Microsoft Kitchen?

According to Mary Jo Foley at ZDnet, Microsoft preps a Windows-based kitchen client:

Among the features Microsoft is planning to make part of its forthcoming kitchen computing environment are a family calendar, recipe center, entertainment features and a shared bulletin board, sources added.

I guess it’s Surface technology opens ways to a whole new markets of “Tailored PCs”. I wonder when my firdge and laundry machine will run Vista…
Or if it means that my parents will now call me every time the fridgelaundrykitchen stops working…

Just hope it wouldnt just end up as a museum exhibit like this computer I saw when visting the computing history museum at Palo Alto: