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A closer look at touch in Windows 7
Microsoft used a big-screen monitor, customized with a touch-sensitive layer, to show some of the upcoming touch features in Windows 7 during the Windows Hardware Engineering Conference in Los Angeles this week. Here's a video of Microsoft's Reed Townsend giving me a demo.
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