Minority Report: Multi-touch features in Windows 7
June 2nd, 2008 | 
Author: Remember the movie Minority Report? It starred Tom Cruise as the leader of a “pre-crime” police unit in the future that was responsible for stopping murders before they happened. Pyschics known as “The Precogs” were able to see visions of murders that were about to happen, and images from those visions appeared on a big glass screen. Mr. Cruise could manipulate these images with his hands in order to figure out where and when the crime would take place so he could prevent the killings.
I’m testing your memory because I received the latest WServerNews email the other day and learned that Microsoft demonstrated the new Multi-Touch features that will be part of their next version, currently named Windows 7. Check out this video of the demo.
Video: Multi-Touch in Windows 7
For more about the Multi-Touch features and the demo Microsoft gave go to the Windows Vista Team Blog post Microsoft demonstrates Multi-touch.
I’m left wondering if “The Precogs” can predict which virtualization platform will be the first to make the Multi-Touch features possible when using a remote console to a virtual machine running Windows 7?! 
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