Microsoft Surface is the handy Multitouch unit that everyone has come to know and love and in many ways has really started to overshadow the Apple iPhone because of the extreme relevance that the Surface has to the future of desktop computing that the iPhone simply can not match up to. But now, Microsoft has decided to take things even further and they are looking at making changes to the Surface in order to bring forth a horde of different products in the near future. According to a source from Microsoft, the first thing that the company has planned is to change the shape of the computer from something that occupies a Surface to more traditional shapes like a monitor so that it can be
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The interesting thing about Multitouch technology is how quickly it has escalated to the status of being mainstream. While Multitouch as an overall technology is still far too expensive to be considered a mainstream product, at the same time the advancements that companies like Microsoft have made in Multitouch technology have been extremely impressive when the short time frame of their work is taken into account. When Multitouch was demoed in 2006 by Jeff Han, everyone was extremely impressed with the idea of touch screen technology in its truest form and indeed at that point it felt as if the high tech interface from the movie Minority Report had been recreated in real life. At that time however, Multitouch was still a curiosity. It was