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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. Re:Why is this modded flamebait? by His+Shadow · · Score: 0, Troll

    How about a requirement to fix Windows and stop pretending their half assed copying of someone else's OS means they are moving ahead? They couldn't even get the taskbar right, sticking it on the bottom. How intuitive!

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  2. Ridiculous by alexborges · · Score: 0, Troll

    I mean, I saw "multitouch" with compiz a while back at some demo or another. I dont think it does a lot for usability. I think that what theyve shown so far is that the best they can offer are BADLY DONE copies of what REAL innovators (Linux, Apple) do.

    Fuck microsoft and the horse they rode on.

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  3. Wow, is Microsoft really this out of touch? (haha) by Dan667 · · Score: 0, Troll

    Why can't they fork this? Develop one operating system that boots in 5 seconds and supports all of the drivers needed effortlessly and supports useful things like copying a Gigabyte worth of files on a network without crippling the system in CPU/bandwidth (or give an error message like Linux does that it cannot do it). And then develop this second eye candy crapola operating system that has these features for all of the 10 people that want it.