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Windows 7 gets logo for multi-touch
electronista.com - 3/26/2009
Windows 7 gets logo for multi-touch
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Microsoft has outlined plans to standardize Windows 7's multi-touch support across PCs. Called the Windows Touch logo program, the approach will test displays for their accuracy and responsiveness to ensure that users can perform the same finger-based commands on any system, including tapping ...
Touching Windows 7
blogs.msdn.com - 3/25/2009
Touching Windows 7
— blogs.msdn.com — 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 ... (more) Touching Windows 7

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Windows 7 RC download page goes up early, coming in May
arstechnica.com - 3/26/2009
Windows 7 RC download page goes up early, coming in May
— 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 ... (more) Windows 7 RC download page goes up early, coming in May

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techradar.com - 3/23/2009
In Depth: Windows 7 interfaces you nearly had
— techradar.com — Back in 2007 the Windows team started working on the look of Windows 7. Usually Microsoft doesn't... show any of the designs it tried out along the way, but the Windows desktop team revealed several of their early designs and what they learned from ... (more) In Depth: Windows 7 interfaces you nearly had

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SlashGear:  Windows 7 offering multi-touch logo for compliant PCs

PalmAddicts:  Microsoft dares another lawsuits with Windows Touch logo

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Windows 7 offering multi-touch logo for compliant PCs
SlashGear — ... OS, including tapping, zooming, pinching and rotating. Those PC manufacturers that create computers that can perform these functions flawlessly will received the Windows Touch logo. This seems to indicate that Microsoft is planning to use multi-touch much more extensively than for just simple tapping and selecting functions. They are also very much in a race to offer greater touchscreen features than Apple. But we’ll just have to wait and see how that turns out. [via Electronista] ...

Microsoft dares another lawsuits with Windows Touch logo
PalmAddicts — ... Sources are from Windows 7 blog, via Electronista.

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