By the time anything of this comes down to the consumer it will suck tremendously. It's incredibly difficult for big companies to innovate. They'd be better off just buying smaller interesting companies to aquire interesting technologies rather than trying to implement it themselves. Like Next buying that french? company to get Objective-C.
My old dentist had plain old PC's spread through the office, Many were touch screen but they used Outlook with custom modifications and generally used a keyboard.
It worked pretty well for them. Moreover, I can see them going with that setup for twenty years or more. There weren't any more efficiencies to squeeze out of their system. No one needed web access, remote access wouldn't be worth the trouble, etc.
Outlook may indeed suck but once the consumer actually knows how to use it, it is good enough. Indeed, given that most people dislike computers and dislike learning about computers, the UI which people have learned will be even harder to displace than no UI at all.
Videos like that are a clear sign of a company that can't innovate. Creating a video like that suggests Microsoft's "creative" people are not really part of the design processes and the company has no idea what to do with them. And those "Creative" people don't understand what makes useful advances vs. art.
None of those "products" would be that hard to prototype today, but the interfaces are just not that useful. Take that screen shot capture in the meeting. Now outlook or some location aware system could keep track of where people are and link to the meeting notes, but no they want to guess where you're eyes are and figure out where the screen is ect. It's different, but not useful.
