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 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 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 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 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 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, Apple’s 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 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 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 iPod Touch - the New Flagship iPod
9to5mac, has some spy shots for the new iPod! It has the same form factor as the iPhone with some notable exceptions.
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24.8.2007 Vista SP1, and then Windows 7, Windows 8 and Non-Windows Midori
2008 saw the release of Windows Vista Service Pack 1, Windows XP Service Pack 3 and Windows Server 2008, but Microsoft's journey on the Windows path is far from over.
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5.8.2008 Windows 7 RC Brings Windows XP Mode Beta and Windows Virtual PC Beta
The Release Candidate of Windows 7 will bring with it the first Beta development milestones for Windows XP Mode and Windows Virtual PC.
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29.4.2009 Windows Reactivator 2.0 - Backup & Restore Activation Status of Windows XP with Windows Reactivator
Every time you reinstall your windows XP you need to reactivate it online using your product key & worst if you lost your Windows XP product key.
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3.6.2009 Windows Vista SP1 vs. Windows Vista RTM vs. Windows XP SP2
Feb 26th, 2008. Principled Technologies has released two Microsoft commissioned reports on Windows Vista SP1 performance. In these tests, Principled Technologies measured responsiveness of Windows Vista SP1 vs. Windows Vista RTM vs. Windows XP SP2 when performing a set of common business and home tasks.
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28.2.2008 Windows 7, Windows 8, Windows 9 – 1 Billion and Counting
Is Windows dead? Or, at least, is this the beginning of the end for Microsoft's proprietary operating system?
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15.9.2008 Week in Microsoft: Windows 7, Windows 8, Windows 9
This week in Microsoft, we covered 128-bit support possibly coming to Windows 8 and Windows 9, Windows 7, Windows Mobile 6.5, Bill Gates, Office 2010 Starter, Microsoft MVP status, Windows Live Hotmail, the EU, and Microsoft Security Essentials.
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10.10.2009 Windows Vista Build 5231 and Windows Media Player 11 Leaks!
Windows Vista Build 5231 has leaked to the web. The new build is said to include Windows Media Player 11 included. View the screenshots below! This is a Main branch build that was released on September 12th, 2005 at 8:20PM.
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Windows Vista SP1 and Windows XP SP3: Official Release Dates
A French website, PC Inpact, has posted the official Microsoft product change request forms for Vista SP1 and Windows XP SP3.
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6.2.2008 Download Free Windows Vista and Windows XP SP2 Straight from Microsoft
Via the Internet Explorer Application Compatibility VPC Image. That's right! Microsoft is offering access to free downloads of Windows Vista and Windows XP SP2.
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6.3.2008 Windows Vista SP1 outperforms Windows XP SP2 in file copy
"Its interesting that people seem to think that Vista under performs in every area of the system which is quite an incorrect perception.
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27.5.2008 Windows Fiji Has RTMd as Windows Media Center TV Pack 2008
Microsoft officially confirmed that Windows Fiji has been released to manufacturing.
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18.7.2008 Windows 7 Beta Doesn't Play Nice with Windows Azure Cloud OS Tools
The promise for Windows 7 is that it will deliver an evolution when it will come down to stretching into the Cloud compared to its precursor, Windows Vista.
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16.1.2009 Internet Explorer 8 MUI packs for Windows XP, Windows Server 03
As detailed in our previous blog post, the following Internet Explorer MUI packs shipped today.
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17.5.2009 Windows Home Server Power Pack 3 Beta adds Windows 7 support
Microsoft announced the release of Windows Home Server Power Pack 3 Beta, along with news that it will feature Windows 7 support.
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20.7.2009 Check for RAM Error or Defect in Windows 7 and Vista with Windows Memory Diagnostic
Memory or RAM is one of the most important electronic hardware component on a computer systems, not only in term of speed or clock frequency and size, but also the reliability of hardware ecosystem of the RAM sticks or memory modules and its subsystem.
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1.10.2009 The Microsoft Windows NT 4.0 and Windows 98 Threat Mitigation Guide
Well, Microsoft still puts effort in old Windows versions...
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31.3.2006 Windows Vista comes with 19,500 drivers on DVD – more on Windows Update
Ever needed to find a driver for a product and wished Windows would either just have the driver in it, or that their Windows Update service could provide it? With Vista, it can – and new features and updates will be forthcoming too. It’s about time!
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20.11.2006 Windows XP Home No Longer Qualifies for Windows Vista Upgrades
Windows XP Home Edition no longer qualifies for Windows Vista Business Upgrade or Upgrade + SA through Volume Licensing.
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17.10.2007 Microsoft Offers a Complex Windows Vista vs. Windows XP Perspective
A new standard of security is an integer aspect of the evolution puzzle represented by the move from Windows XP to Windows Vista.
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3.11.2007 Windows XP SP3 to Drop Concomitantly with Windows Vista SP1?
Yes, it's time for every Windows user's favorite obsession: Windows XP Service Pack 3. The third and final service pack for Windows XP has been quite elusive for the past three years.
