Ultimately, Touch Will Make the Killer Windows 7 Applications
Undoubtedly it is the ecosystem of third-party software solutions that make Windows the platform that it is today, sharing the operating system's success.
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12.11.2008 Leaked Best-Buy Inventory Screens - Multi-Touch MacBook Pros on the Way?
Following reports that three new MacBook Pro models had been spotted in Best Buy's inventory, screenshots are now available to back that story up.
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3.2.2008 Uxtheme Multi-patcher 6.0
Uxtheme Multi-patcher will allow you to use any 3rd party msstyle theme on Windows XP/SP1/SP2 or Windows Server 2003 (with Themes enabled) just by patching the uxtheme.dll (dynamic link library).
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11.7.2008 Ballmer: Microsoft must be "multi-core"
CEO says Microsoft must continue to build out businesses in markets other companies have already created.
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28.7.2006 YouTube Introduces Multi-Video Uploading
YouTube is a website for people to communicate more efficiently with video by sharing, commenting on, and viewing videos.
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11.11.2007 Windows 7 Tasksbar Multi-Monitor Support
Microsoft is gearing up to detail the evolution of the Windows client graphical user interface, in just one month, at the Professional Developers Conference 2008, and then at the Windows Hardware Engineering Conference 2008.
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30.9.2008 Windows Vista: Multi-Version Investments in Group Policy
As it turns out, the most "killer application" that utilized Active Directory back in 2000 was as the identity store for Exchange Server.
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15.12.2006 Windows 7 Touch
By now you should have seen the news about the new Windows 7 UI and touch based advances. If not then please checkout our introducing the Windows 7 UI article.
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29.10.2008 Is Plurk the Twitter killer?
With a lot of focus on social media sites these days one of the biggest newcomers that is becoming more and more popular is Twitter.
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5.6.2008 Malware Is the No. 1 Killer of Windows Explorer
Windows crashes and blue screen have become without a doubt the stuff of popular culture, with Microsoft's operating system being derided, criticized and mocked for its luxuriant variety of issues, independent
of the actual version of the platform.
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21.5.2008 Touch Computing Beyond Vista and Windows 7
Microsoft's first and only public demonstration of Windows 7, the next iteration of the Windows client, delivered at the end of May 2008, offers the first consistent peek at the touch computing feature of the operating system.
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4.8.2008 Is Windows 7 the Linux-netbook killer?
When it comes to PCs and laptops, Microsoft had little to fear with Linux as much as it does the Mac. But now the new threat to Windows comes in the form of 'netbooks' - lightweight, low-cost laptops that typically use Intel's low-powered Atom processor and don't come with substantial amounts of RAM or powerful graphics processors.
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24.12.2008 Microsoft Halting Work on "Photoshop Killer"?
According to ZDNet, Microsoft is halting production work on software that had been described as a serious contender to Adobe Photoshop. Previously code named Acrylic, the software was released as a development preview last year, and is currently available for download from Microsoft (see link below).
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13.3.2006 Apple Confirms Touch-Screen iPod?
Apple may have slipped up and given the first public confirmation of the long-rumored touch-screen iPod. In a PDF document intended for developers discussing the iPod notes feature, the Cupertino, Calif. company references such a device.
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2.11.2006 Apple Officially Announces New iPod Touch
Apple has officially announced the launch of its new second generation iPod touch, which features sleek new design, integrated volume control buttons, built-in speaker for casual listening, built-in wireless support for Nike + iPod, Apples revolutionary Multi-Touch user interface, built-in accelerometer as well as other advanced sensors, working with new iTunes 8 Genius feature that allows consumers to create playlists automatically while on the go.
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11.9.2008 Google Android, a Windows 7 netbook killer?
Rumours are spreading that Google is in talks with leading netbook producers to offer a version of Android in anticipation of competing with Microsoft's own Windows 7, an operating system designed to be flexible enough to target everything from the basic netbook market to high-end gaming PCs.
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7.4.2009 Microsoft Touch Pack for Windows 7 revealed
One of the features that was initially shown off about Windows 7 was the touch capability; that talk seems to have died down lately, amongst the beta and RC releases
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27.5.2009 How to Update iPod Touch to 3.0 Firmware For Free
Apple is all set to release iPhone & iPod Touch Firmware 3.0. OS 3.0 is second major firmware update for iPhone & iPod touch. iPhone 2G, 3G users are allowed to have free upgrade to iPhone firmware 3.0, however iPod touch users need pay $9.95 to upgrade to OS 3.0.
