Microsoft has continued their campaign of bringing Multitouch to every person in the nation by signing a deal with Sheraton. Under this deal, several of the key facilities under the Sheraton chain will be getting Multitouch devices in their lobbies to help visitors with several different new features. Sheraton hotels in San Francisco, Seattle, Boston, Chicago and New York will be benefitting from the Multitouch-enabled Surface devices as they get installed in the lobbies of hotels in all five cities. These surface devices will be embedded in tables located within the lobbies and will be accessible by anyone that wants to walk into the lobby and use the computer. Computer functionality is rumoured to be quite high as the people using the Surface computers will
The electronics world will never cease to amaze with the amount of intrigue that it can come up with. However, when millions of dollars are at stake on every single decision that a major company makes, we can perhaps forgive them for playing their cards close to their chest. If this type of cagey behaviour is understandable under normal circumstances, it is perhaps especially understandable for a company like Microsoft that has had its clocked cleaned on a regular basis over the last few years starting with the Windows Vista fiasco and ending with Apple’s near-complete takeover of the mobile marketplace for electronic devices. However, Microsoft did release something new today by launching a blog for Windows 7. This blog will be written by people