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Windows 7 Touch, Dead On Arrival
snydeq writes "Ongoing Microsoft hype around its Surface touch technology has suggested that, with Windows 7, a touch-based UI revolution is brewing. Unfortunately, the realities of touch use in the desktop environment and the lack of worthwhile development around the technology are conspiring against the notion of touch ever finding a meaningful place on the desktop, as InfoWorld's Galen Gruman finds out reviewing Windows 7's touch capabilities. 'There's a chicken-and-egg issue to resolve,' Gruman writes. 'Few apps cry out for a touch UI, so Microsoft and Apple can continue to get away with merely dabbling with touch as an occasional mouse-based substitute. It would take one or both of these OS makers to truly touchify their platforms, using common components to pull touch into a great number of apps automatically. Without a clear demand, their incentive to do so doesn't exist.'"
I'm sorry--it must be hard for you to work at Microsoft. Maybe when the economy gets better you can get a job someplace less evil.
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True. Most of the touch screen games in bars are Linux based. I know because I see them crash all the time.
You certainly can find some niblet that C-pound has implemented such as you mentioned. But it remains just logic. The vast number of disadvantages of having to live in the MS ecosystem far outweigh the alleged advantages of having some obscure feature. It sounds like in the next breath you'll be telling me that "Gandalf has many powers..."
Nice trolling.
You've pulled a heap of Microsoft's astroturfing moderators out of the woodwork, getting +4 Insightful with a completely offtopic comment.
It's a pity moderation's not publicly visible so we could name & shame the shills.
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