iPhone-like Touch Feature on Windows 7?

Microsoft’s next operating system, Windows 7 might support the multi-touch interface, just like the one in iPhone. This rumor comes straight from a Microsoft employee, Hilton Locke, who is working as a test engineer in Windows Shell Team. He didn’t reveal much about the upcoming "touch" features of Windows 7, but he said:

"All I will say that if you are impressed by the ‘touch features’ in the iPhone, you’ll be blown away by what’s coming in Windows 7. Now if only we could convince more OEMs that Windows Touch Technology is going to drive their sales."

Touch based input is nothing new to Microsoft. We’ve seen it in Tablet PCs and Windows Mobile Devices, but so far Microsoft’s touch technology revolved around single contact touch designed for a stylus and not finger.

You can’t really say Microsoft’s multi-touch technology in Windows 7 will bring revolutionary changes to computing, but it just implies that if multi-touch tablets are rolled out, Windows 7 will be able to handle them.

[Via: Mary Jo Foley]

This post was published by on December 13, 2007

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  • http://www.neotrepreneur.com Neotrepreneur

    hooo. Windows with touch screen. Thats nice idea XD .

  • http://techroach.com/ Tech Roach

    I’m not much interested in any innovations pooped on a Windows shyt. But, I have to admit that they sure are moving in the right direction.

    I’m not a big fan of Apple since they don’t even care to sell any of their crap here in Asian countries. They have a cult around them. But, they’re really retard.

  • http://techroach.com/ Tech Roach

    What the deuce ?! I can’t even type “R-e-t-a-r-d” because it’ll get censored ???!! Take this, censorbot : “Screw you fuckass !!”.

    Muhahaha ……. X loge0
    *evil laughter

  • http://jeymp3.com Murali

    We have wait and see if anybody is going to be ‘impressed’ by the iphone touch features.

  • http://techblissonline.com Techblissonline.com

    Everything is being done for iphone or like iphone… :) crazy…

  • http://www.dolcemp3.com apurvajk

    Oh really, I can believe that a Microsoft employee can say something that is rumor, are you sure this IE7 will work?

  • http://www.enfootwear.com/ Mephisto

    can I see MinWin (Windows 7 core)?

  • priya

    We have wait and see if anybody is going to be ‘impressed’ by the iphone touch features.

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