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> <Quote>
> Windows 7 is described by observers from the [Wall Street Journal] as
> having a touch interface recognizable to "anyone who’s ever used an
> iPhone."
>
> [Apple has many patents on touch technology...]
Microsoft had nothing to show, so it put up on display some touchscreen
technology from the 1980s (Xerox). Oh wait. It was /multi/ touch... now
that's 'innovation'... Myrvold and Chaps(C) need many dinners to come up with
the idea of having two inputs from XY coordinates. This also assumed that
everyone will buy touchscreens. Didn't Windows have touchscreen support over
10 years ago?
> Microsoft may also have to explain a more conventional similarity in
> Windows 7 when it arrives as soon as late 2009. The still very young
> operating system features a revamped, more colorful taskbar and the
> conspicuous addition of a Mac OS X-like dock for quickly managing
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Mac OS X just copied the idea from a variety of other desktop environments.
Even the shadow casting.
> apps.
> </Quote>
>
>
http://www.appleinsider.com/articles/08/05/28/windows_7_starts_race_with_apple_to_full_multi_touch_desktop_os.html
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