Tuesday evening at The Wall Street Journal's D: All Things Digital conference in Carlsbad, Calif., Microsoft announced that the next version of Windows, code named Windows 7, will include support for a multi-touch user interface technology similar to that which powers Apple's iPhone.
With Windows Vista, Microsoft expected the 'wow' of the Aero Glass interface to get XP users to switch to Vista, but for a variety of reasons, that didn't happen. So now that Microsoft is talking about multi-touch in Windows 7, some solution providers wonder if Microsoft is once again putting too many eggs in the user interface basket.
"Microsoft made huge strides with shadow copy in Vista and by building true images backup into the OS, but Aero does absolutely zero for me in terms of adding value," said Brian Williams, president of Advantech NW, a Gresham, Ore.-based solution provider.
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