Comments on: GBM InkShow: Windows 7 Beta 1 Multi-Touch Video

By: Brendan

Brendan — Tue, 27 Jan 2009 22:18:53 +0000

One nifty feature that should help out with touch is that if you drag the window to touch the top of the screen, it will maximize. And if you want to restore it you just have to pull it away from away from the top. This is handy for moving maximized apps between two monitors.

By: Mike

Mike — Tue, 27 Jan 2009 14:55:32 +0000

The window controls can easily be resized. Also, some of Rob’s trouble came, I think, from there being no support behind the screen. You’ll see tradeshow people always encourage testers to put the touch device down on a hard surface.

You can see that he has the most trouble at the top of the screen where his leverage to move the screen-lid is greatest. When he touches near the bottom he has much better results.

By: Rob Bushway

Rob Bushway — Sat, 17 Jan 2009 00:54:19 +0000

unfortunately, the pen is not supported that win 7 driver. You’ll need to install the non-beta version to get pen working.

By: tipopilota

tipopilota — Fri, 16 Jan 2009 23:20:53 +0000

How do we get the pen to work once we install the ntrig driver??????????

By: n

Fri, 16 Jan 2009 03:44:31 +0000

Please Please Please, someone tell all the developers of touchscreen software how big a persons finger is!

It makes me cringe every time i see a person try to close a program by clicking on that tiny little X and missing it the first 4 times.

All they need to do is make it bigger. Or set it up to magnify the button when your finger gets close.
Its so Obvious. Please Please Please microsoft, dell, whoever,stop this nonsense.

By: Gulii

Gulii — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 13:11:16 +0000

Pen not works :((((

By: Matze

Matze — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 22:51:17 +0000

After all a nice comparison between before an after the update. Thx for that, good job, nice vid.

By: Ben

Ben — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 21:56:59 +0000

This still shows that many of the UI elements in windows are too small for fingers–Rob had a heck of a time with that minimize button. I think people will be much less inclined to use touch for anything serious when they feel that it’s hard to click with confidence. I think that’s the main difference between UIs like on the iPhone and windows. Windows needs to address this, in my opinion, if they are taking touch seriously. Their half-way approach to some of these new input methods, like the stylus, might be one reason for their apparent failure. Sometimes it just feels like these new input methods are just laid on top as an afterthought.

By: John Harrison

John Harrison — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 21:53:41 +0000

Hello, thanks for the Inkshow, I have just installed the N-Trig update myself, I have gain auto-rotate but lost pen support, I like the device, but disappointed it did not work out of the box, rotate did not work (XP), again thanks.