Posted by tranced
Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates and CEO Steve Ballmer on Tuesday unveiled a small preview of the company's next operating system – tentatively referred to as Windows 7 – at the All Things Digital executive conference. The preview demonstrated the integration of multi-touch directly into all application layers, allowing users to use multiple fingers in Paint, resize and rotate photographs, and performing many actions similar to that of the iPhone.
The demonstration also showed Microsoft Virtual Earth, which can be navigated by touch in both "road" and "aerial" views. Users can search for a location, such as Starbucks, and touch the push-pin representing the desired location, and information about the café will appear.
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Posted by procterdc
Just shows how much confidence Bill Gates has in Vista lol
Posted by Danny_BFC
Anyone who bashed vista really should give it a go on dual boot with XP it makes a nice change. Its the only operating system i have used where it is instantly usable when the bottom toolbar and desktop icons show up. Then its not even a second to load up firefox it really is impressing me this, the second time i've had it.
Posted by haynesycop
Apple does it and then months down the line good old Bill pops along with the same thing, hmmmm multi touch, never heard of that.
Posted by Trev1982
If any of you people read Micro Mart you will no that Bill and his cronies have already said Vista was basicly a trial run !!!!!!!!!!
Posted by kenoby
Just like Sony Ericsson phones. But we're still buying them:)
Posted by Muhammad-Oli
On 2008-05-28 13:55:20, taz666 wrote:
If any of you people read Micro Mart you will no that Bill and his cronies have already said Vista was basicly a trial run !!!!!!!!!!
Excuses excuses...
Posted by QVGA
so you'll need a touch screen monitor?
Posted by thomas93
Multi-touch is on the trackpad, EEE has it
Posted by NightBlade
How is it OSX-like?
Posted by kenoby
^^^ Every move of Microsoft in some direction is rendered a copy of someones work.
Posted by kenoby
On 2008-05-28 15:38:56, QVGA wrote:
so you'll need a touch screen monitor?
Windows 7 is a development step forward from Windows Vista and its TabletPC capabilities. The video just shows improvement in interaction. You will not need the touchscreen, but it is an obvious advantage.
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Posted by paul101
err, i have a touchscreen, what can winduhs 7 do that my laptop cant??
Posted by thomas93
Paulio -
QVGA things they mean iPhone multi-touch.
Posted by kenoby
Sorry QVGA, as it turns out, we'll must have touchscreen enabled computer:
http://www.istartedsomething.[....]volution-of-taskbar-windows-7/
Posted by paul101
On 2008-05-29 19:03:05, thomas93 wrote:
Paulio -
QVGA things they mean iPhone multi-touch.
errr... my computer can do that
Posted by thomas93
So can the eee 900.
Posted by paul101
On 2008-05-29 20:55:54, thomas93 wrote:
So can the eee 900.
even at that, ive got touchscreen, (press control + alt +z) and i can freely rotate the windows with my hand!
some features:
that flip thing seen in i-phone... been around a long time!!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YkyKIyNvZTM&feature=related
move all the windows around:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s724VCKBkGE
(settings are adjustable for use with 2 fingers)
Posted by kenoby
Even XP can do that for that matter, right Paul?
Posted by QVGA
On 2008-05-29 10:01:18, kenoby wrote:
On 2008-05-28 15:38:56, QVGA wrote:
so you'll need a touch screen monitor?
Windows 7 is a development step forward from Windows Vista and its TabletPC capabilities. The video just shows improvement in interaction. You will not need the touchscreen, but it is an obvious advantage.
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It seems like the ONLY advantage to me, because the entire focus of that video is on the touch screen interactions. I dont think to date i've seen a 21'' LCD touch screen monitor. Is there any?
Posted by paul101
On 2008-05-30 08:35:06, kenoby wrote:
Even XP can do that for that matter, right Paul?
yes b u t e v e n w i t h a g o o d g r a p h i c s c a r d i t d o e s n t w o r k a s w e l l a s t h e l i n u x v e r s i o n
Posted by thomas93
Trust you to say that.
Posted by kenoby
On 2008-05-30 17:15:29, paul101 wrote:
On 2008-05-30 08:35:06, kenoby wrote:
Even XP can do that for that matter, right Paul?
yes b u t e v e n w i t h a g o o d g r a p h i c s c a r d i t d o e s n t w o r k a s w e l l a s t h e l i n u x v e r s i o n
I'll trust you on that one as I have never used touchscreen on a laptop.
Might be an eye-opener, like when you switch to touchscreen mobile phone, right?
@ QVGA, it's just beffed up Vista.. They just put touchscreen in 1st plan, this time.
Posted by paul101
On 2008-05-31 16:00:12, kenoby wrote:
On 2008-05-30 17:15:29, paul101 wrote:
On 2008-05-30 08:35:06, kenoby wrote:
Even XP can do that for that matter, right Paul?
yes b u t e v e n w i t h a g o o d g r a p h i c s c a r d i t d o e s n t w o r k a s w e l l a s t h e l i n u x v e r s i o n
I'll trust you on that one as I have never used touchscreen on a laptop.
Might be an eye-opener, like when you switch to touchscreen mobile phone, right?
@ QVGA, it's just beffed up Vista.. They just put touchscreen in 1st plan, this time.
yeah, the windows v e r s i o i n i s v e r r y j i t t e r y o n m y l l p t o p
Posted by kenoby
You are writing from it to demonstrate?
Posted by paul101
On 2008-06-01 07:10:12, kenoby wrote:
You are writing from it to demonstrate?
yes
got a problem with that?
Posted by kenoby
On 2008-06-01 11:42:30, paul101 wrote:
On 2008-06-01 07:10:12, kenoby wrote:
You are writing from it to demonstrate?
yes
got a problem with that?
I have tried many distros, but somehow I always succed to make it unstable within two months with all my trials and failures system so I have given up on Linux. For the time being. Good to know it is working for you.
Posted by masseur
lots of windows 7 screen shots