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Eee Is 1st Windows Laptop To Support Multi-Touch

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the still-playing-catch-up dept.

An anonymous reader writes "CNET UK has just put up its review of the Asus Eee PC 900 Win running Windows XP and discovered that it's the first Windows machine to support multi-touch, 'Better still, the mouse trackpad supports multi-touch gesture inputs — even in Windows XP. A pinching motion lets you zoom in on images, stretching lets you zoom out, and a two-finger vertical stroking motion allows you to scroll up and down through documents. MacBook Air and iPod touch users have enjoyed this feature for some time, but it's the first we've ever seen it implemented on a Windows laptop.'"

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  1. Re:Where's the patent??? by Kenja · · Score: 4, Interesting

    The first Multi Touch style demo I ever saw was several years ago from Microsoft.

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  2. Re:Where's the patent??? by wvmarle · · Score: 4, Interesting
    But, as usual with Microsoft, the really cool functions and innovations continue to be postponed to "the next release".

    It is quite sad that a cool and very useful feature demonstrated years ago by the leading software maker (by revenue) in the world, has to be made popular by implementation in a mobile phone by a total newcomer in that market (Apple with the iPhone), followed by implementation by a hardware maker on a low-end, low-cost laptop (the EEE). And it is not that this leading software maker can not get hardware makers to change the hardware standards, thinking of the Windows key that is present on virtually any keyboard now on the market.