Windows 7 will be multi-touch compatible (check the demo)

Video: Multi-Touch in Windows 7

The TechCrunch blog announced that : At the "All Things Digital" Gates and Ballmer presented the new Windows 7. This version to be released in 2010 is Multi-Touch compatible.

I like that :)

Turn almost anything into a multi-touch interface” with TouchWall

“Turn almost anything into a multi-touch interface for just hundreds of dollars” with TouchWall, the new Microsoft Touch Screen technology!

Just amazing !

Check here a presentation by Microsoft officials:



Check this video from Techcrunch and see how easy it is to use it:





Here is how TechCrunch describes it:

"The TouchWall system presented yesterday consisted of a PC running Vista and Plex, a 4×6 foot plexiglass screen, a rear projector, a infrared camera and the three infrared lasers.

TouhWall consists of three infrared lasers that scan a surface. A camera notes when something breaks through the laser line and feeds that information back to the specific Plex software."

This TouchWall is mores impler then the Surface system also presented by Microsoft a few monthes ago and is a fundamentally simpler mechanical system, and is also significantly cheaper to produce. While Surface retails at around $10,000, the hardware to “turn almost anything into a multi-touch interface” for TouchWall is just “hundreds of dollars”.

What is strange is that : "Microsoft is quick to say that they have no current plans to productize and sell TouchWall."

Can you believe it ? They must be crazy ! Everybody would love to get one of this !

This new technology reminds me that I had already reviewed the much more expensive Multi-Touch Screen by Perceptive Pixel

At Microsoft they are using ... Google to check for Netvibes

I was just checking my stats and I found this referring url:

using http://blogsearch.google.com/to search for Pageonce and Netvibes.

The Fun thing is not the result (well, 1st result is my blog ;) ) but the following:

Domain Name : microsoft.com (commercial)
IP Address : 131.###.# (Microsoft Corp)
ISP : Microsoft Corp
Location: Continent: North America
Country : Unitated States
State : Washington
City : Redmond

At Microsoft they are using ... Google to check for Netvibes ;)