news.bbc.co.uk - 3/26/2009
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The multi-touch controls familiar to Apple iPhone users will be built-in to Microsoft's Windows 7. Windows Touch will be a "first class way to interact with your PC alongside mouse and keyboard," said the firm. Microsoft believes multi-touch PCs will become popular in retail, public spaces, on ...
microsoft.com - 3/26/2009
blogs.msdn.com - 3/25/2009
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We’ve come a long way in engineering Windows
7 since we first provided an engineering preview of...
Windows 7 and the work we are doing to support the touch interface paradigm back at the D: All Things Digital conference . We chose to kick-off the ...
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Touching Windows 7
arstechnica.com - 3/26/2009
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arstechnica.com —
This is pre-release software, so please read the
following to get an idea of the risks and...
key things you need to know before you try the RC. You don't need to rush to get Windows 7 RC. The RC release will be available at least through June 2009 and ...
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Windows 7 RC download page goes up early, coming in May
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BBC blows it: Microsoft to bring ‘multi-touch’ to PCs soon with ‘Windows Touch’
MacDailyNews —
... - December 26, 2008 Full article here . MacDailyNews Take: Does it make more sense to be smearing your fingers around on your notebook's screen or on a spacious trackpad that's designed specifically and solely to be touched? Apple thinks things through more than other companies, Darren. You should know that by now. The iPhone's screen has to be touched; that's all it has available. A MacBook's screen does not have to be touched in order to offer Multi-Touch™. There is a better way: Apple's way. Watch Mouthpiece-For-Sale (read: "non-independent") Rob Enderle "demonstrate" ...
BBC blows it: Microsoft soon bring ‘multi-touch’ to PCs with ‘Windows Touch’
MacDailyNews —
... - December 26, 2008 Full article here . MacDailyNews Take: Does it make more sense to be smearing your fingers around on your notebook's screen or on a spacious trackpad that's designed specifically and solely to be touched? Apple thinks things through more than other companies, Darren. You should know that by now. The iPhone's screen has to be touched; that's all it has available. A MacBook's screen doesn't not have to be touched in order to offer Multi-Touch™. There is a better way; Apple's way. Watch Mouthpiece-For-Sale Rob Enderle "demonstrate" touch in Windows 7 beta ...
Windows 7 Touch logo program detailed, Release Candidate "at the end of May"
Engadget —
... (natch). Certified machines must pass a 43-step test that validates the core requirements under different conditions. Every device submitted for logo will be tested in-house by Microsoft. Hit the read link for the exhaustive detail straight from the unicorn's mouth. P.S. The BBC's report on the new logo program says that Microsoft will kick out the Windows 7 release candidate for users "at the end of May," not April as ARS previously rumored. [Via BBC] Filed under: Desktops, Laptops, Tablet PCs Windows 7 Touch logo ...
Windows 7 to go the multi-touch way
Gizmo Watch —
... in popularity, and Windows 7 could ride the wave by being the first to reach there. Multi-touch will find application in retail, public spaces and on laptops. Windows Touch will have features like drag, scroll, zoom, flick, rotate, tap and double tap.
Internet Explorer and Windows Media Center are among the programs that will be optimized for touch. Programs that aren’t optimized for touch will havethe feature will be available in some basic form, like scrolling.
Via: BBC
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