I hope they don't just shove the Surface interface onto a Vista-like UI. They will have to completely redesign the GUI to do that because most buttons are too small for multitouch. I also hope that PCs with that enables will have a proper onscreen keyboard because going from the keyboard up to a screen is annoying (I know, I have a touchscreen).

They say 2010, that's less than two years away and what I saw there was a simple demo of unfinished programs, not something that's 2 years away from being released.

I'm also fairly sure that Apple will get it done first, Steve Jobs has alluded to them making one several times, although of course Apple doesn't announce anything officially. I'll bet Apple beats Microsoft to multitouch by two years.

Let's not forget that Microsoft already has a touch interface out for Windows Mobile and it's horrible.

If computers start coming out with multitouch interfaces standard, I wonder what that will mean for Linux. The popular distros will have to catch up quickly and redesign their interfaces with larger buttons. Some distros may resist this because their connection with older machines.

I was visiting MS offices recently, and they have the "surface" out for people to play with. It's pretty good, though you have to press it a bit harder than I'd like
You mean it's pressure sensitive? That's absurd, almost every touch interface in the world is heat sensitive. Including every mouse pad and the iPhone.