Windows 7 Official Release Video

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In preparation for the D Conference, an annual event hosted by the Wall Street Journal, Microsoft has revealed some new information about the operating system through its bloggers, as well as the first official video demoing Windows 7.

The video covers Windows 7's Multitouch capabilities in various applications; with Multitouch the touch-screen is capable of recognizing multiple, simultaneous touches, similar to Microsoft Surface but on a smaller scale. The first laptop to be shown featuring this technology is demoed in the video and will also be shown by Bill Gates and Steve Ballmer during the conference.

Chris Flores, director of Windows Client Communications, blogged about the upcoming operating system's kernel. Contrary to rumors, Chris says, Windows 7 will not be using a new kernel. Instead the Windows Vista kernel will be refined and reused. One of the major design goals is for the kernel not to become bloated but rather "run on the recommended hardware we specified for Windows Vista and that the applications and devices that work with Windows Vista will be compatible with Windows," wrote Chris.

Chris also confirmed that Windows 7 is on track and expected to be released in approximately three years from the general availability of Windows Vista. He also added that beta releases are upcoming.

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[Rakin2008]

I have always hated touch screens...they never really work right!

[ddaggy]

yay more dirty fingerprints on my monitor ...NO!!

[BoogsterSU]

Probably the same touchscreen technology as the original Microsoft Surface.

[aldosalomoni]

immagine how muchjdoes that cost.

[DJLeMarque]

Who do they have a picturee with a boy that ate shit?

[rattymcdj]

i have the hp with touch and vista so i dont see the big deal it dosent seem much different

[LA33R]

its basically windows vista with touch screen options...

well hp already brought a laptop with touch screen and stuff......

thats no leap to new computing boundries

[Muzteeg4m3]

i seen all these apps on the iphone ROFL

[silntdoogood]

Thats nice and all, but if you talk to anyone at circuit citys return depo. those screens are useless, and eveything showed looks relitivly useless.

[Unkn0wnGuy]

Anyone know if they changed the command window at all? It would be nice if Windows had a terminal as powerful as linux. I find myself using the command window from time to time and it's absolutely pathetic.

[fuggigal1]

Well, i think that this concept is great. Its bringing PCs to a new level, just like how apple did to the phones using the iphone and ipod touch. We should see more support for such features in the future like in photoshop.