Touch-enabled PCs and browsers: Do not want
Touch-enabled PCs and browsers: Do not want (flag)
blogs.zdnet.com — If you have any doubts that Microsoft is going to keep pushing touch down users' throats, the company's investment of $24 million in N-Trig, which develops technology for touch-enabling PC screens should put those to rest.
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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 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 solution," writes Mary Jo Foley. ...

OK, so that’ll be one multitouch PC and a gross of screen wipes
GMSV — ... , which featured an integrated cutting board). As one who zealously guards his screen against any and all approaching fingers, count me among the dubious . But get touch-free, gesture-based input honed for the home and I’ll perk up. ...

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