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17.6.2009 Windows 7 touch comes to life at PDC 2009
All week long, Neowin is live at PDC09 and we found some interesting demos of the future of multi-touch screens.
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17.11.2009 Will My Applications Work on Windows Vista?
One of the big concerns of anyone considering moving to Windows Vista is? How many of my applications will work on Windows Vista?
We have spent a lot of time trying to answer that very question for our company so I will share with you some of the common problem areas we found for applications to help give you an idea of what applications might have problems for you.
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8.1.2006 Windows 7 Context-Aware Applications
According to Microsoft, Windows 7, the successor of Windows Vista, will be designed to support context-aware applications. The Redmond giant is even cooking an application programming interface to enable the development of context-aware programs for the next iteration of Windows.
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27.9.2008 Zune HD applications confirmed
It's been debated for some time as to whether or not the Zune HD will feature apps, similar to its competitor, Apple's iPod touch; many people expected the more logical solution, that it would, though it had yet to be confirmed by Microsoft itself.
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23.8.2009 Silverlight 2, Microsoft's Flash Killer, Gets DRM, Just Like Vista
Microsoft's Flash killer, Silverlight, is on track to get digital rights management just like the company's latest Windows client, Windows Vista. Microsoft has faced a barrage of criticism over the content protection capabilities in Vista, and the subject is bound to yet again come into play with Silverlight 2.
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14.4.2008 Microsoft's Flash Killer, Silverlight 2, Released to Web
Silverlight 2, the next step in the evolution of Microsoft's Adobe Flash killer, has been released to web. As Silverlight 2 has reached the RTW milestone, the Redmond giant announced that downloads would only go live on October 14, 2008.
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13.10.2008 G.E. puts 500GB on a disc - Blu-ray killer?
General Electric says its researchers have achieved a breakthrough in digital storage technology that will allow standard-size discs to hold the equivalent of 100 DVDs.
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27.4.2009 Attackers switching to applications, media players
Online criminals shifted their attacks in 2005 from operating systems such as Windows to media players and software programs, according to a study released Tuesday.
Among the software programs under attack are antivirus software, according to the SANS Institute, a nonprofit research group based in Bethesda, Md.
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22.11.2005 Only 104 Applications Certified for Windows Vista
Microsoft on Wednesday posted a page listing 787 applications that have been tested on Windows Vista, thus far only 104 applications have received certification, most of them being Microsoft's own applications along with companies like Ahead, Cyberlink and Trend Micro to name a few.
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22.2.2007 TrayIt - Keep Running Applications Under System Tray
Release candidate for Version 4 of TrayIt! is finally out. It has an improved graphical interface and usability and also supports a lot of new features like window grouping, and support for SDI-type application like MS Excel or PowerPoint.
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2.3.2009 Top 10 Absolute Worst Windows Applications in 2007
Think Windows Vista is bad? Well, the fact of the matter is that is largely a subjective perspective that is little open to dispute. However, when it comes down to what users can integrate with the operating system, the situation is a tad more severe.
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5.11.2007 Microsoft starts Windows Vista Media Center Beta applications
Microsoft recently began surveying current beta testers of Windows Vista to see which testers qualify for an upcoming Windows Vista Media Center Beta. The survey, which only current Vista testers can take, is located at Microsoft Connect.
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Notebook players paying close attention to multi-touch
Hewlett-Packard (HP) is planning to stir up the touch panel notebook market with multi-touch technology at the end of this year, and with Windows 7,
which according to Microsoft will include features to take advantage of multi-touch capabilities, on the horizon, notebook industry players are paying
close attention to the development of multi-touch technologies.
Touch panel tablet PCs are mostly niche market products currently and
usually single-touch only due to costs and limited software support. However, notebook industry players believe multi-touch has the potential to take
off in the mainstream market thanks to handset devices such as the iPhone. Windows 7 will also be key for promoting multi-touch since it enables
multi-touch interfaces as part of the Windows operating system, the sources noted.
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17.10.2008How To Develop Multi-Touch Apps for Windows 7 - Video
It goes without saying that for multi-touch to be successful in Windows 7 and beyond, there will have to be healthy ecosystem of applications that
enable people to use their computer in ways they have not even dreamt of yet. It will have to go beyond zooming and panning.
