Windows 7 demo: all multitouch and no meat
The demonstrated software was more or less the same demos we saw with Surface—photo scaling, finger painting, splashing about in water—along with a Virtual Earth/Google Earth-style mapping program. And that’s the extent of it. That’s all that was demonstrated. The demoed software appeared to have a new taskbar, but no details on this were forthcoming; when quizzed on it, the demonstrator replied, “It’s something we’re working on for Windows 7 that I’m not supposed to talk about right now.” Windows 7 demo: all multitouch and no meat
Splashing! How cool!
3 Comments
chrisgilmore
May 29th, 2008
at 4:37am
Exactly, the multi-touch features won’t even take off until the OEM hardware had the capabilities to do so – which will take a long time.
It’ll just be an epic fail unless the OEMs say otherwise.
I’ll be posting some other extended views of my own and others on my blog as well later today.
varial8kickflip
May 29th, 2008
at 7:05am
I must admin thats pretty good but i would have to buy a touch screen to use it and it seems a little too much to get for touching virtual water…
Commodore256
May 29th, 2008
at 11:56am
Sure it looks cool, but is it more stable? Knowing the guys that gave you Windows ME, Windows Vista and Microsoft Bob, the answer is “No, we love abusing our market share”.