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Just what everyone wants to do. Walk right up within arm's reach of a big screen tv, so they can smear fingerprints all over it and look at individual pixels.

Never mind having to step back to see the rest of the screen is displaying.

And, of course, standing there, cramping up your shoulders, neck and back to do it, for anything more than momentary use.

As for 'commercial uses', yeah, that's just what everyone who buys a jumbo wall display wants: anyone can walk up and change what it's displaying for EVERYONE ELSE, let alone having it down low, with bodies up-close to it, obscuring it. And of course, if people can reach it, people will vandalize it.

Let's see, buy one monstrously expensive 80" 'touch' big screen and put it down low, where it is ALWAYS obscured, or buy a 'regular' big screen, put it up high where ALL can see, and put some small, cheap kiosks for people to use, below it? Or hey, maybe one of those newfangled URLs for their own cell phones and tablets and other computers to visit a web site?

Evildave, on 25 May 2012 - 01:07 PM, said:

Just like the evil Microsoft hater to be not capable of thinking outside the box. Who says you have to actually touch the screen?
Hmmm! Kinect would allow you to manipulate everything without ever touching the screen at all. Also such a screen doesnt nee actual touching, you can place a touch panel in front of it and resists fingerprints, as your phone can as well.

Business usage...yes..consumer usage...hardly. Makes a nice party favor tho. And unless you room is filled with more people than shoudl be tjeir anyways, I doubt anyone would stand right next to an 80" screen.

You hate of EVERYTHING Microsoft is really really sad. I think you need some help.

oh yeah. so we're gonna run around on our feet to get work done while STANDING at our workstation. and we're gonna leave fingerprints and maybe even footprints (now that our screen is plenty big enough) all over our pretty screen. is this guy Okay?? yeah microsoft is taking it on the chin from all sides and now they come up with THIS.

QUADICON, on 25 May 2012 - 01:43 PM, said:

A bad idea is a bad idea. What's more pathetic is tirelessly defending a corporation like Microsoft from any perceived slight.

Do you have a poster of Steve Ballmer over your bed?

Gee, I can just see one of these in the kid's playroom. Certainly, not anywhere else, well maybe in an "adult video store."

Well, I don't see how many people would put the big, big screen display in a kid's room. Expensive, fragile, etc.

And all the grief I got as a kid for sitting too close to the TV. How it'll ruin my eyes.

THis isn't even new. It's called the Microsoft Surface and has been around for a few years now. Losing faith in PC World.

No, this is Ballmer's genius: Taking Microsoft Surface, which was over-priced and didn't catch on, but would be sort of a good idea, if it hadn't been done before, and flipping it up and sticking it to a wall, where it will be completely useless. Sink another $billion in R&D into that!

80 inches diagonal? Let's see: if the screen has a 9:16 aspect ratio, then it must measure approximately 39 1/8" x 69 1/4". Hey QUADICON, the article calls it a touchscreen so a not too unreasonable inference is that Ballmer touches it, OK?

MS is in for a huge shock....Win 8 will be worse than Vista as far as the public accepting it as an OS, especially if they're using Win 7 & if I ever start using it.... monitors will be 8'

that's gonna be hard to carry around !

Not if you're an out-of-touch-with-reality billionaire. Just hire a crew to haul it around and set it up wherever you go. Be sure to import laborers from overseas on H1B visas and pay them half what you would Americans who have to live with the cost to live in America.


Gates to congress: Microsoft needs more H1B Visas!
http://arstechnica.c...ore-h1-b-visas/

I don't like the idea of touching a screen and I hate it when people smear my non-touch devices just to point something they want to show.
Still I must admit lipophobic surfaces could bring a solution to this problem.
Many people just love to hate MS. I bet if Jobs was the one with that thing in his office he would have been praised and been called a "visionary".
One thing is sure though; like with tablet PC, Everyone at MS will sit on their asses while someone else turns their idea into something trendy and appealing.

Lipophobic surfaces only work to a degree.

There are sweaty hands, dirty hands, bloody hands (GAH! PAPER CUT!), sticky hands, booger fingers, etc.

In case you never heard, 'the public' (aka 'great unwashed') is not so great about washing their hands.

Not to mention a big touch device in a public place is a great way to transfer... organisms.

So it would have to be made mysophobic, too.

And proof against diamond rings.

And a surface that ink/paint doesn't adhere to.

But if they hurry up and patent it, they can sit on their asses, scratching their heads, wondering how it could possibly be made to work, and wait for somebody to make something similar and successful, then SUE them.