You must’ve heard it; Microsoft is going all out on multi-touch features with its Windows 7. Because whenever the giant software is talking big on its flagship product: Windows OS, every major tech news blogs and websites will cover it crazy like big sales during a huge fall bazaar. It was Microsoft’s dynamic duo: Bill Gates and Steve Ballmer who revealed Windows 7 at D6 event on Tuesday. Rafe Needleman (Webware) shares with us on what it all about: “We saw a demo of a Surface-like app for organizing photos, and what appeared to be the Windows 1.0 Paint app, except that you can now draw with all your fingers at once. Also, a digital globe app, where the two-handed interface makes good sense. And a piano app, on which, thanks to multitouch, you can now play chords.” And as any other CEOs’ big talks to promote their company’s product, the early ‘promo’ was all like putting a cherry on top of ice caked vanilla coated with sugar layers just the way public will love it. Why? Because it’s all are not too far away than another sad attempt from Microsoft to topple off Apple’s cool Mac OS X’s user interface, rather than providing Windows consumers with new and unseen before features, Microsoft is playing catch and run with Apple. Like for an instance, they should have address more important issue of the Vista’s annoying UAC (User Account Control) feature, there’s got to be a better way to enhance security than that. Okay, maybe I’m talking way ahead here. Since probably Microsoft still has something else under its sleeves when Windows 7 is shipping to consumers in late 2009 next year, and I truly hope the upcoming Windows Mobile 7 will also has more than just eye-candy ‘iPhone-alike’ user interface. In the mean time, witness and weigh it yourself the video demo below of Windows 7 multi-touch features.
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