We finally get a first look at the upcoming Microsoft Windows 7 as it gets unveiled at the All Things Digital Conference yesterday. But still, little is known about the highly-anticipated OS that is to be the successor of Windows Vista come 2010.
From the video above, we can see that there are lots of emphasis on touch interface support. Multi-touch gestures in photo galleries like two-finger zoom, flicking, and panning, multi-touch paint program where you can draw with 10 fingers, Multi-touch piano software, application that pulls from Microsoft Live Maps and Microsoft Virtual Earth with, again, support for touch.
There will also supposedly be an OSX-like dock. Ha, the copycats are in action again. Time will tell if this will be an innovative breakthrough, or a lackluster offering like the Vista.
June 12th, 2008 at 5:14 am
They need to doa total rethink. Not of new stuff, liek nonsense touch-enabled stuff, but how to make it user-friendly like Vista. If it goes in the direction of Vista, UAC, and that garbage, it’s already doomed.
July 13th, 2008 at 4:58 am
Mmm Every single feature in that video is already available (and has been for a while) in apple products. And now we have to wait for 2010, gotta love monopolies…
August 23rd, 2008 at 10:31 pm
This is a demonstration of Microsoft’s product Surface, not of a future operating system. Surface is a multi-touch interface technology, similar to the touch method used on iphones and the ipod touch… The software is already available for Vista, and has already been implemented, for example, at AT&T wireless stores, for their customer service kiosks. Any computer with Vista and a multi-touch capable display should be able to run Surface. The software could be released right away for the average home user, the problem is with the hardware technology, and that there aren’t that many manufacturers out there making multi-touch displays that are affordable for the average home user. Once the technology becomes more accessable, you’ll start seeing it more often in home pcs… and it won’t just be for windows either, linux, and OSX users will be able to join in on the fun too.
Also the whole object dock thing, If you want an object dock for windows, it’s already available… try going to http://www.stardock.com and checking out their object dock for xp and vista.
October 21st, 2008 at 12:46 am
Another new windows? I haven’t even switched to Vista yet… lol… multi-touch.. ohh..ahh.. people want functionality, not finger-printed dirty screens 24 hours a day. Shocking how far Bill is going away from his roots.
November 2nd, 2008 at 6:58 am
This version of Windows 7 has a lot of same features Microsoft Surface will offer to business, multi-touch is what is coming in the near feature no more typing using keyboard because everything will be done via the monitor.
Also I don’t know where I saw it but a mirror will be sold with multi-touch capability, no more traditional mirrors now it will run an operating system to support multi-touching I guess Microsoft is behind all this.