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 Microsoft finally demonstrates Windows 7 publicly for the first time and shows off a unique new feature known as Pervasive multi-touch that will be apart of Windows “7″ when it’s completed and ready for gold.
According to Microsoft, touch displays are just part of a movement to evolve how we interact with PCs. “Today almost all [PC] interaction is keyboard-mouse,” Microsoft chairman Bill Gates says. “Over years to come, the role of speech, vision, ink–all of those–will be huge.”
Demonstrating Windows 7’s multi-touch controls, Microsoft corporate vice president Julie Larson-Green showed an electronic version of finger painting called Touchable as well as touch-enable photo organization and mapping applications. She also showed …
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