Microsoft Brings the Future to Colleges
Posted on October 7, 2008
Filed Under Culture, Techno-file | By Nikki Martinez
Costs of everything from bean bags to book bags are skyrocketing. So where to look if you want to distract yourself from the downward-spiraling economy? The future, of course! Craig Mundie, Microsoft’s new chief long-term strategist, kicked off his five college tour yesterday at Princeton University. Mundie tells The Daily Princetonian the goal of these presentations is to integrate high tech developments into the university setting as well as “to create a more natural interaction between man and machine” to try “to extend the benefits of these technologies to a much greater part of the world’s population.”
Among the new products was a “surface computer,” a coffee table-sized monitor with a touch screen surface that, when multiple laptops are placed on top of it, links them together so the information on each computer is displayed on the surface monitor. But not everyone’s impressed with Microsoft’s fancy new offerings. Observes one Princeton student, “It looks kind of like a big iPhone to me.” Burn.
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