Microsoft gears up to mass produce large-screen touch displays

Re:Microsoft gears up to mass produce large-screen touch dis... by userbinator on Wednesday September 03, 2014 @11:47PM (#8266672)

I don't see large touchscreens being suited for anything other than whiteboard replacements and maybe exercise games - the amount of effort needed to interact with one that's much larger than a typical tablet (~12") becomes tiring quite quickly. In comparison, traversing a large screen with a mouse requires not much more than a small wrist movement.

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Re:Microsoft gears up to mass produce large-screen touch dis... by seanmcdirmid on Thursday September 04, 2014 @12:10AM (#8266733)

Tables only made sense if they were used collaboratively, which is why I think that is why early Classic Surface focused on that.

We have tables you can write on with a marker, I don't see why, if cheap enough, adding a digital layer would be unwelcome (but not yet, of course).

Using a mouse with a very large screen is a recipe for serious neck strain. Sure, you can move the cursor quickly, but your head still has to track it. I know, I've tried!

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Re:Microsoft gears up to mass produce large-screen touch dis... by snogglethorpe on Thursday September 04, 2014 @04:48AM (#8267262)

It's not going to make make much of a dent in the whiteboard market either, until the price comes down a couple orders of magnitude...

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