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Aug 21 / 5:52am

Windows 7 Touchscreen Functionality

by Evan Kline
I'm not sure how I missed this, but Windows 7 will ship with touch technology built in.  This will allow users to draw pictures on their monitors with their fingers, zoom in and out, skim through slideshows, slide around maps, and even play an onscreen piano.

Of course, this will only work on machines that have touchscreen-enabled screens.  In the past three weeks, five PC manufacturers have announced plans to manufacture touchscreen PCs running Windows 7.  These include Lenovo, Acer, Asustek, Micro-Star, and Sony.  These manufacturers control 60% of the global PC market.