“The first public showing of Microsoft’s next major Windows update reveals an operating system with a familiar-looking dock and a more than slight emphasis on multi-touch displays.
Demonstrated at the Wall Street Journal’s D6 Conference, Windows 7 is described by observers from the newspaper as having a touch interface recognizable to “anyone who’s ever used an iPhone.
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There will also be hooks for multi-touch throughout the entire Windows interface, Microsoft’s Julie Larson-Green has said while demonstrating the technology, although none of these have been demonstrated at this early stage. The software is being built with multiple simultaneous users in mind now that touchscreens and other peripherals free users from being tied to a keyboard.
“In the next few years, the roles of speech, gesture, vision, ink, all of those will become huge,” adds Microsoft chairman Bill Gates.”
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