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VIRTUALISATION Windows 7’s touching impact on 2010 hardware sales?
VIRTUALISATION Windows 7’s touching impact on 2010 hardware sales? | Windows 7’s touching impact on 2010 hardware sales? |
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| by Alex Zaharov-Reutt | |
| Thursday, 11 June 2009 | |
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Veghte went on to explain that people would go on to buy new PCs as the economy recovered and that no-one is using PCs any less at the moment. Apple’s US $29 OS X upgrade for existing OS X 10.5 users to 10.6 is a clear challenge to Microsoft’s pricing policy for Windows 7 upgrades, and in likely retaliation for Microsoft’s “Laptop Hunter” TV ads which saw “Lauren” proclaim she wasn’t cool enough to own a Mac. But even if Microsoft launches Windows 7 in its two retail versions at really incredibly low pricing, which could encourage PC owners to try upgrading to postpone spending money on buying a new computer, Windows 7’s support for multi-touch technology is fantastic. Using a Tablet PC running Windows 7 with (currently) 4 points of multi-touch enabled is really fantastic, bringing the iPhone experience to a much larger screen, with more points of multi-touch to be software enabled on HP’s TouchSmart tx2 tablet (and coming on future devices). I’ve been able to try it on that HP tx2, with the upcoming Windows 7 Touch Pack, and unlike some earlier demos I’ve seen on the web, the experience is smooth, very iPhone-like in some programs, and brings the entire Tablet PC concept to life – especially when you retain the ability to use a proper stylus as well. The Win 7 Touch Pack includes a Virtual Earth app as seen on the Surface PC, the “photo” corkboard also from Surface that two people can independently manipulate photos on-screen, with fingers, at the same time (up to 84 fingers simultaneously on Surface however), the Blackboard which is similar to Crayon Physics, games and more, and is but a continuing indicator of a rich touch interface future to come. Dell’s Studio One 19 supports multi-touch, and plenty more touch and multi-touch screens, systems, notebooks, netbooks and smartphones are on the way. Asus has its Eee PC T91 multitouch netbook tablet coming soon, and with Windows 7 the true explosion of Windows based touch products is expected to come, with Apple still yet to make its on-screen multi-touch technology a reality beyond the 3.5-inch iPhone. But aren't touch screens too expensive? Aren't they just being called unneeded bells and whistles? Please read on to page 2... |
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