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Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates claims that windows 7, the successor to the much criticized windows Vista, will come with multi-touch features that will ultimately replace the mouse. Microsoft 7 is due to be released in 2010 and will come with a touch screen interface that will allow users to trace routes on maps, enlarge and shrink photos, paint pictures or play the piano.
Bill Gates, at the All Things Digital Conference in San Diego, remarked that with the launch of Windows 7, the way one interacts with the system will change dramatically. He further added that today almost all interaction is mouse-keyboard, but over the years to come the role of speech, vision, ink will be huge. Giving company to Gates was chief executive Steve Ballmer, who described the multi-touch screen demonstration as ‘just a smallest snippet’ of Windows 7. Ballmer further remarked that he is expecting Windows 7 to do better than Windows Vista.
