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Earlier today during its event in San Francisco,
Microsoft played a video detailing how its coming
Windows 10 operating system will handle a fusion of
touch, and more traditional mouse-based input. I
filmed a bootleg copy, but Microsoft just published a
more polished version, so you are in luck.
Handling both touch and mouse input is a rough line
to walk, given that computing form factors are often
based with a focus on one form of input more
than the other — this is one, of several reasons, why
Windows 8 has struggled. Windows 10 will have a
focus on both handling standard mouse and keyboard
inputs, touch, and everything up and down from
smartphones to servers.
Windows 10 is Microsoft’s apparent bid at bringing its
platform under a single roof. They are still building
it. Don’t expect what you see in the above to break
out in tomorrow’s technical preview.
Peter Bright of Ars Technica said it well:
Windows 10 will switch modes depending on how
it’s being used. Continuum switches the system
behavior depending on what hardware is
available, and it will dynamically change the
interface paradigm as that hardware changes. So
plug the keyboard into your Surface Pro 3 and it’ll
switch from touch-oriented to mouse and
keyboard-oriented.
If Microsoft can pull this off — today it only showed
the shortest of demos — it will have built something
approaching a truly flexible operating system that
could, perhaps, work from both here to there, and
back again. In the Baggins sense, naturally
Source: techcrunch.com/2014/09/30/heres-how-windows-10-will-make-your-mouse-and-fingers-get-along/