The original Microsoft Surface was an interactive coffee table that retailed for $10,000. It was first unveiled in May of 2007, five long years before the Surface tablets and laptops we know today.

Today, the Surface coffee table is more of a curiosity, and seeing it run Windows 10 mainly serves as a tease of what such devices could look like one day.

SEATTLE – Microsoft Corp. (MSFT) has taken the wraps off "Surface," a coffee-table shaped computer that responds to touch and to special bar codes attached to everyday objects.

microsoft surface table (The Surface 1.0 was a 30-inch table that could recognize items, like phones, on it. In this demo, placing a phone on the table brings up pricing and other information ...

We put Windows 10 on Microsoft's Surface table from 2008, just to see how it'd hold up. Spoiler: It's super cool.

The software giant has built a new touchscreen computera coffee table that will change the world. Go inside its top-secret development with Popular Mechanics, then forget the keyboard and mouse.

Microsoft’s attempt to turn a coffee table into a computer looks like a bold and attractive project that could well appeal to companies seeking nopvel ways to demonstrate their goods and services.

Microsoft expects Surface, it's so-called "Coffee Table" PC, to change the way users interact with digital media. Here are a few examples of how and why.

One of Microsoft Corp.'s biggest secrets looks like a normal coffee table. Until it's switched on. After years of covert development, Microsoft says it will release a computer that uses the ...

Microsoft Distinguished Scientist Stevie Bathiche, co-inventor of the original Surface table, shows off the Samsung SUR40 giant tablet. Matt Weinberger/Business Insider ...

The word "Surface" in Microsoft has come a long way. It started out as a futuristic idea of a coffee table that also functioned as a touch screen computer. Since then it has become a brand than ...

AT&T will soon be the first company to use Microsoft’s touch-enabled, tabletop Surface computers as customer-service kiosks in stores. The carrier said Wednesday that beginning April 17 ...