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25.11.2007Notebook 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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17.10.2008HTC Touch Pro 2 now available from T-Mobile
Starting today, T-Mobile customers will be able to get their hands on the long-awaited HTC Touch Pro 2 smart phone. Shipping with Windows Mobile 6.1
from Microsoft and HTC's Touch Flo 3D interface, the Touch Pro 2 is the most powerful Windows Mobile phone available from T-Mobile. The device
will be upgradable to Windows Mobile 6.5 later on this year, which will add many more finger-friendly features and enhance the overall user
experience.
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12.08.2009Microsoft 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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28.05.2009HTC unveils Touch Pro2 And Touch Diamond2
HTC unveiled two of its latest smartphones, the HTC Touch Diamond2 and HTC Touch Pro2 at the Mobile World Congress, in Barcelona. HTC Touch Diamond2
is targeted towards broad consumer audience looking for the professional benefits of a smartphone without sacrificing size, looks or functionality,
while the HTC Touch Pro2 is targeted towards business consumers.
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17.02.2009Introducing 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 śanniversaryť of first talking about Windows Touch to introduce the Microsoft Touch Pack for Windows 7.
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28.05.2009HTC Touch Dual: iClone or Genius?
Today, HTC announced a new Windows Mobile 6-equipped touch screen smart device. The HTC Touch Dual is the latest in the company's line of TouchFLO
devices, and will be available in Europe later this month. It may look familliar...
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02.10.2007Can a touch-screen interface turn Windows around?
It's no secret that Windows Vista hasn't seen the warm reception Microsoft had hoped. With Windows 7, the company is placing its bets on a
multi-touch interface -- like the iPhone UI for PCs. Could it change the public mood?..
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28.05.2008Windows 7 Touch and Multitouch Video Walkthrough
The basic touch and multitouch actions found native to Windows 7 are nothing to oooh and ahhh over, but there are a lot of little intuitive moves and
conveniences that work well, even in the beta stage. More importantly, developers in and out of Microsoft are now getting all touchy, and we plan to
track that pretty closely. But first, here's the starter menu of touch and multitouch maneuvers...
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02.02.2009For 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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28.11.2008Can a touch-screen interface turn around Windows?
It's no secret that Windows Vista hasn't seen the warm reception Microsoft had hoped. With Windows 7, the company is placing its bets on a
multi-touch interface -- like the iPhone UI for PCs -- but can it turn things around?..
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28.05.2008Touching Windows 7
Steven Sinfosky: Weve come a long way in engineering Windows 7 since we first provided an engineering preview of Windows 7 and the work we are doing
to support the touch interface paradigm back at the
D: All Things Digital conference. We chose to kick-off the discussion
about engineering Windows 7 with touch scenarios because we know this is a long-lead effort that requires work across the full ecosystem to fully
realize the benefit. For Windows 7, touch support is engineered by building on our advances in input technology we began with the TabletPC work
on Windows XP...
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26.03.2009Windows 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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29.05.2008How 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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30.10.2008HTC Touch: a Windows Mobile-based iPhone competitor
There is quite a bit
of excitement brewing around
the upcoming June 29th Apple
iPhone availability, but today
HTC just took a bit of wind
out of the Apple sails with
the announcement and immediate
availability (at least in
London) of the HTC Touch.
HTC is the leading Windows
Mobile provider and the Touch
integrates their new
innovative TouchFLO touch
screen technology that lets
you sweep your finger across
the display to launch an
animated, 3D interface that
allows you quick and easy
access to key elements of the
device. T
he HTC
Touch is targeted to the
general consumer who just
wants a device that works
simply and easily and not the
mobile enthusiast who wants to
deal with all the technical,
and sometimes complicated,
interface elements found in
Windows Mobile. The 3D
interface can be launched at
any time on the HTC Touch and
gives you quick access to
three screens for Contacts,
Media, and Applications.
TouchFLO also lets you scroll
and browse websites,
documents, messages, and
contact lists...
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05.06.2007Asustek plans to launch touch panel notebooks in 1H09
Asustek Computer is planning to launch notebooks featuring a touch panel in the first or second quarter of 2009, according to sources at panel makers,
in addition to Eee PCs as previously reported.
Asustek's new touch panel notebooks are expected to take advantage of Windows 7, said
the sources. Asustek showed concept notebooks featuring two touch panels during Computex 2008.
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16.10.2008Windows 7 Touch and Browser Scrolling Demo
Browsing with your finger in Windows 7 is going to be a different experience across each browser and Windows 7 system. As demonstrated in this GBM
Shortcut video, the experience will be based upon the type of touch digitizer your system has, whether the system is
Windows 7 Touch logo certified, and what type of browser
you are using.
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01.07.2009Stolen HTC phone with Windows Mobile 6.5 wiped remotely
Last week at the Mobile World Congress, many vendors launched their new Windows Phones and one amongst them was HTC which launched two new models -
HTC Touch Pro2 and HTC Touch Diamond2. A HTC prototype Windows Phone loaded with Windows Mobile 6.5 was pick-pocketed from an executive's pocket
during an evening function at the Mobile World Congress. The stolen Windows Phone is believed to be either a HTC Touch Pro2 or HTC Touch Diamond2 and
was given by Microsoft to Telstra's CEO Sol Trujillo to try and test the new Windows Mobile OS. Sol handed it to an unnamed executive who was then
pick-pocketed.
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23.02.2009Windows 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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04.06.2008BumpTop 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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01.10.2009MS 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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