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Microsoft’s Digidesk Shows What Multitouch Can Really Do

Posted May 22, 2007 10:00 AM by Gregory Ng
Categories: Microsoft Videos Touchscreen 

We know Steve, you have told us a million times. The iPhone will kick ass for business. But even if the multi-touch display keyboard works better than people fear, will it be big enough or robust enough to truly do business?

Park your reservations about anything Microsoft at the door because once you see this demonstration, your jaw might hit the floor. Here is Microsoft’s Center for Information’s concept demonstrated at the Convergence 2007 conference.

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  1. Wow, I guess Microsoft still has some tricks up their sleeves. I think the entry of multi-touch technology is going to be a turning point for all personal computers. Who knows, maybe eventually we won’t even use keyboards.

    Posted by bmai on May 22, 2007 12:51 PM

  2. As a demonstration of multi-touch this is pretty poor. They put in a lot of flashy graphics and a rather contrived example (that really isn’t very realistic in the real world) But when you look at the technology involved, very little of it is really that interesting. I mean what did they really demo? A scanner, a large desk with 2 large touch screens, some multi-touch capabilities, and cool looking software.
    The only multitouch gesture they showed was the ability to rotate the scanned document. If you want to see some really interesting multi-touch demos see these two videos:

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zwGAKUForhM
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9zGDNFpOMcA

    Posted by jbella on May 23, 2007 1:32 PM

  3. come on. it’s prototype of what be or be not commercial product within years to come. how can you compare it with iphone which be out in 3 weeks?

    by the way multi-touch works terribly.

    p.s. sorry for my english.

    Posted by Artsiom on May 24, 2007 6:20 AM

  4. What is cool about this demo? Nothing! That youtube video linked by jbella is a lot more impressive.

    What do you think Steve Jobs will think of this Microsoft video if you show it to him?

    Posted by What? on May 25, 2007 12:42 AM

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