The Magic Touch?
One major area of change in WIndows 7's interface may not mean much to most PC users:Only a handful of current machines,such as HP's TouchSmart PC and Dell's Latitude Xt laptop,support multi-touch input.But in theory this feature would let you operate a touch-screened-equipped windows 7 computer as if it were a massive iphone,using your finger-tips to launch applications ,shuffile windows around,and enlarge and shrink photos by grabbing them with both hands.
Not suprisingly.microsoft has'nt yet enabled all of this functionality.Using TouchSmart PC at a Windows 7 reviewer's Workshop,we could fingerpaint with photo manipulations that would be a lot more useful in real life.
Check out this video on windows 7 touch interface.
Microsoft promises that windows 7 will ship with more touch features.Th company is also working to make the OS smart enough to figure out whether you're using a mouse or your fingers so it can adjust accordingly.For example,if you tap the start button with your fingertip rather than with the mouse pointer you'll get a slightly larger Start menu that requires less finess to navigate.And you dont see a mouse pointer when you touch the screen withyour finger-you get a brief puddle effect where you've made screen contact.
Will the touch interface that makes the iphone cool work on a laptop or desktop system?We're skeptical,but windows 7 lays the software ground that will allow pc manufatures to give it a try,at least.
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