Digital Home Thoughts: GottaBeMobile Shows Off Multi-Touch in Windows 7

"These applications are a lot of fun, once you figure out how to play them. They make multi-touch on a Windows 7 touch computer come alive. I did this quick demo on my Dell Latitude XT running build 7100 and the latest multi-touch drivers from N-Trig. Except for a lack of help files to give me some pointers, and my having difficulty figuring a few of the games out, I’ve had a lot of fun playing with these applications over the past several weeks."

Microsoft is releasing the Microsoft Touch Pack for Windows 7 which includes a whole bunch of goodies. GottaBeMobile demonstrates some of the neat features in a video though they're mostly showcase programs, except Microsoft Surface Globe. As pretty as multi-touch is, and this definitely gives a taste of Surface, I'm not sold on all the hype surrounding multi-touch. It has uses as a consuming-type interface, but I spend a lot of my time with the keyboard and sadly, I haven't found anything to match it yet. That and I can just imagine how often I will need to clean the screen to keep fingerprints off once multi-touch becomes a standard.