Microsoft to Install Surface Systems in AT&T Stores

Remember Microsoft's Surface? You know, that big honkin' table with a touch-sensitive computer worked into it? Well, you can finally see it in action on April 17th . . .at your nearest AT&T store. Okay, so maybe not your nearest store. But folks out in New York, Atlanta, San Antonio, and San Francisco will be able to get their grubby mitts on its 30-inch screen.

Aside from attracting pokes and prods, the units are supposed to jazz up the store experience, and serve as Microsoft's proof of concept. Whether the 20 or so demo units will make a big splash with customers is looking dicey though. Reports say that the units' primary function will be displaying additional info about the AT&T phones you set on it. . . and that's about it.

Oh, and for those wiseacres wanting to slap an iPhone down on this hunk of Microsoft bloat -- don't bother. For some cra-azy reason, the Surface doesn't recognize it.