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30.10.2008For Mac OS or Windows? Multi-touch displays in production
According to reports from Stuff.tv, following a recent visit to one of LG's display factories, it appears that LG is preparing to ship multi-touch
screens. There are rumors arising that the displays are for Apple and a future multi-touch iMac. Apple has stated quite clearly that multi-touch will
not be a feature available on their desktop or notebook line in the near future, yet the rumor mill still brewed and with the discovery of these LG
screens, is brewing further. It is also possible that these displays could be LCDs for the upcoming Windows 7 release or merely displays for
manufacturers other than Apple.
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28.11.2008Windows 7 multi-touch LCD demonstrated
Multi-touch is one of the big technology trends these days: Bill gates recently demonstrated a display integrating multi-touch at the recent D6
conference and unfortunately received little more than lukewarm feedback. Albatron is one of the first companies demonstrating what appears to be a
production ready multi-touch device: Having played with the LCD at Computex, we have to say that we are impressed.
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04.06.2008Apple awarded multi-touch patent
Apple has been awarded a patent protecting their touch screen device, method, and graphical user interface for determining commands by applying
heuristics. Commonly used in the iPhone, this protects the method of multi touch and could cause issues for devices such as the recently announced
Palm Pre and Microsoft's Surface machines. According to World of Apple the patent awarded was number 7,479,949 on January 20, 2009. Originally
applied for on April 11, 2008, the patent covers multi-touch and all associated gestures such as pinch, swipe and rotation. Image courtesy of Mac
Rumors Steve Jobs is listed as one of the inventors in the patent. Do you think this will cause issues for multi touch devices going forward?
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27.01.2009Introducing the Microsoft Touch Pack for Windows 7
At Wall Street Journal's D: All Things Digital conference
about a year ago today, Julie
Larson-Green first introduced Walt Mossberg to Windows 7 and its multi-touch capabilities, which we call Windows Touch. While weve been working on
bringing natural user interface to you in many Microsoft products, we first introduced multi-touch in
Microsoft Surface. Since then, the Windows and Surface development teams have been collaborating
closely on bringing multi-touch to Windows, and last year demoed a few applications they created to run on Windows 7. Today, we thought it would be
fitting on this anniversary of first talking about Windows Touch to introduce the Microsoft Touch Pack for Windows 7.
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28.05.2009Microsoft Research demonstrates laptop-compatible multi-touch displays
The word of 2007 is
"multi-touch". Its
everywhere, from the iPhone to
the Microsoft Surface. We
werent happy with just one
finger on the touch-sensitive
screens, we wanted to put all
10 fingers and probably some
toes on too, and multi-touch
was born.
(Credit: Long Zheng
from
istartedsome
thing.com)
The idea of having a
multi-touch-capable laptop
sounds pretty sweet, but of
course no one would want to
carry a cathode-ray-tube in
their backpack, so how do you
come up with a solution for a
screen less than an inch
thick? Microsoft Research
Cambridges Steve Hodges might
have the answer...
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20.06.2007Apple patent highlights multi-touch Nano wheels
News posted on AppleInsider's website today draws attention to the possibility of a new generation of multi-touch iPods. This exciting news was
discovered by the people at AppleInsider who claim to have discovered a recent patent filing by the designers at Apple detailing the detection of:
"input gestures that traverse the center of the scroll wheel and to detect multi-touch input." The possibility of this new fifth-generation Nano
will be the first to detect multi-touch gestures through its new, and slightly smaller click wheel and may also have an added extra in the form of a
camera. AppleInsider expects this to be released sometime this Autumn.
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05.06.2009Windows 7 multi-touch SDK being readied for PDC in October
As details continue to emerge about Microsoft's evidently well-made plans for its next operating system, we learn that full documentation for how
multi-touch capabilities will work in Windows, will be ready for demonstration by this fall...
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29.05.2008Microsoft Touch Pack for Windows 7 revealed
One of the features that was initially shown off about Windows 7 was the touch capability; that talk seems to have died down lately, amongst the beta
and RC releases, but an announcement today has brought it back into the limelight. A post over at the Windows Team blog has just revealed the
Microsoft Touch Pack for Windows 7. This pack brings a range of touch-friendly applications, of which we will detail below. Microsoft Surface Globe:
The first of these applications is called Microsoft Surface Globe. This, as you can imagine, is a multi-touch capable globe (think Google Earth) that
uses the Virtual Earth 3D engine to display a rotatable 3D version of the world.
