Do me a favour…

Steve Jobs - “Good Artists Copy, Great Artists Steal”

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AxatrXaHExU

So why instead of Microsoft copying the iPhone interface, they do not just add gesture recognition? Wouldn’t Touchless be better than Touch computing? Think of controlling your TV screen and Media Center from your sofa without a remote..

Cool new features in the next version of Windows (see TechCrunch) which Bill Gates has announced for next year (see an older post from Mary-Jo Foley)….

At All Things Digital’s D6 conference, Windows 7, Microsoft’s next operating system showed some of its touchscreen skills. The OS is not expected to be released until 2010, but the new multi-touch functionality, as seen on Microsoft’s Surface compu…

Microsoft’s shameless copying of the OS X GUI is pathetic.

As usual, Microsoft is just tauting their poor shadow of what is really a much better Apple technology. I can already smell the steaming pile of dung that will be the “.NET 4.0″ API, with a flood of new extensions for Multi-touch which will obviously just slow things down more, while making it just as easy as rewriting the whole application to make it work with Multi-touch. Result: no one will use it, and it will be stuck with only a few Microsoft products and a few “partner” products. It will die quietly two or three years after release. Nothing more.

…its a big iphone you cant call on….so

chris @ http://www.gofrostfire.com

http://www.apple.com/macbookair/features.html

OS X has been designed from the get-go to migrate into full-screen multi-touch. Just look at the way things drag and drop off of the Dock on OS X. Look at the interaction with spring-loaded folders and CoverFlow for instance. All that eye-candy that PC-lovers made fun of is just getting things ready for Multi-Touch on OS X.

The difference with Windows 7 is that Microsoft will have had a lot less experience coding that aspect of the interface compared with Apple that’s been doing it for years.

If Windows 7 has multi-touch capabilities and they only make their own Windows Office Products use this function, then Google Docs could be toast -Moe Glitz

Oh really, Moe? I suppose that’s because you must be sold on Multi-Touch being a great way to interact with a Word document. Other than flipping through pages and moving stuff around the screen, how exactly is Multi-Touch going to be useful for writing anything?.

This is hardly a Google-killer. Especially when you consider that Apple and Google are basically collaborating on products left and right — and Apple is already the leader in deploying Multi-Touch technology as it already has multi-touch with the iPhone and MacBook Pro.