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| by Alex Zaharov-Reutt | |
| Thursday, 29 May 2008 | |
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Page 2 of 3 The Windows Vista Team Blog’s Chris Flores wrote an interesting post about Windows 7’s multi-touch technology, reminding readers that Microsoft has been working with “many forms of natural input” for years. Featured Whitepaper
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Given all the hoopla over the iPhone over the past 18 months, I’ll bet Bill Gates is a tad annoyed he didn’t bring Surface to the surface, so to speak, in late 2006, long before the first iPhone demonstration, but that’s all ancient history now. Anyway, Flores says that: “Surface harnesses touch and multi-touch capabilities to provide users with a natural way to interact directly with computing devices. Expect to see the table-like Surface devices in hotels, retail establishments, restaurants and public entertainment venues.” Flores also tells us that: “Touch is quickly becoming a common way of directly interacting with software and devices. Touch-enabled surfaces are popping up everywhere including laptop touch pads, cell phones, remote controls, GPS devices, and more.” “What becomes even more compelling is when this experience is delivered to the PC -on a wide variety of Windows notebooks, in all-in-one PC's, as well as in external monitors. In working with our broad ecosystem of hardware and software manufactures, we're excited to be showing some of the great work and investments we are working on in Windows 7.” The blog post then has an embedded video showing Windows 7’s multi-touch features in action, which look extremely iPhonesque, and tells us that “it's all Windows 7 underneath.” So, what’s one Windows 7 promise already made that has been broken, especially if Windows 7 is being built on the foundation of Vista SP1 and Server 2008’s codebase, which is vastly improved over the original Vista RTM release? |
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