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28.05.2009Android's lack of multi-touch due to Apple?
Google's move into the mobile market space gave the consumer another choice for a mobile platform. It's is also no secret that Apple and
Google work closely together on products and according to one source Apple told Google to not include multi-touch on its Android platform. While it
would be easy to ignore this "source" there seems to be quite a bit of credibility to the matter. Firstly, the G1 and Android do support
multi-touch; if the phone has the hardware and software backing for the technology why wouldn't they include it? The source claims that Apple
asked Google to forgo including the technology.
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10.02.2009HP takes multi-touch to notebooks with TouchSmart tx2
HP has today announced the TouchSmart tx2 - a notebook that it's claiming is the world's first to feature a multi-touch screen.
The TouchSmart tx2 takes the multi-touch technology found in HP's TouchSmart desktops, along with its custom HP MediaSmart software, and promises
to deliver digital content at the touch of a finger.
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19.11.2008Apple adds new CPUs, Multi-Touch trackpad to MacBook Pro
Apple on Tuesday updated its entire laptop line with faster processors, more storage and memory, along with adding its Multi-Touch trackpad to the
MacBook Pro...
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26.02.2008Microsoft Surface Partner Program Offers QuickStart to Creating Microsoft Surface Applications
New partner program is aimed at expanding ecosystem for partners and developers working with Microsoft Surface, its multi-touch, multi-user computer...
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13.07.2009Microsoft touts Touchless SDK
Microsoft Office Labs
released
Tuesday its Touchless SDK for developers to experiment with multi-touch technology.
With the SDK, developers can build
multi-touch applications that use a color marker and webcam for input. Utilizing the webcam, applications can track the location and size of the color
marker to enable multi-touch functionality without touching a surface, according to Microsoft.
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08.10.2008First multi-touch tablet from Toshiba available today
Toshiba made available today its 9th generation M700 tablet PC, the current highest-end tablet PC offered by the company, and the first to offer
multi-touch capability...
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11.12.2007MS confirms Windows Mobile 7 multi-touch, iPhone rivalry
Microsoft has confirmed in a
preview of Windows Mobile 6.5 that version 7 of the mobile OS will include multi-touch and will be targeted at the same high-end
market as Apple's iPhone or most current Android phones. The company promises to the
Inquirer that multi-touch will be a core feature of
Windows Mobile 7 and that many of the experiences of competing phones will be "knocked in the different realm" of Microsoft's new platform.
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03.08.2009BumpTop Gets Amazing-Looking Multi-Touch on Windows 7
BumpTop, the 3D desktop overlay we've drooled over since prototype, has added multi-touch support for Windows 7 and hardware that supports it. It's
a logical step, and it makes a neat actual-desktop-as-desktop metaphor seem truly real.
The video really says it all, but
BumpTop's blog details the specific finger actions you can undertake with BumpTop running on Windows 7. Here's a small sampling...
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01.10.2009Windows 7 will support multi-touch
Last night at the
WSJ's All Things Digital conference, Microsoft revealed what Steve
Ballmer called "the smallest snippet" of Windows 7 - multi-touch support.
The multi-touch support is made possible through technology
developed by the Microsoft Surface team; with some of the touch-oriented apps that were presented seeming to closely resemble what we've seen of
Surface to date. Besides this, a few other minor changes can be seen, such as a reworked taskbar.
Apparently, Microsoft are planning to
rework Seven's interface with a seamless multi-touch experience in mind.
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28.05.2008Philips to Unveil 52-inch Multi-Touch LCD at CES
LG.Philips LCD is planning to unveil a 52-inch multi-touch LCD (liquid crystal display) at next week's Consumer Electronics Show, it said Monday.
The screen is 5-inches larger than one it recently showed in Japan and is the largest display of its type in the world, the company said.
Multi-touch screens differ from conventional touchpanels because they allow input from more than one spot on the screen so, for example, an
image can be manipulated from opposite corners. Probably the most famous current example of the technology is the display on Apple's hit iPhone and
iPod Touch devices.
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