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POPSNext Microsoft operating system has touch controls Multi-touch software builds on existing capabilities Microsoft has introduced in recent years including Surface, for interacting with large tabletop computer displays, TouchWall for mounted screens and Tablet PCs for touch-screen notebooks. In a demonstration of touch-screen capabilities to be offered in Windows 7, Microsoft showed a new application called "Touchable Paint" that lets a user paint with their fingers, as well as software to organize photos or navigate maps by touch. "It is not about complete replacement of the mouse," Julie Larson-Green, Microsoft's corporate vice president in charge of Windows Experience Program Management, said in a first-time demonstration of multi-touch features to run inside Windows
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POPSOne day, your computer will be a big-ass table When pigs fly it will be. I don't know about you, but I'd have to clear a mound of crap off any table in my house before I could see the screen, much less use it as a computer. I use my tables to put stuff on, whether it's books and magazines, coffee cups, brunch, my gym gear, my remote control, or very often, my feet. Why, sometimes you can even find my laptop sitting on my coffee table, so why would I want to remove my laptop so I could use Microsoft Surface? And while I think I'd enjoy dragging stuff around the coffee table with flicks of my fingers, I know my neck and shoulders wouldn't enjoy it for long. Especially when I already have a perfectly good flatscreen already on the wall in front of me. I don't need to go stand in front of it and touch it either - I don't like fingerprints and I already have an input device for it that I've spent the last thirty years learning to use - my remote control. So I'm with sarcasticgamer.com when
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POPSVista vs XP I've noticed my new Vista pc is locking up during game and media play. Hell, its a media center pc. My xp media center pc was much more stable. I'm looking for performance tweeks. I have to turn my game graphics and sound waaay down to play them. Movies lock up and then try to catchup when they resume.
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POPSMicrosoft's New Surface Computer Makes Computing Touchable Microsoft has introduced its new Surface PC, a touchable PC residing in a table. Multiple people can use their hands to move around objects on the table's surface, resizing photographs, moving files from wifi devices placed on the table's surface, and generally using simple hands-on techniques to manipulate data and devices. It takes intuitive computing to the next level. See the video demonstration at http://link.brightcove.com/services/link/bcpid271552687/bctid933742930
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POPSMicrosoft's Coffee-Table of the future. Microsoft has longer-term designs on schools and, likely three to five years out, the home. "We're starting at the high end, sort of like you'd think about big flat-screen displays or even the initial personal computer," Gates told USA TODAY. "But there are ways that the hardware cost of this will come down very dramatically." For now, the rough cost of each installation is $5,000 to $10,000.
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