However, many also said that the owner is a bit PC Windows 7 akan benar-benar akan reach their touch screen. Therefore, to use the fingers in the way of a screen in support of technology – something which often add $ 100 or more for the cost of a PC.
As a result, many expect touch-capable computer is only a small fraction of the market for desktop and notebook computers, and even after Windows 7 arrived in the store on October 22.
“We thought that 5 percent to 10 percent by 2010,” said IDC analyst Richard Shim. Shim and say that, unless circumstances change, the rate is not likely to increase in significantly in the coming years.
Part of the problem is that there is no killer application to communicate on the PC, even if that put a finger on the screen has become the de facto mobile phone market in the cold.
Not that the interest does not sell the touch screen device. Hewlett-Packard introduced its TouchSmart all-in-one in 2007. The company has hit some models, including desktops and laptops. Have a Dell Latitude company, and also aims to add all-in-One with optional touchscreen.
Windows 7 and once on the market, others will no doubt, especially as Microsoft has done a lot of work. Shim said he expects almost all major decisions have at least one model of PC Touch Screen Windows 7 when it launched in the fall. Monitor the decision is also expected to offer a touch screen that can plug into a standard PC.
“Touch to wake up,” Senior Vice President of Microsoft Bill Veghte said in an interview last week. “We’ll see in the all-in-people and we will see in some laptops and you will see in the PC market .
But only the truly akan obtain models that are sold is another issue. Some reports indicate that the low cost market NETBOOK can actually see it take the faster, given their smaller (and therefore cheaper to activate the touch) screen and the fact that people often use anywhere without the mouse.
Although Microsoft provides a standard interface for gestures on Windows 7, there was indeed a part of the decision that the computer can be used to build a computer can not afford.
New Zealand NextWindow technology optical sensor which is mounted in a small corner at the top of the screen and allows the fingers position will be taken. It is the company behind the technology used in the all-in-One HP and Dell.
N-Trig Israel, while using capacitive resistance, the type of technology used on the iPhone to read the comments of the finger. It combines the two technologies also allow input from a stylus. Its technology is used in laptops, HP and Dell, and N-Trig has also received funding from Microsoft.
NextWindow technology requires no special coating or film on the glass, which can see the screen as bright as the non-touch screen. However, due to a certain depth to the screen, not suitable as a day on the notebook.
Touch is not really a new idea for Windows, although Windows 7 is the first support with two fingers simultaneously. In the early days of Vista, when it was still code-named Longhorn, Microsoft has given the tablet PC market expanded to include the touch-enabled device.
“I’m not sure that he never delivered on the promise,” said CEO Al Monro NextWindow. “This is not really one of the (software) to return. “
Although this continues to be a challenge, Monro note that the market has changed – including the Apple iPhone.
“It really brought to the button in the main,” said Monro.
There is also a break psychological barriers, Monro, that the computer screen to avoid this is to happen on the fingers. NextWindow origin do great things for the touch screen, such as kiosks. Not long ago, he says, companies have to put the signs near the facility, which said: “I am a touch screen. Touch me. “
“You really scream it out,” he said. “Now the only hope is.”
The question now is whether the software in action on the PC side to embrace the feel the same way as those who design software for the iPhone has been completed.
As is often the case with new technologies is a kind of chicken and egg problem, Monro admitted. Software manufacturers do not take the time to adopt because the touch interface is not quite sold PC touchscreen, while the PC is difficult to sell because there is not enough software.
Monro said it does not yet feel that if the cycle is broken. “People will not buy a touch screen, but there are many things (they can).”
In part, Microsoft has made some things. With the touch supports the operating system, most applications of tactile control should provide at least the basic functions such as window size, move, and move the cursor.
