[pchelpers] News: Microsoft demos 'touch Windows'

  By Maggie Shiels
Technology reporter, BBC News, in Silicon Valley

Microsoft's next operating system (OS) will come with multi-touch 
features as an alternative to the mouse.

It is hoped the successor will have a better reception than the 
much-maligned Vista OS, released last year.

Scheduled for release in 2010, the new fingertip interface lets users 
enlarge and shrink photos, trace routes on maps, paint pictures or play 
the piano.

"The way you interact with the system will change dramatically," said 
Microsoft chairman Bill Gates.

Speaking at the All Things Digital conference in San Diego, Mr Gates 
said Windows 7 would incorporate new forms of communication and 
interaction.

More here:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/7422924.stm
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