In the context of Quora it seems most of the experience is designed around this, though there are subtle things that make it special like the ability to provide only one answer per question.

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This is still a commercial product, though Microsoft still sees a future tabletop version for things like shipping photos from your phone, or organizing all your online information in one place.

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By this we can imagine things like satellite tracking, intelligence sharing, and naval patrols, though the latter remain politically sensitive in Japan.

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