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Windows 7 Multitouch Demonstration

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the touch-me-there-oh-and-also-there dept.

Starturtle writes "Bill Gates and Steve Ballmer have shown a small snippet of the upcoming Windows 7 at Walt Mossberg's D: All Things Digital conference. It seems like the Windows team have switched their focus for inspiration from Mac OS X to the iPhone OS. Multitouch is the biggest addition, and will appear system-wide, usable anywhere. The most interesting part of the touch UI is not the eye candy, it's the Task Bar, which seems to have morphed into a pie menu."

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  1. Slow by wonkavader · · Score: 5, Interesting

    I notice that this machine redraws on zooms quickly, and creates a travel route quickly. That means the box has some real horsepower.

    And yet, the dragging is way behind the finger, the responses of input and menu popup is slow -- it looks like running a modern paint program on an old machine.

    This is not going to make for a pleasant user experience. Why is that stuff so uncrisp?