Dell demonstrates multitouch tablet PC
- TAGS:Dell, multi-touch, Tablet PC, Windows XP
- IT TOPICS:Mobile
SANTA BARBARA, CALIF. -- Dell CEO Michael Dell and a Dell designer showed off a multi-touch Tablet PC at Oracle OpenWorld this week. The product runs a Dell-developed multi-touch interface extensible by developers. The multi-touch tablet, Dell said, will become available "in a couple of months."
I've written before in my Computerworld.com column that multi-touch is the future of PC user interfaces, and speculated that the first PC implementation of multi-touch will either come first from Microsoft (which already sells a multi-touch system called Surface) or from Apple (which already sells a multi-touch system called iPhone). I didn't see it coming from Dell.
This video demonstrates that Dell is pushing consumer multi-touch on Windows XP -- that's right, XP, not Vista -- faster than Microsoft is, and also that Michael Dell is no Steve Jobs when it comes to demonstrating new technology.
Thanks to Gizmodo
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