).
Portable/casual computing has already been reinvented; it's time to do the same to the high-end professional workstation.
But they're hardly making that environment their flagship; instead, they're making a (pretty decent) iPad clone with a better keyboard and a stand. They should be focusing on the environment where both the iPad and the PC underperform (relative to the possibility space): knowledge work and the enterprise. Microsoft needs to leapfrog, not catch up.
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If they were truly leading, they would apply the Metro UI to a 30-inch touchable drafting table, tilted at 45 degrees (see the original Jeff Han multitouch demos).
Portable/casual computing has already been reinvented; it's time to do the same to the high-end professional workstation.
You can already do that with a mount. Windows 8 is display size agnostic.
Example of a 80inch TV with a touchscreen running Windows 8
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lUFv4C4fVzE&feature=playe...
But they're hardly making that environment their flagship; instead, they're making a (pretty decent) iPad clone with a better keyboard and a stand. They should be focusing on the environment where both the iPad and the PC underperform (relative to the possibility space): knowledge work and the enterprise. Microsoft needs to leapfrog, not catch up.