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The initial demonstrations showed the movement of objects as if they were pieces of paper being re-ordered on a regular desk. The ability to re-order entire processes, for example the defining of a multi-city itinerary, or the development of an entirely new manufacturing center could be possible if more sophisticated software was created that could take advantage of the Surface core technologies. Process engineering would also significantly benefit as interactive flows of fluid-based assets including oil, natural gas and other process-related goods could be tracked in real-time.
Globalization and The Surface
One of the most provocative applications of the Surface, which has been shown by Steve Ballmer at The All Things Digital Conference sponsored by the Wall Street Journal, is to create collaborative workspaces where items, designs, drawings, and even software code can be shared over linked Surface workspaces. Instead of having to e-mail source code, designs, drawings or other items critical to the development of a project, the Surface technology would make it possible to interactively and in real time share these items. The design sessions would be truly virtual but not constrained by bandwidth limitations, time zones or even dependencies on e-mail systems (Selker, 2008). While Microsoft is working to create references accounts at hotels and throughout the hospitality industry, the far greater potential for the...
Combined, these two areas would use the Surface for increasing the speed of new product development and shared product planning, and also increase the level of accuracy as well. From Mr. Ballmer's presentation at the Wall Street Journal All Things Digital Conference (Costa, 2007) it is clear Microsoft sees the potential of integrating this into their enterprise server applications including their Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), Customer Relationship Management (CRM) and customer service applications, all of which will benefit from this technology.
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