Windows Touch Logo, Coming Soon on PC

Multi-touch controls on the Apple iPhone will soon be built on the Microsoft Windows 7. Windows 7 will receive a Windows Touch brand logo will be the first class to interact with a PC without a mouse and keyboard. Microsoft believes that the multi-touch PC become a popular product in the retail, for the public, on the laptop and the PC kitchen '. Some of the Windows machine is ready for input to the touch and Microsoft are now preparing the program "Touch Windows Logo", as in the logo "Designed for Windows 7", "Intel inside", "nVIDIA graphics".

The program can help provide understanding to the customer will be the Touch is a Windows optimization.

Windows Touch will control is equipped with features such as tap and double tap, drag, scroll, zoom, criticism (flick), and rotation. In engineering Windows 7 blog, the team led the development of Touch, said that the touch will be more knowledgeable as requirenment hardware. According to the blog, the development of Windows Touch is inspired from the Microsoft Surface table computer.

Meanwhile, according to Chris Bernard, one of the Evangelist from Microsoft interface, gesture and touch are two big changes that, showing how to interact with computers that use a GUI (Graphical User Interface) for the first time, and the use of keyboard and mouse. "We make sure the user will get the full experience of Windows 7 is indeed." Said Bernard.

While some applications optimized for touch features such as Internet Explorer and Windows Media Center, but basically there is a touch control levels. "For example, if users try to touch scrolling on the window that does not have touch control, the machine can detect it as a variation scrollbar scroll and then run." As mentioned in the blog. To help distinguish which of the gesture or touch, then Microsoft has been analyzing the sample of the hundreds of thousands of people.

Windows 7 will be the final version is coming soon in 2010, and Windows 7 to RC (Release Candidate) will be tested at the end of May to come. (H_n)

source : beritanet