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Tom Warren   on 30 October 2008 - 22:16 · 7 comments & 5994 views

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So it's the last day of PDC today and yesterday I got the chance to speak to Andrew Whiddett, Vice President of Interactive Technology, regarding his companies development for the Microsoft Surface and Windows 7 Touch platforms.

Whiddett kindly demonstrated his application for us and explained how it responds to the users touch. The application displays a library of pictures and can be linked to the Surface computer to pull images onto the big screen.


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#1 +what on 30 Oct 2008 - 22:20
He could have summed up that whole demonstration by saying "it's like the iPhone".
#2 Antaris on 30 Oct 2008 - 22:22
All WPF based?

It's nice to see some decent UI stuff starting to appear, I still feel WPF isn't being adopted by the masses properly yet...
#3 cJr. on 30 Oct 2008 - 22:45
Agreed, Antaris! Even Microsoft don't use WPF as much as they should in their own applications!

The new touch features look really good! I wish I could afford this sort of stuff!



Last edited by cJr. on 30 Oct 2008 - 22:51
(2 replies) #4 Pimpster on 03 Nov 2008 - 02:24
like the iphone but with a lot of lag.
#4.1 MioTheGreat on 05 Nov 2008 - 03:25
"but with a lot of lag"?

Do you actually own an iPhone?

My iPod Touch has got to be one of the laggiest and unresponsive electronic devices I've ever owned. Any time I go to pinch or expand something, it takes forever AND generally seems to think that I've let go mid gesture, meaning that I have to do any zoom or shrink I want to do on the device in like 5 separate steps.
#4.2 +veritas310 on 18 Dec 2008 - 04:41
I actually own an iPhone and have since the day it came out. Have never once had a lag issue in terms of pinching to shrink/stretch. An occasional application lag but nothing more than that. Maybe you have a buggy phone, don't generalize that issue.
#5 mindscape on 03 Nov 2008 - 21:27
Does anyone know what kind of monitor/comp he demoed that on?

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