Linked by Thom Holwerda on Wed 28th May 2008 19:09 UTC
Yesterday, during the opening hours of the D6 conference, Walt Mossberg and Kara Swisher jointly interviewed Steve Ballmer and Bill Gates. While the interview dealt mostly with the past, Yahoo, and a bit of Vista, by far the most interesting part was the first ever public appearance of Vista's successor: Windows 7. Earlier today, the team behind D6 posted a video of the demonstration, which was conducted by Microsoft's Julie Larson-Green. From a graphical user interface point of view, there were some interesting things in there.
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RE: Still waiting for an application...
by sbergman27 on Wed 28th May 2008 20:45
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I agree. Then again, I'm still waiting for 3D on the desktop to reveal advantages which are not of the "reaching" nature.
I suspect that we will be well into the "Touchiz Fusion" era before anything solid shows up. But solutions in search of a problem are like that. They eventually find one, if there is really any benefit to them. ;-)
RE[2]: Still waiting for an application...
by orestes on Wed 28th May 2008 20:55
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The advantage of 3d accelerated desktops is offloading the processing load to your graphics card from your main processor. That and it can make remote desktop type apps vastly more efficient.
I will agree most of the user visible effects are cute toys and nothing more though
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RE: Still waiting for an application...
by netpython on Thu 29th May 2008 20:28
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RE: Still waiting for an application...
by jayson.knight on Thu 29th May 2008 22:30
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Every multitouch demo trots out the same silly demos. Throwing photos around, resizing them. Well no one does this. The mouse is much more accurate at moving things around, and the mouse wheel is much better at zooming.
It's a demo Beavis...something that anyone looking at it for 10 seconds can easily grasp and understand. It'll be up to application developers to make useful software that will run on it, and I'm sure many such as myself are already cooking up some great ideas.
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Every multitouch demo trots out the same silly demos. Throwing photos around, resizing them. Well no one does this. The mouse is much more accurate at moving things around, and the mouse wheel is much better at zooming.
Same with the Google Earth demo (or whatever microsoft decided to call their knockoff). There's nothing wrong with the mouse here. It's much easier to use the mouse+mouse wheel to zoom around on a globe than it is to use gestures.
Waving around water? On-screen piano? Please.. These are neat toys, but not anything useful.
Of course these things are nice on a public access kiosk and handhelds, but not for the traditional laptops and desktops, and those aren't being replaced anytime soon.