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The multi-touch controls familiar to Apple iPhone users will be built-in to Microsoft's Windows 7.
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[Br0ken]

Hmm, but how long until large touchscreen's with good resolutions become affordable?

[Naaktgeboren]

Pretty pointless to be honest, lets face it, items like the Ipod Touch and co use touch screen as an attempt to emulate the functionality of a PC, obviously, you cannot carry around a mouse in your pocket.

I cannot understand just who would find this useful, using a mouse is quick and intuitive. Who would want to be sitting that close to a screen anyway.

Stupid idea

[mikelj]

Just think of all those fingerprints on your PC monitor

[Del]

It'll be great for Media Centres with touch screens.

Del

[Brad8988]

Could be useful on lappys.

[SeanT]

It'll be a dream in venues / exhibitions / lecture theatres, where there's a budget for a proper tablet panel or interactive touchscreen, looking forward to getting my hands on it, as it were. It'll be a real shame if they only include it in the ultimate version and thus make their larger customers pay extra for it / have licensing grief...

[eric pisch]

Originally Posted by Brad8988

Could be useful on lappys.

will be the ultimate for RTS games

you can already get 80" interative touch screen white boards

They have turned smaller ones into tables

YouTube - Warcraft 3 -- Audio and Touch Screen

it looks awesome, and as the MS one demos just do rear projection from the floor

heres MS one thats coming soon

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rKgU6ubBgJA

and this gives a good idea of where its going

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=89sz8ExZndc

[Synchro]

Originally Posted by Del

It'll be great for Media Centres with touch screens.

Del

I'll be having one in my kitchen, thats for sure ;-)