Windows 7 has multitouch but looks like Vista
Microsoft wants us all to believe that Windows 7 will be like the second coming but the fact is that it won’t, Vista was supposed to be that and the company failed. It says consumers should upgrade to Vista because it’s more or less the same as Vista which may be the first true thing Redmond has said.
Okay, sure, Windows 7 has multitouch and the dev team worked with the folks from the Microsoft Surface team and some of those features were demonstrated to Engadget and others. Couldn’t that feature just be added to Vista with a software update or service pack? Maybe it could but Microsoft would rather have consumers/businesses fork over another $350 for it.
It won’t do much good for laptops without touchscreens, you will need a touchscreen to take full advantage of the multitouch features and even that may be limited by the touchscreen technology used in the display.
From the looks of things the UI is pretty much the same and there were a few changes to the taskbar but nothing drastic.
At this point it’s still a very incomplete operating system where features are just being tested and demonstrated but I can’t see that many changes in store for Windows 7. It will probably be more of adding and improving features in Vista than it will be a completely new operating system.
Whatever price Microsoft decides to charge for it, unless it follows Apple pricing scheme, won’t be worth it. The company is having the problem of convincing users to migrate to Vista from XP, how will it manage convincing the masses that Windows 7 is so much better than Vista when there are few changes in store?
By the time Windows 7 rolls around, Vista will be the operating system of choice and there may even be service pack 2 out at which point it may/will have matured to the point of Windows XP and I doubt most of us will want to move over to Windows 7.
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