Windows 7 Multitouch Demonstration

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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Finally Something Is Being Done About the Taskbar

[RAMMS EIN]

Finally, something is being done about the taskbar. It's a neat enough interface if you have only a few windows open, but quickly becomes a useless waste of screen space once you open more windows. I'm happy that Microsoft is finally rethinking the idea. There are various alternatives that would be better, so the chance for improvement is certainly there. And here's to hoping GNOME and KDE will follow suit and improve theirs...