Windows 7 Touch, Dead On Arrival

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"Ongoing Microsoft hype around its Surface touch technology has suggested that, with Windows 7, a touch-based UI revolution is brewing. Unfortunately, the realities of touch use in the desktop environment and the lack of worthwhile development around the technology are conspiring against the notion of touch ever finding a meaningful place on the desktop, as InfoWorld's Galen Gruman finds out reviewing Windows 7's touch capabilities. 'There's a chicken-and-egg issue to resolve,' Gruman writes. 'Few apps cry out for a touch UI, so Microsoft and Apple can continue to get away with merely dabbling with touch as an occasional mouse-based substitute. It would take one or both of these OS makers to truly touchify their platforms, using common components to pull touch into a great number of apps automatically. Without a clear demand, their incentive to do so doesn't exist.'"
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Well i think apple and microsoft know touch is not going to catch on for the desktop.

I would never use a touch screen, don't see the point. Not to mention touch screens are very expensive.
 
killadoob said:
Well i think apple and microsoft know touch is not going to catch on for the desktop.

I would never use a touch screen, don't see the point. Not to mention touch screens are very expensive.
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Perhaps, but MS hypes Touch as one of the key features of Win 7. In contrast Snow Leopard does not - and multi-touch is only a feature for Apple in the iPhone/iTouch - where it beats the pitiful Windows Mobile implementation hands down.
 
Where does microsoft hype it as a key feature?

They point out it is a features, i have not seen anything suggesting touch is one of the main features peter.
 
PeterCH said:
Perhaps, but MS hypes Touch as one of the key features of Win 7. In contrast Snow Leopard does not - and multi-touch is only a feature for Apple in the iPhone/iTouch - where it beats the pitiful Windows Mobile implementation hands down.
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Ah now he makes it a Microsoft do/Apple do argument. Thought there is an alterior motive hidden somewhere in this thread. Thus again FUD!
 
Only place a touch screen is useful is as a Point of Sales till.

Otherwise I fail to see the use of a touch screen.

We got a touch screen at the office, can use it instead of a mouse - but guess what? We use the mouse more often as it is easier.
 
The_Librarian said:
Only place a touch screen is useful is as a Point of Sales till.

Otherwise I fail to see the use of a touch screen.

We got a touch screen at the office, can use it instead of a mouse - but guess what? We use the mouse more often as it is easier.
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Yup that is the reason it won't catch on.

Peter is this a mac vs microsoft thing again dude? Eish man
 
Windows 7 makes new things possible

Windows Touch

Pair Windows 7 with a touchscreen PC and you won't always need a keyboard or mouse.

What is wrong with this? Touch works on windows 7 maybe go do some research before posting dude. Youtube.com is a wonderful site to view windows touch that works. FFS look at video of the touch screen.

Go look on youtube and then come tell us again WTf you are on about.
 
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The_Librarian said:
Only place a touch screen is useful is as a Point of Sales till.

Otherwise I fail to see the use of a touch screen.

We got a touch screen at the office, can use it instead of a mouse - but guess what? We use the mouse more often as it is easier.
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Industrial HMI devices a plenty, Call centres, customer care, Telephone operators, there is many applications cut out for touch screen support. Its good that Microsoft includes the support as it will make solutions much cheaper and better streamlined and the medical strain on wrists much lower.

No use for Peter tho as it would be on Windows7.
 
killadoob said:
Windows 7 makes new things possible

Windows Touch

Pair Windows 7 with a touchscreen PC and you won't always need a keyboard or mouse.

What is wrong with this? Touch works on windows 7 maybe go do some research before posting dude. Youtube.com is a wonderful site to view windows touch that works.
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LOL - YOU asked where MS touted it as a "main feature" and I explained that MS has it as a "Top Feature".

Touch on desktops is useless - google for "gorilla arm". But on top of it all, MS' implementation of it is really bad (compared to Apple). It's only really beneficial in handheld devices and there iPhone OS beats Win Mobile in this regard hands down.

The other reasons why the implementation is poor is in the link.
 
Peter for someone who does not even want to use windows 7 or have any experience with it, you seem fixated on it.

I think you should cure your curiosity and install it :D

It is not a top feature, it comes up in the feature list, it is not a top feature though. It is just a feature.
 
I am Penguin said:
Industrial HMI devices a plenty, Call centres, customer care, Telephone operators, there is many applications cut out for touch screen support. Its good that Microsoft includes the support as it will make solutions much cheaper and better streamlined and the medical strain on wrists much lower.

No use for Peter tho as it would be on Windows7.
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The bolded part is BS - as is most of the rest.
 
PeterCH said:
The bolded part is BS - as is most of the rest.
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Is that so? What the F...U do you know. I sit with eactly a half dead right hand due to wrist strain using a mouse continually for years. Damaged nerve. The rest cannot be BS, only in your eyes and sm..? brain. Answer each independantly and tell me why it's BS.
 
I am Penguin said:
Is that so? What the F...U do you know. I sit with eactly a half dead right hand due to wrist strain using a mouse continually for years. Damaged nerve. The rest cannot be BS only in your eyes and sm..? brain. Answer each independantly and tell me why it's BS.
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It's BS that you suggest Win 7 touch will avoid arm strain over other touch implementations or even over carpal tunnel syndrome associated with keyboard usage.

Do you have some links to medical clinical trials which show that Win 7 touch is medically beneficial? If you do, I stand corrected, otherwise it's untrue what you said.
 
PeterCH said:
Perhaps, but MS hypes Touch as one of the key features of Win 7. In contrast Snow Leopard does not - and multi-touch is only a feature for Apple in the iPhone/iTouch - where it beats the pitiful Windows Mobile implementation hands down.
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Multi touch is available on the newer macbooks via the trackpad - I dont think its a big jump from there to touch screens.
 
I don't think touch screen is a big jump, i think the cost involved in a touch screen is where the problem may lie.
 
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