Innovattion: Verboten at Redmond

@ Dan: "Instead, MS talk about it, and you assume they ripped it off and that it couldn't possibly be half-decent."

Uhm... Dan? We have seen *proof* that they ripped it off.

April 2006: http://gizmodo.com/gadgets/pcs/stealth-tabletop-from-design-concepts-168792.php

June 2006, Mitsubishi: http://www.techliving.com/archives/2006/06/mitsubishi_unveils_pc_tabletop.shtml

And there are hundreds of others, *all* of which predate Microsoft's derivative (and notoriously-buggy, since it's from MS) project.