Here is a rant about out MS is unable to drive the new technology. Link

As you can see, it is a HP computer with touch screen, plus a touch enabled software. But here is the important part. The touch enabled software is not from MS, but from HP. This is certainly not a good thing. MS used to be the one offering great experience and let the manufacture build the hardware for it, like Windows Media Center and Tablet PC. It is what Windows is all about. Provide a satisfying OS, so manufacture can focus on hardware rather than software. But now, HP has to make their own software to be competitive to the new touch era. If surface technology can be pushed earlier, HP wouldn't have to spend time on this. Maybe they will still do it, but instead of a conflicting technology, it will be a supporting technology.

 

Another thing is Window Mobile.

HTC themselves has to develop their own touch interface to catchup with iPhone. I really think this is a bad way to drive Windows platform. Even worse, there is no plan for a new Window Mobile OS that catch up with current technology. Still that ugly GUI, tiny font, tiny scroll bar, and other legacy experience. I know backward compatibility is important, but it is not business servers need to run super old software.

 

 

Windows 7 is coming, I hope they deliver something really fancy. Multi-touch is not going to cut it. Overall experience is more important, especially we are still using mouse and keyboard most of the time. Windows really need some flare now. And I certainly hope Window Mobile can start catching up after Win7 is released. Zune is a really good device, why didn't they make a Zune Phone or upgrade Windows Mobile to Zune experience? Well, so far, MS is getting more organized from previous mess. Finally Window Live no longer fights with Windows on Win7. PDC is coming. Hope MS can really pull it off.