Filed under: OS Updates, Windows
Microsoft shows off Windows 7 touch features
by Brad Linder Mar 26th 2009
For example, the new Windows taskbar, which has already gotten a lot of attention is designed with large buttons that you can click or drag for thumbnail previews of running programs, which works great on touchscreen devices. The Aero Snap feature makes it easy to resize windows by dragging and dropping them, and the Aero Peek button in the taskbar will be a bit wider and easier to hit with your finger on computers with Touch features.
Microsoft has also retooled the on-screen keyboard so that keys glow when you press them to give users a better sense of feedback. Programs like Internet Explorer 8 have also been designed with touch in mind, with panning and zooming built into the UI.
In a blog post, the Windows 7 team also outlined a number of new touch gestures that can be used throughout the operating system. For instance, you can tap or double click on programs or drag them around just as if you were using a mouse. But you can also press and hold the screen to simulate a right click. Scroll in programs by dragging your finger up or down in the app itself, not on the scrollbar. Pinching your fingers together or pulling them apart zooms in and out of photos or documents. You can rotate images by touching the screen at two points and twisting your fingers.
[via jkkmobile]
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