Microsoft Surface Service Pack 1 was released today. The really important news is -

Surface Team will be tasked with developing a set of common gestures for multi-touch that will be used across Surface, Windows 7, and Windows Mobile.

Hopefully this means some of Surface’s cool applications make their way to Windows 7.

Here’s a video of the Surface SP1 –

The video does a good (not great) job of focusing on the Surface and not on the interviewer. Something I’m beginning to notice more and more is gadget videos where you see the gadget only 50% of the time.

I absolutely love the little circle type menu used to find related photos etc.

They’re also made drag and drop APIs (if i heard the video discussion right) easier. Which is great as it’ll lead to more and cooler applications.

Why do I care about Surface?

1. Its really, really cool.  
2. All the improvements and applications will sooner or later (hopefully sooner) show up in Windows 7.
3. It advances human computer interaction in a very meaningful way – not the least of which is applications that become multi-user, and not in the ‘connect two computers together’ way.

Everyone who’s excited about communicating with other devices and other people should be excited about being able to interact with other users on the same screen.

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