Microsoft unveils Windows 7 Touch Mouse

That will put a smile on Apple fanboys who have already enjoyed a touchpad for over a year now, Microsoft has just unveiled a little more of its Touch Mouse for Windows 7.


Like the Magic Mouse from Apple, it proposes a multi-hull entirely capacitive. The difference with the Apple mouse? That Microsoft is scheduled to humans.

  

Microsoft's announcement clearly: the new mouse offers the best touch experience on Windows ever produced. An argument that takes easily to the truth when trying to remember the small number of haptic devices on the market, even before talk of setbacks that causes the multipoint Windows 7 ...

To afford this property, Microsoft has sought to optimize both its mouse drivers and OS, all competitions for optimum compatibility. And the result seems quite satisfactory as this video.


As you'll no doubt have noticed, the tactile part is delimited by a set of cross on the shell (the question is whether the commercial version will be offered this way or if Microsoft wanted to show us clearly the size of the touch surface of the mouse), and associated recognition software supplied with the mouse, a pre-established set of gestures used to enable specific functions in Windows 7 without a single click:

* Slip a finger while holding any direction will scroll the view of the current window
* A move up - down the thumb can access the next page and previous page (like the side buttons of a standard mouse)
* Slide 2 fingers left or right activates the Aero Snap.
* Slide 2 fingers up or down activates the functions maximize or minimize the window
* Place 3 fingers on the mouse simultaneously will also propose a kind of summary of all open windows in a grid (similar to Mac OS X)

Expected for the month of June, the Touch Mouse is advertised at a price of $ 80 by then hope that the Shelves in W7 presented at CES will have decided the U.S. giant to offer a few updates on the touch capabilities of its OS . [Microsoft]

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