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Microsoft on Wednesday released more details on the thinking behind the much-touted touch features of Windows 7.
The company said it continues to tweak the way gestures work as it gets more feedback from the beta version of Windows 7, released in January.
The recognition engine used by Windows 7's earlier incarnation - missing many quickly performed gestures - has been updated.
"We tuned the gesture detection engine with sample gesture input provided by real people using touch in pre-release builds," Microsoft said in a blog posting on Wednesday. "These tuned gestures are what you will see in the [release candidate] build."
The company also highlighted which touch-capable machines already in the market support the pre-release versions of Windows 7, namely HP's TouchSmart All-in-One PCs (IQ500 series & IQ800 series), its TouchSmart tx2 Tablet PC, and Dell's Latitude XT or XT2 Tablet PC.
