Big and Small Microsoft Plans

In the video, you can contemplate the implementation of the multitouch interface in the new OS from Microsoft - “Windows 7”, the release of which is expected in 2010. The next version of Windows will be based on the core of Windows Server 2008. As is the case with the stylus for portable devices, we are predicted the death of the mouse. All manipulations will be carried out, as they say, with bare hands.


The other day, Bill Gates and Steve Ballmer showed the capabilities of the new operating system. The demonstration was held at the annual conference D: All Things Digital. You can read more about this demonstration, for example, here .
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Yesterday, Steve Ballmer gave a short interview to the Vedomosti newspaper

about new gadgets
- This year we will begin deliveries of the Surface PC (a touchscreen computer built into a small table. - Vedomosti). So yes, we will continue to develop new devices.

about the portable player market
- We just have not found a formula that would allow us to achieve the same success as Apple.

about the future of IT
- You came to the interview and took the paper with you [to make notes]. In ten years everything will be on electronic screens that will be as thin and light as paper and connected to the Internet. You will make notes on them, and your editor, if he wants, will be able to watch [on these screens] and instantly send you his comments.

Full interview here