Windows 7 Multi-touch demo at D6 Conference
Martin | May 28, 2008 | Comments 13
We announced a few days ago that Bill Gates and Steve Ballmer will make an appearance at the D6 Conference demonstrating the new user interface of Windows 7.
Microsoft’s Julie Larson-Green had the honor to do the demonstration saying that Microsoft is using part of the multi-touch technology from Microsoft Surface to enhance Windows 7. The operating system the demonstration is running on is a Dell Latitude XL with Windows 7.
This demonstration is basically showing how Microsoft Surface could enhance Windows 7 on computers. It’s still a bit early to judge if this feature will have a big impact and how it will be implemented into Windows 7. I think that monitors with touch support will still be a minority in 2010 when Windows 7 comes out. Great for notebooks or other mobile devices though.
Here are some quotes from the interview with Bill Gates and Steve Ballmer: (click for full transcript)
- Windows 7 is apparently months away, due late in 2009.
- Walt asks Ballmer if he’s worried about the next iteration of Mac OS X, which will likely be released before Windows 7. Is there a risk that the work you’re doing now with multi-touch will look dated when Apple (AAPL) releases its next OS?
Ballmer says he’s confident Microsoft will have fantastic Windows 7 PCs, regardless of what Apple’s got on the market. “There’s a lot in Windows 7, and our goal is to produce fantastic PCs with our hardware partners.” - The conversation turns to Windows 7, which Microsoft hasn’t said too much about. Clearly, the company has learned from the media beating it took over the defeatured and perennially delayed Windows Vista. Indeed, in a post to the Windows Vista blog today, Microsoft’s Chris Flore noted that Microsoft is being very careful about releasing details about Windows 7. “What is a little different today is when and how we are talking about the next version of Windows,” Flore wrote. “So, why the change in approach? We know that when we talk about our plans for the next release of Windows, people take action. As a result, we can significantly impact our partners and our customers if we broadly share information that later changes. With Windows 7, we’re trying to more carefully plan how we share information with our customers and partners. This means sharing the right level of information at the right time depending on the needs of the audience.”
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Why is it then whenever a company shows off multitouch capability they do this big thing about stretching photos, or demonstrate trivial applications that have claring been deigned for the sole purpose of domonstratig the hardware (Like the pool of water in this video)?
As a hater of the laptop touch pad (and who isn’t), I want to see everyday computing being demonstrated, not ‘Look who well multitouch works with this software specifically designed to work with it’
Why is it then whenever a company shows off multitouch capability they do this big thing about stretching photos, or demonstrate trivial applications that have claring been deigned for the sole purpose of domonstratig the hardware (Like the pool of water in this video)?As a hater of the laptop touch pad (and who isn’t), I want to see everyday computing being demonstrated, not ‘Look who well multitouch works with this software specifically designed to work with it’
I use both PC and MAC. My PC runs windows xp(used to run Vista) and my Mac runs 10.5(used to run 10.4). One of the things that I hate about 10.5 is the sluggishness. It is a PPC but it was said that I could upgrade the OS no problem. The complaint with vista was the same thing. Before the PPC to intel switch people were complaining. Now we see battles between mac and pc’s when the hardware is pretty much the same. Mac use intel chips and so do most PC’s. WTF is the difference? Now its ” I can run Vista better on My Mac”. WTF? Why would you want to ? Is it cause you can not put Mac’s in most corperate environments, so now you need to put an OS that is allowed in the corp. environment? I really do think its funny how one group will say that the grass is greaner on the other side, but in all reality we all choose what we want and there should be no care on what everyone else wants as long as you get what you want.