Windows Discussion

On Tuesday, Microsoft said is next operating system, Windows 7 will be made for touch screen applications. This will be an alternative to using a mouse.

CEO Steve Ballmer demonstrated the iPhone like touch screen feature at yesterday's "D: All things digital" conference. He said it was a very small snippet of the new operating system which is expected to be released in 2009.

An employee from Microsoft demonstrated the interface by moving, enlarging and shrinking photos as well as moving through maps of Sea World in San Diego, CA.

Touch screen or tablet options has almost always been available with Windows and no one has really seemed to care. And the OS so far looks just as if it was a service pack for vista, it still looks the same. Some speculate that there might be less improvements with Windows 7 than SP2 added to XP. Hopefully microsoft will roll out some new useful features instead of making this a vista upgrade, there is still about one and a half years to find out.

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Founder of Galaxy GUI

Pretty sweet I suppose

i like the touchscreen, other then that, nope. mac needs 2 make an official touch screen comp, they already got the tech in the phone so not hard
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ya i no. they better have some good suprises. if iPhone 2.0 is all they got imma b mad. Appl is slipping 10.5.3 is the 1st update i've got lik lik 3 months
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i'm not much of a fan of touch screen :undecided:
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EDIT: Post removed. Thats what im thinking right now razar. WTH did you post an image over 750px?
Sorry but you know, there are rules around here, you dont just post what the hell. The staff has the right to remove posts for any reason and you may NOT publicly reply with "why was my post deleted?" or in your case "What the hell!"
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Founder of Galaxy GUI

2009? Surely it won't be a huge update over Vista then :/
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2010. for Blackcomb (codename win7)
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yay cool news btw. here are more screenies and news happy

http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/27/live-from-d-gates-and-ballmer-debut-windows-7/
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Looks cool. Is that going to be the same software on the "table computers" we've seen from microsoft latley?

Yeah, she said in the video it would be similar
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ehh touch screen comps seem just plain annoying i mean cool i guess but very un practicall
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only difference is multi touch which adds a new dimension of interactivity. Now im not happy that MICROSOFT is doing this but i expect that they are just implementing the same technology that u see in those tables at the T-Mobile stores with the huge touch screens on the coffee table with blue tooth ect ect. that would excelently but its not too productive. if they can find a way to minimize human error as far as slight hand trembles ect then i think it might be fine software. of course, because its microsoft it will crash often, come with the bugs preinstalled along with their parent bloatware. The good news is that Microsoft is rebuilding the windows kernel from the ground up for the next release of windows. wether this is a REALEASE or an upgrade, still eludes me...
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@alxmarcond, they are simply improving the kernel for this next version. They are NOT gonna making a new smaller one as previously suggested sad

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i never said anything about a smaller one. the samller one was WinMin (A bare bone command prompt version of Vista) which was said at a conference that it was NOT going to be released and later Microsoft revoked that statement and stated that they would release it but then decided not to. Microsoft also stated that they would be building the windows kernel from the ground up because of the accumulated bugs (human and machine errors) and that it would resemble the Unix kernel in many fashions but would completely avoid using any of the code from the Unix kernel. This also means that Windows 7 will be much faster, less buggy (about as buggy as DOS) but it also begs the question if this new kernel will end up going down the same path as XENIX. I for one am hoping that Microsoft will please me on this one.
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