Microsoft Show First Windows 7 Demo
by Liam Bailey
2008-05-29 06:51:39 **news**
Tue 27 May saw Microsoft unveiling Windows 7 in the first official demo of the software. Windows 7 is to feature multi-touch screen technology. As though following the Iphone, like Samsung, having also now brought out a touch-screen mobile phone.
I recently got an Iphone, and I'll be honest, I love it, but when I get a new phone it becomes my pride and joy, and for the first few months I shine and polish it, wash my hands before I touch it and many more extreme measures to keep it shiny. Then after a few weeks it goes back to normal and I use it like it's just a phone.
So, during my Iphone's honeymoon period, it has broken my heart having to dirty the screen. Each time I clean and polish the phone, and the screen, then five minutes later I have to use the phone, sliding my finger across the screen to unlock it, then pressing a few buttons by touching the screen and I'm back to square one -- like I said, it breaks my heart.
The biggest problem is that Apple have refused to allow the use of any kind of Pen or other input device that you could use to touch the screen, it must be your finger.
So I say to Microsoft, if you must use this new fangled technology, please release a pen or device so people don't need to dirty their pride and joy with their greasy paws. No offence intended, but it doesn't matter how fervently I wash my hands before touching my Iphone, it is still all smeared when I am finished, it's a nightmare.
Light at the end of the tunnel: apparently the touch technology is not to replace the mouse or keyboard, but is an alternative input device. Microsoft also hinted and features like digital ink in the new operating system and prominence of speech recognition technology, which gives way to hopes that indeed, the touch technology will involve a pen somewhere along the line -- here's hoping.
Anyway, I just got a new computer with Vista, so I won't be getting Windows 7 anytime soon. Please post your comments below on Microsoft's latest operating system.
