Ultimately, Touch Will Make the Killer Windows 7 Applications
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Tip: Click here to update all your PC's outdated driversUndoubtedly it is the ecosystem of third-party software solutions that make Windows the platform that it is today, sharing the operating system's success.
And one measure of the success that was a business strategy based on Windows as a platform is the fact that Microsoft has gone beyond the PC to the server, mobile devices and even the Cloud with its operating system. However, what the Windows client has been missing for quite a few releases are Killer applications. In this context, Windows 7 has the greatest chance out of its precursors to act as the platform for a new breed of killer apps based on its touch capabilities.
“With Windows 7, users can directly manipulate their computer environment through multitouch for the first time. This fundamental shift in the end-user experience is similar to that which occurred with the introduction of the mouse. Users spontaneously report that they perceive touch features as an evolution toward a more 'intuitive' way of computing. They expect that touch features will make their daily PC activities easier, faster, and more convenient,” Microsoft revealed.
Early in the life of Windows, Microsoft made a bet on the graphical user interface. Now the Redmond giant is making another by integrating touch computing capabilities by default into Windows 7. Still, the successor of Windows Vista has little chance of making an impact with just hardware support. This situation changes dramatically when applications come into play. Taking advantage of Windows 7's Natural User Interface and touch and gesture based interaction model will mean a greater chance for developers to build a killer application.
“The challenge to manufacturers, developers, and designers is to create both natural and intuitive touch elements in their applications. Touch is at its most artful when there are elements of both. The question is then, what is natural and what is intuitive? Consider 'natural' input to be an onscreen touch action that has a real world equivalent. That is to say manipulating a screen object is identical to what you would do with an object in the physical world,” the software giant added.
Microsoft has had no killer applications with Windows 2000, nor with Windows XP, and certainly not with Windows Vista. And perhaps the Windows 7 touch killer applications will themselves emerge as such in hindsight, and not be NUI revelations. However, Windows 7 is ready to share some of the immense success of other NUI-enabled products such as the iPhone or the Wii console.
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Comments(4)
sounds like a novelty and nothing more. any company investing much in it will end up
eating the big one. touch screens are fine and dandy for cell phones, pda's and such...
but a full sized computer? once the thrill of "hey, i can move a file with my finger"
wears off, people will get a little tired off reaching over thir desk, and all the greasy
finger prints on the screen. cool notion, but impractable.
well said, skully - my arm gets tired just thinking about it. yes, even the three
stooges would have more brains than to put this silly notion into production.
it's a nice idea, but how are they going to get the touchscreen displays mainstream?
unless they provided some sort of universal touchscreen addon,
there's no way
it'd be enough for me to ditch my only 3 year old $200 mouse, and $1300 24 inch dell
screen,
for a much smaller and more expensive screen that just has touch technology.
hell i'd be reluctant to even if it was cheaper / bigger.
until someone
comes up with a way to use the current screens, i don't see anyone but businesses
benefiting from this.
atm i can move my mouse with the trackir 4 pro.. it's not very
practical but it's along the lines of where it needs to be.. some sort of
wireless/ir/anything that can be used independently.
ms need to stop copying
apple by using things like multi-touch in unconventional ways and dictating how we
interact with things..
either get back to the old ways or come up with something
completely different.
vista currently can't natively stretch the taskbar across two screens (like xp and
98)...but forget about that...lets make the new os work with fingers. fingers...what a
hellacious quantum leap in pc technology! will you be denied access moving an icon to the
region of jr's peanut butter smudge? i can see it now...back in the win95 days, people
thought they could make a slow or hung app respond faster if they repeated tapped on a
keyboard key....will win7 respond faster if you rap on the monitor?
ms should lay low
on the eycandy-gimmicks (i know you have to have some to appeal to users wanting a fresh
look)and work harder on the guts. cut boot up/shutdown time in half. stop making us jump
through 26 hoops to change or delete a certain file. make a spam filter that actually
works. do something o-r-i-g-i-n-a-l....stop thinking you have to mimic every
feature/gimmick apple puts out. hell, if you are that envious of apple's "kewlness"
factor...buy them out...you have the money. just get back to the business of improving
the os instead of making it "kewler".
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Sounds like the next Web TV....
By Skully on 13.11.2008 - 14:11