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New revolution, let your personal computer functions as touch screen


When touch screen technology is widely used in phones, banks and airport, some people put forward that maybe it can also be used on personal computers. The beautiful, fluid front end is ideal for multi touch http://www.multi-touching.com/; only the underlying Windows desktop has the too-small-targets problem.
Using a series of fluid, light finger taps and swipes across the screen on a PC running Windows 8, you can open programs, flip between them, navigate, adjust settings and split the screen between apps, among other functions. It's fresh, efficient and joyous to use—all on a touch-screen tablet. But this, of course, is not some special touch-screen edition of Windows. This is the Windows. For screens that do not respond to touch, Microsoft has built in mouse and keyboard equivalents for each tap and swipe. Yet these methods are second-class citizens, meant to be a crutch during these transitional times—the phase after which, Microsoft bets, touch screen http://www.multi-touching.com/touchscreen/will finally have come to all computers.
You might think, “Touch has been incredibly successful on our phones, tablets, airport kiosks and cash machines. Why not on our computers?” The angle and distance of PC screens are not tough nuts to crack. One day, I am sure that a new generation of PCs will be with touch screen for its convenience functions.

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