28 May 2008

The BBC Has Drunk its Brain

Good to see the BBC with its finger on the pulse of computing, bravely serving up the facts without fear or favour here:

Microsoft's next operating system (OS) will come with multi-touch features as an alternative to the mouse.

Rather like the Hewlett-Packard touchscreen system I used back in the 1980s.
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6 comments:

  1. devnet12:56 pm

    The difference here is the word "multi" which is the new technology Microsoft is 'pioneering'. Yes, touchscreens have existed...but multi-touch screens have not.

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  2. Glyn Moody1:32 pm

    Well, OK, but it hardly seems to justify making it one of the lead stories on the BBC site....

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  3. miker3:36 pm

    Is this a similar statement to 2003's "Bill Gates said that Longhorn will have a unified storage system called WinFS." found at http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/3220017.stm

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  4. Glyn Moody3:37 pm

    Nice one.

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  5. Leslie P. Polzer12:45 pm

    Just a little while ago I thought, “Wow, Glyn Moody always comes up with great headlines to his articles”.

    But this one really tops it, it gave me a huge laugh :)

    Leslie

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  6. Glyn Moody12:50 pm

    Thanks, but be careful: you'll only encourage me to be more outrageous....

    And full disclosure: I nicked it from the Italian phrase "si รจ bevuto il cervello."

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