Microsoft Surface

When I first heard about 'Surface' I thought wow that's a neat idea but sort of a novelty. Now that I've actually seen the videos all I can say is wow! If this new system works like they show it working it will be truly awesome. Imagine if it was compatible with all devices even other PCs and dare I say it Macs (Probably wishful thinking) for instance; Imagine setting your laptop down on this thing and syncing your photos from your laptop to your Zune or to your PSP if this just works off of wi-fi this isn't to far fetched. This is one technology that I think Microsoft is ahead of the game with. Imagine the possibilities, Not only would device lessen the learning curve for younger kids and elderly people. People tend to respond better to a technology that they can touch and feel. However Microsoft needs to watch which direction they take this in, if they keep everything open and keep up to date with the drivers and include drivers for everything that has Wi-Fi on it this will be a truly awesome piece of tech, however on the flip side if they close it to only Microsoft stuff they'll suffer a lot not necessarily failing but it won't be as good as it could be. Also being touch sensitive I can see designers using it like a wacom tablet using a stylus to draw out their creations. I could even see architects using this with digital modeling imagine taking a virtual tour through a house with a touch of your finger and flipping, modifying, and redoing anything with just a flick of a wrist. Watching the video I think that they have stolen a little bit from multi touch but as far as I can tell everything else is original. I know Apple came out with multi touch first and I'm even a big fan of Apple (I own a Mac Book Pro and love it), but Microsoft has taken it much further than I've seen with Apple's technology that's not saying Apple doesn't have something like this. I've heard that Apple is making a full-sized multi touch device (Like surface? More like the iPhone? I don't really know.). We're still a long way from the 'Minority Report' interface but we're getting there.

EDIT: By minority report I mean no apparent UI just like a window and using your hands to navigate without touching the surface.