Microsoft has revealed a new touch-screen operating system that may spell the end for the computer mouse. The test version of the new Windows 7 software will be available for free from next week. It will allow users to control their computers using their finger on a touch sensitive screen, rather than with a keyboard and mouse. The software - which experts say is critical to the future of the company - aims to take on Apple, which has enjoyed huge sales of its Macintosh computers. The launch comes two years after Microsoft released the last major upgrade, Vista, which was branded a disaster by many. Microsoft boss Steve Ballmer, who took over last year from founder Bill Gates, unveiled Windows 7 at a computer show in Las Vegas and announced a free "beta" version was available for download.
Friday, 9 January 2009
It's Here .... Microsoft unveils Windows 7
Source: Daily Mail
Microsoft has revealed a new touch-screen operating system that may spell the end for the computer mouse. The test version of the new Windows 7 software will be available for free from next week. It will allow users to control their computers using their finger on a touch sensitive screen, rather than with a keyboard and mouse. The software - which experts say is critical to the future of the company - aims to take on Apple, which has enjoyed huge sales of its Macintosh computers. The launch comes two years after Microsoft released the last major upgrade, Vista, which was branded a disaster by many. Microsoft boss Steve Ballmer, who took over last year from founder Bill Gates, unveiled Windows 7 at a computer show in Las Vegas and announced a free "beta" version was available for download.
Microsoft has revealed a new touch-screen operating system that may spell the end for the computer mouse. The test version of the new Windows 7 software will be available for free from next week. It will allow users to control their computers using their finger on a touch sensitive screen, rather than with a keyboard and mouse. The software - which experts say is critical to the future of the company - aims to take on Apple, which has enjoyed huge sales of its Macintosh computers. The launch comes two years after Microsoft released the last major upgrade, Vista, which was branded a disaster by many. Microsoft boss Steve Ballmer, who took over last year from founder Bill Gates, unveiled Windows 7 at a computer show in Las Vegas and announced a free "beta" version was available for download.
