Bill Gates was pretty obsessed with designing a touch screen computer,
but I think he missed the point which is appropriate use of technology.
Touch screen makes sense on smaller devices--PDA, iPhone, field-work,
and for drawing tablets--but not necessarily for a small or full sized
notebook.
I used a MacBook Air yesterday. My friend [multiplatform programmer] who
owns it says he hasn't used a mouse since he got the MBA. The technology
that made him switch [notebooks and OS] and dump the mouse is a
combination of small software and hardware incorporated in the touchpad
that reads finger movements and interprets them to be various actions on
the screen. Different combinations of one, two and/or three fingers
create different responses. Tapping or pinching and separating the
fingers, sweeping the fingers across the pad can change type or object
size, or whatever you have programmed it to do on the display. All this
happens without getting fingerprints on the screen.
That is the iPhone technology transferred appropriately to a notebook,
not making the entire screen sensitive to touch--and smears.
Vista with multi-touch will still suck because it's still Vista.
Betty
>Most thorough news agencies are citing MS's surface, not the iphone for
>where MS is going with windows 7. They were released very close
>together..technically I think surface was first.
Watching my local Fox newscast their headline was: "Love the iPhone?
Microsoft is planning to bring it to your desktop."
So I guess I'm not the only one reading the story this way -- either that
or Fox is monitoring our list discussion.
http://crn.com/software/208400716
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