What Is Windows Multi Touch & Gestures

For years Microsoft has been investing in many forms of natural input in order to simplify the way people interact with their PC's and devices.

The advent of the original Windows graphical user interface forever changed the way people used their PC's.

Today, advances in pen and handwriting technology in Windows Vista offers students a natural and intuitive way to capture searchable notes and diagrams in the classroom. Others are using this technology to quietly capture pen based notes during meetings.

Speech recognition, something which was once considered science fiction, is enabling many Windows Vista users to see, hear, and use their computers for the very first time.

Touch is quickly becoming a common way of directly interacting with software and devices. Touch-enabled surfaces are popping up everywhere including laptop touch pads, cell phones, remote controls, GPS devices, and more. What becomes even more compelling is when this experience is delivered to the PC - on a wide variety of Windows notebooks, in all-in-one PC's, as well as in external monitors. In working with our broad ecosystem of hardware and software manufactures, we're excited to be showing some of the great work and investments we are working on in Windows 7. (Excerpt from Windows Vista Blog..)

Microsoft's goal is to enable "most applications," out of the box with simple "pinch" and "zoom" multi touch gestures on day one of the Windows 7 launch in 2009. Individual applications can then be optimized, by the user, to improve performance and offer a greater degree of touch and multi touch control too.

There is even a new Paint and Calculator in Windows 7!

Take A Peak At Multi Touch Gestures In Windows 7

VIDEO: Julie Larson Green, Microsoft Corporate Vice President, Multi-Touch in Windows 7 Demo @ PDC 2008 Keynote Speech  

VIDEO: Touch Maps in Windows 7.  

VIDEO: Gesture demo in Windows 7 using a new Photo Application! 

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