Microsoft: Windows 7 to Include Multitouch Features

Microsoft is finally opening up about when Windows 7 will ship, but the company continues to share just a few, yet tantalizing details of what the eagerly anticipated OS update will be all about.

The latest tidbit to drop is multitouch interface support. At the Wall St. Journal’s D Conference Tuesday evening in Carlsbad, Calif., company founder and chief software architect Bill Gates and chief executive Steve Ballmer are scheduled to unveil a laptop with a touchscreen that accepts multiple, simultaneous touches. The effect is quite reminiscent of what’s possible with the world’s most popular, commercially available gesture-based interface device: the iPhone .

Officially, Windows 7 is scheduled to ship three years after the general availability of Windows Vista , according to Microsoft. Vista’s business editions launched on Nov. 30, 2006, which would mean the software could ship as early as that date in 2009, with a beta release in advance. Vista’s editions for the home market launched Jan. 29, 2007.

Source- PC Magazine

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Tags: Microsoft, Windows, Windows 7, Windows Vista