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Microsoft Surface Parody

Doc Adams
Comedy
YouTube
Cited on HN 4 times, 2007–2024, never outright recommended score 0
Years with an HN recommendation, 2007–2026

HN mostly drops it as a joke when Microsoft hardware or large touch tables come up.

A 2007 parody mocking Microsoft's Surface touch table, made by SarcasticGamer.

4 jokes · Comedy · news from the time

4 Hacker News comments

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@idea Nov 2007 Makes a joke
on HN thread xkcd - Network
> After that, it's just a matter of how/where you display the NMS screen. The most appropriate device would be Microsoft's Big Ass Table. ( [this video] )
@codingdave Oct 2016 Makes a joke
on HN thread Microsoft Surface Studio
This concept seems to "re-surface" very couple years, and I just cannot get over the first time I saw it... well, saw the mockery of it, at least: [this video]
@ojno Jun 2017 Makes a joke
on HN thread iPad Pro
No, no, they were right the first time... "The future is here, and it's not an iPhone: it's a big-ass table." ;-) [this video]
@DaiPlusPlus May 2024 Makes a joke
on HN thread Introducing Copilot+ PCs
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Oblig: [this video] ——- As an aside, when I was at MSFT in Building 40 in 2013 we had a Surface table in the lobby; it never worked as well as the demo videos made it look: the table-top wasn’t glass but had a rough rubberised protector layer on-top that ruined it, the built-in WPF-based demo apps that we played with were all somewhat janky: you’d get 12-15fps not 60fps, touch drag latency was also abysmal, and most of the demo apps’ rendered scenes didn’t use global lighting, so pinch-rotating two objects in different directions would just look bad. (Pre-teamroom) campus building lobbies were where once-cool hardware goes to die; another building at the other end of campus (where the Direct3D people were) had a widescreen rear-projection TV running Windows Media Center 2005 until well into 2015 IIRC.

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