{"id":3933,"date":"2008-05-28T20:04:00","date_gmt":"2008-05-28T18:04:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2008-05-28T20:04:00","modified_gmt":"2008-05-28T18:04:00","slug":"windows-7-out-in-18-months","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/software\/3933-windows-7-out-in-18-months.html","title":{"rendered":"Windows 7 out in 18 months"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Multi-touch technology is high on Microsoft&#8217;s agenda for the release of Windows 7, Bill Gates has confirmed. Windows 7 is expected to be released within the next 18 months. <\/p>\n<p>Top of the list for Windows 7 is a planned multi-touch interface based on the work of Microsoft&#8217;s Surface team. Using a multi-touch interface users will be able to do things such as zoom in on pictures using two fingers, pan across them or even flip them over.<\/p>\n<p>Gates and Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer showed off some of the planned features of Windows 7 yesterday at the All Things Digital show. <\/p>\n<p>Also based on the multi-touch technology, Gates demonstrated a touch-based paint application that allows users to use all ten fingers to paint on the screen. <\/p>\n<p>For more traditional inputs, Windows 7 is planned to ship with a dock that resembles the Mac OSX application dock more than it does Microsoft&#8217;s traditional bottom panel.<\/p>\n<p>Windows 7 is also expected to include more a more detailed, touch-sensitive mapping application based on Microsoft Virtual Earth and Microsoft Live Maps. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php?t=120511\"><strong>Windows 7  &#8211; give your views<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Multi-touch screen and OSX-like dock the main features, for now<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_threads_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3933","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-software"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3933"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3933"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3933\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3933"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3933"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3933"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}