Microsoft plans to push
multi-touch interfaces in a big way with Windows 7. At the Wall Street Journal's All Things Digital conference yesterday evening, Microsoft discussed some of the progress it has made on its next operating system, and it showed the multi-touch functionality in action:
Video: Multi-Touch in Windows 7
Microsoft wants to see multi-touch functionality on "a wide variety of Windows notebooks, in all-in-one PC's, as well as in external monitors." That vision may come true in 2010, when Microsoft plans to complete work on Windows 7.