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Hooch Tan
05-28-2009, 10:00 PM
<div class='os_post_top_link'><a href='http://www.gottabemobile.com/2009/05/27/gbm-inkshow-microsoft-touch-pack-for-windows-7/' target='_blank'>http://www.gottabemobile.com/2009/0...-for-windows-7/</a><br /><br /></div><p><em>"These applications are a lot of fun, once you figure out how to play them. They make multi-touch on a Windows 7 touch computer come alive. I did this quick demo on my Dell Latitude XT running build 7100 and the latest multi-touch drivers from N-Trig. Except for a lack of help files to give me some pointers, and my having difficulty figuring a few of the games out, I&rsquo;ve had a lot of fun playing with these applications over the past several weeks."</em></p><p><img src="http://images.thoughtsmedia.com/resizer/thumbs/size/600/dht/auto/1243538899.usr20447.jpg" style="border: 0;" /></p><p>Microsoft is releasing the Microsoft Touch Pack for Windows 7 which includes a whole bunch of goodies.&nbsp; GottaBeMobile demonstrates some of the neat features in a video though they're mostly showcase programs, except Microsoft Surface Globe.&nbsp; As pretty as multi-touch is, and this definitely gives a taste of Surface, I'm not sold on all the hype surrounding multi-touch.&nbsp; It has uses as a consuming-type interface, but I spend a lot of my time with the keyboard and sadly, I haven't found anything to match it yet.&nbsp; That and I can just imagine how often I will need to clean the screen to keep fingerprints off once multi-touch becomes a standard.</p><p>&nbsp;</p>