Comments on: Multi-touch in Windows 7 – a Useless Feature

By: WordPlop

WordPlop — Wed, 19 Aug 2009 00:34:13 +0000

@ Alex:

I am simply pointing out that there will be very limited uses for multi-touch and a very small percentage of windows users will be able to take advantage of it. The technology itself is good. However, I don’t see this as really advancing, because a good mouse or touchpad is much better than touching the screen. Your fingers will never be as precise. So while this is good new tech, I don’t see it as an advancement in interface, at least with home computers.

By: Alex

Alex — Tue, 18 Aug 2009 23:58:05 +0000

Because of people like you technology never advances, your negativism and your way of imposing your personal taste by doing comments without thinking about the rest of the people simply helps brain wash people and force them to be negative as yourself.

By: Dirty Don

Dirty Don — Mon, 05 Jan 2009 12:48:51 +0000

This won’t even be useful for serious graphic artists. Way to fail Microsoft. This is from someone who actually owns both a tablet PC and a WACOM tablet. The worst part of that demo was the dissonance between finger movement and feedback. If you’re going to unveil your next bread and butter product you can at least use decent hardware to showcase it on.

The only real application I can think of are games, and no AAA game publisher is going to spend millions of dollars creating a game for such a tiny demographic.

And it’s utter not udder.

Moo.

By: Dail Fritters (Corn)

Dail Fritters (Corn) — Thu, 29 May 2008 13:27:58 +0000

This technology fails because looking at a screen with finger smudges is no good. Pus it’s useless. Udder fail.

By: Loren Heiny

Loren Heiny — Wed, 28 May 2008 05:43:47 +0000

I think you’d agree that where this technology makes sense it’s not a bad thing: like very small displays such as an iPhone, horizontal displays (like slate Tablet PCs on a table or Microsoft Surface) where there are multiple people using and touching the display at the same time, and very large whiteboard displays and the like where more than one person might be using them at a time. I think you’ll also find that once you have touch or stylus support on your computer and applications and you start using them, then you’ll want to be able to use touch more often. Yeah, many people can live without these features. Look at Twitter, for instance, it’s text only and is doing quite well. I personally, want more.

Whether it’s a good idea for a company to release products with new ways of doing things such as with handwriting recognition, speech recognition, multi-touch in Windows 7 or Surface or TouchWall, I guess different people will disagree.

By: Incremental Blogger » Blog Archive » Windows 7 to support multi-touch

Incremental Blogger » Blog Archive » Windows 7 to support multi-touch — Wed, 28 May 2008 05:36:58 +0000

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