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Microsoft Surface Gets High-Touch Exposure with Sheraton Hotels

by Jason Bean on August 13th, 2008

The latest location for you to get to experience Microsoft Surface for yourself could be at your local Sheraton Hotel. The video above focuses on how a device like Microsoft Surface can be used at a hotel to serve as a virtual concierge. Fairly good execution I would agree.

Sheraton Hotels & Resorts and Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ: MSFT) today introduced an entirely new hotel guest experience with its debut of Microsoft Surface, Microsoft’s first commercially available surface computer. Featuring easy-to-use technology and a natural way of accessing information, Surface units will be placed in the lobbies of select Sheraton hotels in Boston, Chicago, New York, San Francisco and Seattle. Microsoft Surface breaks down the traditional barriers between people and technology, providing simple and instant access to information and entertainment. Sheraton will be the first hotel to offer Microsoft Surface, creating a new Sheraton brand experience that will bring interaction, connectivity and a social setting to the lobby, providing guests with an entirely new way to explore local tourist highlights and enhance their hotel stay.

Have you played with Microsoft Surface yourself? I’d love to hear about your experiences with the device. Is it going to change what we think about user-interface and computing? Or, is it just a bunch of unique hype and just out-of-touch with real-world usage today?

Source: GottaBeMobile – Microsoft Surface Checks In At The Sheraton

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