Looks like Microsoft have decided they’ve had sufficient of hearing that the iPhone has “killed” traditional touchscreens.  Earlier that week, Microsoft software experiment engineer Hilton Locke spilt a tidbit about Windows Mobile 7, the follow-up to Vista:

“whether you are impressed by the “touch features” in the iPhone, you’ll be blown away by what’s coming in Windows 7″ Hilton Locke, TabBlogger

It looks as though Microsoft are plus doing their own work with capacitative displays, the sort that Apple use in the iPhone and iPod Touch; in fact

one has shown up in Dell’s Latitude XT Tablet PC, which the manufacturer is calling the “forerunner to emerging multi-touch capabilities”.  Ever since the iPhone launched and gathered dropped-jaws by the bucket load by its incredibly intuitive interface, the Mac faithful have been begging for the same touchscreen technology to be included in a MacBook or MacTablet; could Microsoft beat them to it?

See Dell’s capacitive interface in action, after the cut…

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Original post by Chris Davies