The Multi-Touch Technology in Windows 7

Multi-touch is a method of interacting with a computer screen or smartphone using your fingers, instead of using a mouse or a keyboard. The multi-touch lets the user to use the computer or device by with two or more fingers

Microsoft windows 7 has the multi-touch technology, which allows you to browse online newspapers, flick through photo albums, and shuffle files and folders by using just your fingers on the desktop.

The tool allows you to zoom by placing two fingers on the screen of a multi touch-compatible PC and spreading them apart. To right-click a file you need to touch it with one finger and tap the screen with a second.

However, Touch feature in Microsoft Windows 7 is available only in the Home Premium, Professional, and Ultimate editions of Windows 7. Apart from that the start menu and taskbar in the new Windows 7 sport larger, fingertip-friendly icons. Not only that, all your favorite Windows 7 programs are also touch-ready. You can also finger paint in Paint featured in the Windows 7.

Microsoft Windows 7 is also equipped with handwriting recognition technology, which is the ability of a computer to receive and interpret intelligible handwritten input from various sources. Windows media center has also been touch optimized. In order to make efficient use of the Windows 7, Microsoft has devised this technology that enable you to browse websites that are compact and not easy to go through with a mouse. Buttons provided in the Windows 7 are slightly wider to accommodate being pressed with a finger in touch-enabled displays including touch screens, tablet PCs, etc.