Microsoft’s Surface computers have taken a while to trickle into public places, but now they’re turning up in Vegas casinos the Big M’s allowing developers to get their hands on the code behind them, releasing an SDK and allowing 3rd party apps to be made.
The Windows-maker has announced the first Surface SDK at the Microsoft Professional Developers conference, giving more than 1,000 developers attending the event a copy of the software.
It’ll let them create applications that respond to dozens of simultaneous touches, recognise objects placed on the surface and accept inputs such as text without a keyboard.
That’s the software sorted, but the hardware itself is still rarer than Bill Gates at a car boot sale, so Microsoft’s giving all developers with a copy of the SDK a discount on the computers themselves. They’ll still cost $13,500, or £8,700, each but at least the apps can be shown off for real.
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