So Microsoft released its brand-new product 'Surface', a small desktop that runs a desktop, which means that a specially prepared Windows PC is used for providing a digital desktop experience. You might view videos, do funny games, have some user experience somewhere between iPhone and Windows etc.

I'm not that impressed. In principle it's the old desktop metaphor, only the desktop became a bit more colourful and it looks a bit more playful. It's a consumer machine that doesn't leave the well-known paths of common GUIs. I never thought I was working in such an innovative environment, when we developed a pioneer device in 1993: one of its features included a 3D display. It was meant to break the desktop metaphor.