Microsoft is taking the wraps off its Milan tabletop computer this week, but the notion of a table-like machine has generated interest within the company since at least 2001. Industrial designer Allan Han fashioned Microsoft's first surface-computer prototype, dubbed T1, from a bright blue Ikea table.
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