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Windows 7 Touch: It's For The Kitchen? (MSFT)
Silicon Alley Insider — ... Microsoft (MSFT) thinks there's a future in "touch" PCs, so much so the company is set to invest millions in Israeli start-up N-Trig to help ensure new touch technologies will work well with Windows 7. ...

Microsoft Helps Back N-Trig's $24M Funding For Touch-Sensing PCs
paidContent — ... $24 million funding, WSJ reports. Other backers include Aurum Ventures, Challenger Ltd, Canaan Partners, Evergreen Venture Partners, ...

First Bytes: The valueof internet activity
Tech Observer — A Harvard physicist has determined the amount of carbon dioxide generated by each Google search. [Cnet] Burger King is trying to lure Facebook users by getting them to "un-friend" some of their Facebook friends. [Bits] Roger McNamee talks to Kara Swisher about why the Palm Pre is the end-all-be-all. [AllThingsD] Microsoft is working on touchscreens for personal computers. [WSJ] Related Links First Bytes: Google, Bezos, Facebook, more Last Bytes: Facebook, Adobe, more Microsoft Live Search to Facebook: ...

When Touch Is Inappropriate [GigaOM]
GigaOM Network — ... , such as with the touch technologies used by HP’s TouchSmart PC and the Microsoft Surface table. An article in today’s Wall Street Journal hypes Microsoft’s efforts, and spends a good amount of verbiage on how touch could replace the mouse, but won’t be useful everywhere. ...

Microsoft making a big investment in Surface
CrunchGear — Microsoft wants to make sure you can use their touch screen sooner, rather then later. N-trig Ltd., a start-up that makes touch-sensing screen hardware, is expected to announce that Microsoft is the largest investor in a $24 million round of funding. The software company is making the investment to help N-trig quickly make their technology work well with Windows 7. What they didn’t say was exactly what size the touchscreen will be. [via WSJ]

CNBC’s Mason: Microsoft is clueless
MacDailyNews — ... Mason: Microsoft is clueless Monday, January 12, 2009 - 12:00 PM EST "Among computer geeks of a certain age Microsoft has long been synonymous with the word evil. I think that's giving the brass at Microsoft a little too much credit. To me, they're just clueless," Cliff Mason writes for CNBC. MacDailyNews Take: Microsoft's always been clueless, it's nice to see that more and more people are realizing it with each passing day. "Witness this story in today's Wall Street Journal, ' Microsoft Betting Big on 'Touch,' ' about how Microsoft is the largest investor in the latest, $24 ...

N-trig lands $24M
VC Ratings — ... . Microsoft reportedly contributed the largest portion of the funding and is working with N-trig to develop its technology to work with the latest version of the software giant's operating system. ...

Microsoft news roundup: Bet on touch has detractors; 'Everybody's business' is new ad tagline; Windows 7 Beta arrives;
The Seattle Times: Microsoft Pri0 — Microsoft and several venture firms are investing in N-trig, an Israeli company working with "OEMs to create multi-touch notebooks and convertible computers for the mainstream marketplace." Microsoft is the lead investor in the $24 million financing round, according to The Wall Street Journal. Microsoft has been touting new touch features -- which substitute fingers and stylus for some tasks done with mouse and keyboard -- in Windows 7. But not everyone is excited about this. "I'm not a fan of touch-screen PCs. I do see why some users like touch on their phones and MP3 players. But on PCs, touch just seem like a problem in search of a ...

Microsoft Invests Millions in Multitouch Company
Technologizer — N-Trig Multitouch In an effort to make Windows 7’s multitouch user-interface one of the OS’s top selling points, Microsoft has invested millions in Israeli startup N-trig to provide PCs with touchscreen technology. Today, N-trig announced that it had completed a US$24 million fund raising round ...